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lURIE CANCER CENTER AND Northwestern Medicine
​EXPERTS AT THE 
2025 ASTRO Annual Meeting

Physicians and scientists from the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University and Northwestern Medicine will present and discuss on top-tier science and education in radiation oncology at the 67th ASTRO Annual Meeting held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from September 27 – October 1, 2025.
Explore a complete list of presentations at ASTRO 2025

a sample of our presentation schedule

Presenter
Date, Time & Location
Track & Session

Poonam Yadav, PhD, research associate professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Medicine
Sunday, September 28, 2025
​2:30 - 4:00 pm PT
Hall F, Screen 17
PQA 01 - Radiation and Cancer Physics, Sarcoma and Cutaneous Tumors
​2277 - Dose Rate Dependence of Rbe of I-125 in Eye Plaque Treatment
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Qian Zhang, MD, PhD, current chief resident of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Medicine
Sunday, September 28, 2025
4:45 - 6:00 pm PT
​Hall F, Screen 17

PQA 02 - Lung Cancer/Thoracic Malignancies, Patient Reported Outcomes/QoL/Survivorship, Pediatric Cancer
2539 - Postmarketing Surveillance of Adverse Events after Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy and Radiotherapy

Monday, September 29, 2025
8:00 - 9:00 am PT
Hall F, Screen 28

PQA 03 - Central Nervous System, Professional Development/Medical Education
2698 - Radiomic Substudy of a Phase 1b Trial of MW151 for Cognitive Impairment after Hippocampal Avoidant Whole Brain Radiotherapy (HA-WBRT) for Intracranial Metastases

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
4:00 - 5:00 pm PT
Hall F, Screen 8
PQA 09 - Hematologic Malignancies, Health Services Research, Digital Health Innovation and Informatics
3758 - Microsoft Copilot's Performance in Extracting Variables about Radiation Oncology Breast Cancer Articles

Shuhua Zheng, DO, PhD, current chief resident of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Medicine
Monday, September 29, 2025
8:30 - 8:40 am PT
​Room 22/23
SS 15 - Radiation Biology 2: Novel Immunotherapeutics & Biomarker Discovery
191 - Preclinical Evaluation of First-in-Class PROTAC Survivin Degrader HMAK101 for Radiosensitization for GBM, DIPG and Brain Metastases

Michelle Kwan, medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Monday, September 29, 2025
10:45 am - 12:00 pm PT
Hall F, Screen 1
PQA 04 - Gynecological Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer
2784 - Outcomes of HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer in Smokers vs. Non-Smokers

Vinai Gondi, MD, clinical associate professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Medicine
Monday, September 29, 2025
2:42 - 2:52 pm PT
San Francisco Ballroom
PL 01 - Plenary
LBA 03 - Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) After Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) for Brain Metastases from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC BM): Final Results of The Phase 3 METIS Trial

Laila A. Gharzai, MD, assistant professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Medicine
Monday, September 29, 2025
3:15 - 3:20 pm PT
Room 159
QP 03 - HSR 1: Quick Pitch: From Data to Delivery: Health Services Insights in Radiation Oncology
1014 - Predictors of Bad Debt in Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy


Yirong Liu, MD, current chief resident of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Medicine
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
4:00 - 5:00 pm PT
Hall F, Screen 8
PQA 09 - Hematologic Malignancies, Health Services Research, Digital Health Innovation and Informatics
3668 - Application of Large Language Models for Condensation of Oncopathological Reports for Clinical Use

Sagnik Sarkar, medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
​Tuesday, September 30, 2025
4:00 - 5:00 pm PT
Hall F, Screen 8
PQA 09 - Hematologic Malignancies, Health Services Research, Digital Health Innovation and Informatics
3718 - Explainable Federated Learning for Plan Quality Assurance (QA) Prediction across Anatomical Sites

​Sean Sachdev, MD, vice chair of education and associate professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Medicine
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
8:00 - 9:00 am PT
Room 155/157
QP 20 - GU 9: Quick Pitch: Predictive Markers in Prostate Cancer
*followed by question and answer session led by Dr. Sachdev at 8:35 - 8:55 am PT

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