Jay Loeffler, MD, FACR, FASTRO Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

Jay S. Loeffler, M.D., is an honors graduate of both Williams College and of Brown University School of Medicine. Dr. Loeffler completed his radiation oncology training at the Harvard Joint Center for Radiation Therapy where he served as Chief Resident in 1985-1986 after completing a year of post-doctorial fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health Radiobiology Laboratory with Dr. Jack Little. Since 1986 he has served on the faculty at Harvard Medical initially at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He also served as Director of the Brain Tumor Center at BWH, DFCI and Children’s Hospital from 1988-1996. He was recruited to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1996 as Director of the Northeast Proton Therapy Center. He served as the Andreas Soriano Professor and is currently the Herman and Joan Suit Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology since 2000.

Dr. Loeffler is an authority on the treatment of benign and malignant brain tumors. He is an author of over 235 peer reviewed publications, 170 book chapters and review articles and co-editor of 9 textbooks in the fields of radiation oncology and neuro-oncology including his most recent book Human Radiation Injury by Lippincott. He has served as an investigator on a program project grant from the NCI concerning proton therapy and is currently a section co-leader of a Specialized Programs in Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in glioblastoma from the NCI. He has served on the Editorial Boards of 8 peer-reviewed journals including Nature Oncology. He has served as a Visiting Professor for over 40 universities within the US and abroad. Dr. Loeffler is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, the American Society of Radiation Oncology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.