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Emory Radiation Oncology Mission Statement

The Emory Department of Radiation Oncology serves the community through advanced innovation, translational research and clinical application of radiation therapy. The department is committed to excellence in scholarship and to the training of the next generation of radiation oncologists, technologists, and medical physicists. The department's goal is to provide the highest quality patient care through clinical investigation and implementation of improved treatment planning and delivery technologies.

Chair of Radiation Oncology

On January 14, 2008, Emory University School of Medicine appointed Walter Curran, M.D., as the Lawrence W. Davis Chair of Radiation Oncology and Chief Medical Officer of Winship Cancer Institute.  Prior to that, Dr Curran was Chairman of Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University.  He has served as Group Chairman and Principal Investigator of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), a National Cancer Institute-funded, cooperative group since 1997. Dr. Curran has been a principal investigator on several National Cancer Institute grants.  He has delivered many lectures in this country and abroad and has authored or co-authored over two hundred abstracts and scholarly papers, as well as numerous presentations, reviews, and book chapters.  He is chairman/co-chairman of roughly nineteen clinical protocols and a reviewer for twelve national/international journals.

he Department of Radiation Oncology (at Emory) was formed in November 1991and operates two facilities in Atlanta, both of which are adjacent to hospitals that are part of the Emory Healthcare System. The Clifton Road campus is adjacent to Emory University Hospital and Egleston Children’s Hospital. The second facility is adjacent to Crawford Long Hospital.  In addition, our physicians practice at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Edward C. Loughlin Radiation Oncology Center of Grady Memorial Hospital. All radiation oncologists in the department have active appointments with the Emory University School of Medicine. Over the past 15 years, our department has transformed itself by being an early adopter of new technology which included CT simulation, IMRT and IGRT.