He is a peer review editor for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Physics and Biology and the International Journal of Particle Therapy. Chang is the principal investigator for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) research program. He ecently served as the Director of Clinical Research and Education at Northwestern Medicine’s Proton Center in Chicago, Illinois and subsequently at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. After completing his medical school at the University of Michigan and residency at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined Radiation Oncology Consultants (ROC), where he has been in private practice since 2000. Chang is the Medical Director, Clinical Research and Education for Oklahoma Proton Center and also serves as the Head & Neck Disease Site committee chair for PCG. She has also authored over 120 articles and chapters and is an active member of ASTRO, ASCO, PROS, SIOP and serves on the American Board of Radiology to develop both the written and oral board examinations.ĭr. She also participates in collaborative research with the Children’s Oncology Group, sitting on the Brain Tumor and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committees, and is leading an NCI/MGH-sponsored multi-institutional registry enrolling pediatric patients treated with modern proton and photon radiotherapy and have accrued over 2600 patients. Yock is the Primary Investigator of multiple pediatric protocols and she holds grant funding from a variety of sources including the NCI. Her research has focused on the role of proton radiotherapy in pediatric cancer and both its power to mitigate late effects in our childhood cancer survivors, but also its potential pitfalls.
Yock’s research career has focused on measuring health outcomes to further improve upon cure rates and the quality of the survivorship in pediatric cancer patients and applying big data principals to research repositories. Her clinical practice is now comprised mostly of pediatric patients and survivors of childhood cancer. Her residency was at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School and acquired a Masters in Community Health as a Fulbright Scholar from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Yock is the Director of Pediatric Radiation Oncology and Chair of the Quality Improvement Committee in Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor at Harvard Medical School.
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