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  • Nataliya Kovalchuk

    Nataliya Kovalchuk

    Clinical Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics

    BioNataliya Kovalchuk is a Clinical Professor at Stanford Radiation Oncology department and an Adjunct Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She completed her residency at Mayo Clinic and worked at Massachusetts General Hospital/Boston Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kovalchuk is one of the leaders in the clinical implementation of Biology-Guided Radiotherapy and auto-planning techniques for Total Body Irradiation (TBI), Total Marrow Lymphoid Irradiation (TMLI), and Cranio-Spinal Irradiation (CSI), with more than 200 publications and presentations. She serves on multiple committees at AAPM, ASTRO, NRG, COG, and volunteers for ABR as an examiner. She is also a physics chair for four NRG and COG clinical trials, physics lead for the NRG Head and Neck committee and the VMAT TBI workgroup. In recognition of her educational efforts, she has been honored with six teaching awards from ARRO, AAPM, Stanford, and Harvard. Since the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, Nataliya directed her efforts to helping Ukraine as a co-founder and president of Help Ukraine Group. Her dedication was recognized with the Richard Hoppe Leadership Award and the Parliament of Ukraine Certificate of Merit for the Service to the People of Ukraine.


    Education:
    2002 - B.S., Physics, Drohobych State University, Ukraine
    2004 - M.S., Physics, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
    2008 - Ph.D., Applied Physics, University of South Florida (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute), Tampa, FL
    2010 - Medical Physics Residency, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    Academic Appointments:
    2010 - 2015 - Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital/Boston Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA
    2015 - 2019 - Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford, CA
    2019 - 2024 - Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford, CA
    2019 - 2024 - Adjunct Associate Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center/University of Texas, Houston, TX
    2024 - present - Clinical Professor, Stanford University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford, CA
    2024 - present - Adjunct Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center/University of Texas, Houston, TX