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About Xuanfeng Ding, Ph.D., DABR

Dr. Xuanfeng (Leo) Ding received his Ph.D. from Wake Forest University and residency training from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014, he participated in the first PBS compact system commissioning, the IBA ProteusONE in Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Louisiana.
In 2015, Dr. Ding joined Beaumont Proton Therapy Center as the lead proton physicist and assistant professor. He is the principle investigator of several institutional and industry research grants and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, two book chapters, over 100 conference abstracts, and two patents. Dr. Ding has served as the president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Great Lakes Chapter in Michigan in 2020 and co-chaired the Physic Workshop of the European Society of Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) in 2022. Additionally, he has served on the scientific committee in numerous national and international societies such as MecaTech consortium (Belgium), DynamicARC consortium (IBA), and AAPM research seed funding initiative.

Positions

2022 - Present Associate Professor, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine ‐ Physics
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2016 - Present Adjunct Professor, Oakland University ‐ Physics
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2015 - Present Lead Medical Physicist, Beaumont ‐ Proton Therapy Center
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2019 - 2022 Assistant Professor, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine ‐ Physics
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2014 - 2015 Medical Physicist, Willis-Knighton Proton Therapy Center ‐ Proton Therapy Center
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2022 - Present Pilot agreement on Monaco Treatment Planning System commission
Elekta (Stockhom, Sweden)
Role: Principal Investigator
2021 - Present Develop a novel fast Spot-scanning Proton Arc (SPArc) planning framework for simultaneous delivery efficiency and dosimetric plan quality optimization
Beaumont Seed Grant Award
Role: Principal Investigator
2021 - Present Proton Arc Therapy treatment planning module evaluation
Elekta (Stockhom, Sweden)
Role: Multi-PI-contact
2020 - Present Proton Arc Therapy
Ion Beam Application (IBA, Belgium)
Role: Principal Investigator
2020 - 2021 Virtual reality Google-assisted therapeutic ambiance omission of anesthesia in proton radiotherapy for pediatric patients
Children's Miracle Network
Role: Principal Investigator
2019 - 2020 Dose perturbation in Visicoil (Au-Gold) and Visicoil MR (Pt-Platinum) markers in proton beam therapy
RadioMed Corporation
Role: Principal Investigator
2018 - 2019 Development of a novel proton therapy technique: Spot-scanning proton arc therapy
Beaumont Health Herb and Betty Fisher Research Seed Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
2017 - 2019 Proof of concept: Spot-scanning proton arc therapy
Ion Beam Application (IBA, Belgium)
Role: Principal Investigator
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Education

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2012 - 2014 Resident, University of Pennsylvania ‐ Medical Physics Residency
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2009 - 2012 Ph.D., Wake Forest University ‐ Physics
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2006 - 2009 M.S., Wake Forest University ‐ Physics
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2002 - 2006 B.S., Fudan University ‐ Physics
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Contact Information

Hospital address:
Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital
Proton Therapy Center
3601 W. Thirteen Mile Rd.
Royal Oak, MI 48073
Phone: 248-551-7092

Email:

ORCID

Recent Works (5)

Research Works (12)