Dr. Avinash Chaurasia is a U.S. Army radiation oncologist and healthcare leader currently serving as Chief of Radiation Oncology at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. In this role, he oversees clinical operations, graduate medical education, research, and strategic oncology initiatives within one of the Department of Defense’s largest tertiary care medical centers. Since assuming leadership in 2022, he has maintained uninterrupted access to complex cancer care services despite significant staffing shortages while leading modernization efforts across clinical, operational, and informatics domains.
Dr. Chaurasia serves as the Radiation Oncology Consultant to the Office of The Surgeon General for the U.S. Army, advising Army Medicine leadership on specialty readiness, force structure, technology modernization, and enterprise oncology initiatives. He has worked extensively with the Defense Health Agency on enterprise radiation oncology modernization efforts, including coordination of next-generation linear accelerator acquisition and installation planning, ARIA oncology informatics implementation, MHS GENESIS integration initiatives, and multi-site clinical standardization projects across military treatment facilities. He has additionally led collaborative DoD–VA interoperability and oncology innovation efforts focused on treatment plan sharing, informatics integration, and modernization of cancer care delivery across federal healthcare systems.
Dr. Chaurasia holds faculty appointments with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and serves as adjunct faculty for the Army–Duke Radiation Oncology residency partnership with Duke University School of Medicine. Nationally, he serves in leadership and educational roles within the American Society for Radiation Oncology focused on physician education, workforce development, and modernization of radiation oncology training.
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