Bharat B. Mittal, MD, is professor of radiation oncology and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Meerut University in India and received his MBBS (equivalent to U. S. MD) from Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, India in 1973. A flexible internship and residency in internal medicine were served at the Christian Medical College and Hospital. Afterward, he completed an additional residency in radiation oncology at Northwestern and a fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Mittal has previously been a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh.

Specialities: head and neck cancer, lymphoma

b-mittal@northwestern.edu

William Small Jr., MD, is professor of radiation oncology, vice chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, and associate medical director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern Universiity. He is an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in honors biology, magna cum laude from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He received his MD from the Feinberg School with distinction in 1990. He served an internship in internal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a residency in radiation oncology there as well.

Specialties: breast cancers, gynecological cancers, gastrointestinal cancers

w-small@northwestern.edu

Julia Jung Choo, MD, is an assistant professor. She graduated from Siena college in Loudonville, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in biology, magna cum laude. In 2000, she received her MD degree from Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. She served a transitional year internship at Rush University Medical Center followed by a residency in radiation oncology there. Most recently, she was an associate physician at Kaiser Permanente  Radiation Oncology in Los Angeles.

Specialty: breast cancers, gynecological cancers

 j-choo@northwestern.edu

John A. Kalapurakal, MD, is associate professor, radiation oncology and assistant professor of neurosurgery. He received his MBBS (equivalent to U.S. MD) from the Medical College Kottayam in Kerala, India in 1988. He served a residency in radiation oncology at the Regional Cancer Center in Kerala, India and received his MD in 1991. Next, he served an internal medicine residency at Erlanger Medical Center, University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and then a radiation oncology residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. He also holds appointments at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Children’s Memorial Hospital and is a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago.

Specialties: prostate cancers, pediatric tumors, Gamma knife radiosurgery

j-kalapurakal@northwestern.edu

Alan G. Kepka, PhD, is assistant professor, radiation oncology and chief of clinical physics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He recieved his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He worked at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center and the Illinois Institute of Technology before joining Northwestern.

Specialties: Gamma Knife radiosurgery, teaching, special procedures

a-kepka@northwestern.edu

Krystyna D. Kiel, MD, is associate professor in the department of radiation oncology. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received her MD degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1977. She completed an internal medicine residency there and afterward a radiation medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Before joining Northwestern, she held assistant professor positions at Tufts University Medical School and Rush Medical School.

Specialties: breast cancers, sarcomas

k-kiel@northwestern.edu

MaryAnne Hoffman Marymont, MD, is assistant professor of radiation oncology and assistant professor of neurosurgery. In addition, she holds several other appointments at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Children’s Memorial Hospital. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology with distinction from Northwestern and received her MD degree cum laude from St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1983. Dr. Marymont served an internship in internal medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago and her residency in Northwestern’s Department of Radiology, Division of Radiation Oncology (now designated as this separate department).

Specialties: lung cancers, pediatric tumors, Gamma knife radiosurgery

m-marymont@northwestern.edu

Tatjana Paunesku, PhD, is research assistant professor in the departments of Radiology and Radiation Oncology at the Feinberg School. She also is an adjunct professor at the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center of Northwestern University. She received her bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and her master’s degree in molecular biology and physiology from Belgrade University in Yugoslavia. In 1997, she received her PhD in biology from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Before joining Northwestern, she worked at Argonne National Laboratory in the biosciences division.

tpaunesku@northwestern.edu

Vythialingam Sathiaseelan, PhD, is associate professor, radiation oncology and chief, physics operations, Radiation Oncology Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He also is a consultant medical staff at Children's Memorial Hospital for the photon radiosurgery project. In July 1982, he received his PhD in microwave engineering from the University of Bradford, Bradford, England. Before joining Northwestern, he was on the faculty at Washington University.

Specialties: prostate intensity-modulated radiotherapy, brachytherapy, hyperthermia

v-sathiaseelan@northwestern.edu

Her primary research interests center around
1) studies of the molecular biology of lymphocyte and motor neuron abnormalities in neurologically dysfunctional/DNA-repair deficient wasted mice;
2) studies of gene regulation following stress responses such as radiation exposure;
3) developing nanostructures and nanotechnology for intracellular manipulation.

g-woloschak@northwestern.edu