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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.
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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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 |
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: