Walter Curran, MD

Lawrence W. Davis Chairman and Professor of Radiation Oncology

Walter J. Curran, Jr., M.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology of Emory University School of Medicine where he also serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University.

Dr. Curran graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia.  He completed his residency in the Department of Radiation Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and an internship in internal medicine at Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Dr. Curran has served as Group Chairman and Principal Investigator of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), a National Cancer Institute-funded, cooperative group since 1997.  He previously served as Chairman of the RTOG Brain Tumor Committee and is the principal investigator of several national clinical protocols for both brain tumor and lung cancer patients.

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.

Dr. Curran is a Board Certified Radiation Oncologist.  Among other honors, he has received honorary membership to both the European Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ESTRO) and the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO).