Vishruta Dumane, PhD, DABR

Dr. Vishruta Ajitkumar Dumane is a Medical Physicist and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She joined the Mount Sinai Medical Center after completing her training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 2005. Her research focuses on development of treatment planning approaches that are designed to cover the cancerous tumor volumes while maintaining minimum dose to critical organs, developing knowledge-based models for automated treatment planning for various treatment sites including mesothelioma, multiple cranial lesion stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), gynecologic, prostate, head and neck cancer and cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. She has authored 48 peer-reviewed journal publications and conference proceedings. Some of her contributions are key on the use of the deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) maneuver to reduce low dose to critical organs such as the heart and the lungs while treating breast cancer with radiation, on combining three dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) to improve regional nodal irradiation and on reducing dose to organs in the supraclavicular region. She has also authored a book chapter on intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for breast cancer and an award winning article on optimizing treatment positioning to achieve better heart sparing for left-sided breast cancer cases. She is the principal investigator on the use of knowledge-based planning for mesothelioma and has been a co-investigator on several other clinical trials pertaining to the treatment of cancers related to the breast, lung, liver and gynecologic. Dr. Dumane is a member of The American Association of Physicists in Medicine and The Radiological and Medical Physics Society of New York and is a two time recipient of the RAMPS Young Investigator Award. In addition to her clinical and research activities, she is passionate about teaching treatment planning and medical dosimetry practices to students. She was recently appointed as Clinical Associate Professor, School of Health Professions, Stony Brook University