Nataliya Kovalchuk, PhD

Dr. Nataliya Kovalchuk, is a Clinical Professor at Stanford Radiation Oncology Department. Dr. Kovalchuk received her therapeutic medical physics training at Mayo Clinic and worked at Massachusetts General Hospital/Boston Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. In 2015, she joined Stanford Radiation Oncology department and is currently employed as and Clinical Professor at Stanford and Adjunct Professor at MD Anderson. Nataliya is a lead on Head and Neck NRG physics committee, Physics Chair on various NRG clinical trials, member of Children Oncology Group Total Body Irradiation physics committee and AAPM Global Clinical Education and Training Committee. Her research work is concentrated on improving outcomes and lives for pediatric patients by modernizing conventional Total Body Irradiation (TBI) and Cranio-Spinal Irradiation (CSI) techniques, Total Marrow and Lymphoid Irradiation (TMLI) automating radiotherapy treatment planning for TBI, CSI, TMLI, and investigating and implementing the novel biology-guided radiotherapy techniques. She also received numerous teaching awards from ARRO Harvard radiation oncology residents and Stanford medical physics residents for her educational work. 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. She received the Richard Hoppe Leadership Award from Stanford Radiation Oncology department in 2022 and the Parliament of Ukraine Certificate of Merit for the Service to the People of Ukraine in 2024 for her work on supporting Ukrainian cancer centers during the war.

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