Summer School Faculty

Meet the program directors, invited faculty, and leadership guiding the 2026 AAPM Summer School.

Program Directors

Program Director

Dandan Zheng, PhD, FAAPM

Professor, Director of Medical Physics

Radiation Oncology
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Program Director

Heng Li, PhD, FAAPM

Chief Proton Physicist

Department of Radiation Oncology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Washington, DC

Invited Faculty

Invited Faculty

Bin Cai, PhD

Associate Professor

Radiation Oncology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Invited Faculty

Minsong Cao, PhD, FAAPM

Clinical Professor

Radiation Oncology
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA

Invited Faculty

Laura I. Cervino, PhD, FAAPM

Attending, Chief of Radiotherapy Physics Division

Medical Physics
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Invited Faculty

Serdar Charyyev

Clinical Assistant Professor

Radiation Oncology
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA

Invited Faculty

Huixiao Chen, PhD

Medical Physicist

Department of Therapeutic Radiology
Yale New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT

Invited Faculty

Rachel B. Ger, PhD, BS

Assistant Professor

Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC

Invited Faculty

Mu-Han Lin, PhD

Associate Professor, Medical Physicist

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Invited Faculty

Kathryn E. Mittauer, PhD

Medical Physicist

Department of Radiation Oncology
Miami Cancer Institute
Miami, FL

Invited Faculty

Haidy G. Nasief, PhD

Assistant Professor

Radiation Oncology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Invited Faculty

Parag Parikh, MD

Director of MR Guided Radiation Therapy and GI Radiation Oncology

Henry Ford Health System
Grosse Pointe, MI

Invited Faculty

Mihaela Rosu-Bubulac, PhD, FAAPM

Professor, Director Medical Physics Residency Program

Radiation Oncology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Invited Faculty

Jess E. Scholey, PhD

Assistant Professor

Radiation Oncology
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Invited Faculty

Dennis N. Stanley, PhD

Associate Professor, Chief of Adaptive Therapy

Radiation Oncology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Invited Faculty

Petra Trnkova

Associate Professor

Czech Technical University in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic

Invited Faculty

Xiaofeng Yang, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair in Physics Research

Radiation Oncology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Summer School Subcommittee Leadership

Chair

Vrinda Narayana, PhD, FAAPM

Chief Physicist, Henry Ford Providence; Clinical Professor

Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Vice Chair

Colleen J. Fox, PhD, FAAPM

Clinical Physicist, Assistant Professor

Radiation Oncology
Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth College
Lebanon, NH