Joseph Deasy, PhD
Joseph O. Deasy, PhD is Chair of the Department of Medical Physics, and holder of the Enid A. Haupt Endowed Chair in Medical Physics, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
Dr. Deasy received a PhD in Physics from the University of Kentucky in 1992, followed by an NIH-funded post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with mentors Rock Mackie and Jack Fowler. Before coming to MSK in 2010, he was a tenured Professor and Director of the Division of Bioinformatics and Outcomes Research in the Department of Radiation Oncology, at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the chief architect of the open-source Computational Environment for Radiological Research (CERR) software system, used by hundreds of researchers worldwide. He co-led the widely-used QUANTEC review of normal tissue toxicity. He was the first to propose, in 2003, using hierarchical optimization for treatment planning, a technique now being used at MSK and by other groups. He recently co-founded the AI-computational pathology company PAIGE.ai. He has led multiple NIH funded projects. Dr. Deasy’s current interests are informatics for predictive modeling, radiobiological modeling of treatment response, outcomes-driven treatment planning, and developing machine learning and optimal transport/network-based analysis methods of radiomic and genomic data in order to optimize cancer patient management decisions.
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