Description
Brachytherapy Fellowship
The 1-year Brachytherapy Fellowship is meant to provide fellows additional technical skills and experience in brachytherapy. Utilizing High-Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy, incoming fellows will have an opportunity to participate in over 250 cases per year, gaining proficiency in prostate and gynecologic brachytherapy while encountering extraordinary experiences in head and neck, skin, and sarcoma.
Fellows will participate in intracavitary and interstitial techniques during open procedures and/or the use of ultrasound guidance. Planning is commonly CT-based, with MRI fusion and fluoroscopic imaging capabilities to facilitate target delineation. The HDR brachytherapy suite offers broad implementation of treatment for almost all disease sites.
Intracavitary/interstitial brachytherapy training for gynecologic malignancies include experience with standard tandem ovoid, tandem & ring, Vienna/Utrecht/Venezia based hybrid interstitial implants, double tandem, and single/multi-channel cylinder.
Interstitial brachytherapy training for prostate cancer includes ultrasound guided implant, fiducial, and hydrogel spacer placement.
Surface brachytherapy training for skin cancers include experience with Valencia applicators, Freiburg flaps and custom molds.
Interstitial brachytherapy for soft-tissue sarcoma includes intraoperative trocar-based implants in both the staged and immediate reconstruction settings.
Interstitial brachytherapy for head/neck cancer includes definitive implants in the lip, oral cavity, oropharynx, and neck.
Goals and Objectives:
Expand knowledge of the indications for brachytherapy through clinical experience, formal lecture series and journal club, across a broad range of malignancies including prostate cancer, gynecologic cancers, head and neck cancers, skin cancers, and sarcomas.
Develop procedural skills to perform brachytherapy treatments safely and effectively for patients.
Participate in brachytherapy related research, integrating innovative techniques and technology (e.g. radiomics, genomics, etc.), with the goal of advancing the field forward.
Advanced Radiation Oncology Research Fellowship
The 1-year Advanced Radiation Oncology Research Fellowship is designed to give trainees expertise in unique research opportunities available in the Moffitt Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology including the personalization of radiotherapy using genomic and radiomic signatures, novel combinations of radiation therapy and systemic therapy, and adaptive radiation therapy. Specific research projects are flexible and can be conducted with mentorship from departmental faculty or faculty from across the institution.
Moffitt Cancer Center was a founding member of the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN) along with The Ohio State University. The partnership now involves 16 additional leading cancer centers. Through Moffitt’s Total Cancer Care (TCC) Database, all patient information, imaging, tumor samples, genetic information, treatment information, and outcomes are available to researchers in a central repository.
Departmental research is funded through multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Prostate Cancer Research Foundation as well as many other intramural and extramural agencies. The Department has 25 active clinical trials accruing patients across all disease sites with numerous investigator-initiated trials funded through industry partnerships and internal/external grant agencies.
In addition to conducting research, trainees will do clinical rotations based on their preference.
It is expected that during the year fellows will:
Publish manuscripts and present research findings at national conferences
Develop skills in clinical trial design
Attend lecture series, journal clubs, and grand rounds, across a broad range of malignancies
Moffitt Cancer Center is an NCI- Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). The Department of Radiation Oncology includes 30 clinical radiation oncology faculty, 30 medical physicists, a radiation oncology residency, radiation physics residency, and the department boasts one of the highest patient volumes in the country.
Number of Positions:
2
Eligibility:
Applicants must have completed an accredited Radiation Oncology residency program. Foreign medical graduates are encouraged to apply, but must be ECFMG-certified.
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Statement
2 Letters of Recommendation
USMLE Results
Requirements
Number of Positions:
2
Eligibility:
Applicants must have completed an accredited Radiation Oncology residency program. Foreign medical graduates are encouraged to apply, but must be ECFMG-certified.
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Statement
2 Letters of Recommendation
USMLE Results
Applications are due by October 1, 2025. The fellowship will begin July 1st, 2026. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Please submit application materials to [email protected] or mail to:
Moffitt Cancer Center
Attn: Angie Courtney
12902 Magnolia Dr.
MCC-GME
Tampa, FL 33612
For more information, please contact:
Fellowship Directors:
Arash Naghavi, MD, MS
[email protected]
Brachytherapy Fellowship Director
12902 USF Magnolia Drive, MCC-Rad Onc
Tampa, FL 33612
Ph: 813-745-3547
Kamran A. Ahmed, MD
ARO Fellowship Director
12902 USF Magnolia Drive, MCC-Rad Onc
Tampa, FL 33612
Ph: 813-745-8517
