Kenneth Shung Hu, MD, FASTRO

Dr. Hu is Professor of the Departments of Radiation Oncology/Otolaryngology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and co-director of the NYU Langone Health Head and Neck Center. Dr. Hu has been involved in teaching at the institutional, city, national and international levels. He has served as faculty for ASTRO annual and spring refresher courses, chaired specialty meetings in image guided/adaptive radiation therapy, led the ASTRO annual econtouring training course as program director, chaired the head and neck scientific abstracts review committee, and served as chair of the ASTRO International Education Subcommittee. He is highly involved in the American Board of Radiology as a head and neck specialty examiner. He is an educational consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Dr. Hu’s scientific focus has been on clinical/translational research developing novel therapeutic approaches such as a) expanding the use of unilateral radiation therapy in lateralized head and neck cancers by defining new criteria to select patients 2) pioneering the use of oropharynx-directed treatment of unknown squamous cell carcinoma primaries, 3) developing intraoperative radiation therapy techniques in a multidisciplinary salvage regimen for recurrent head and neck cancer and 4) integrating brachytherapy for tongue preservation protocols.

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