University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, United States
John Plastaras, M.D., Ph.D. is an Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine. He is the Chief of the Hematologic and Gastrointestinal Cancer Service, with a clinical practice that focuses on patients with these malignancies. He serves as Vice Chair for Strategic Clinical Research. His research program has focused on the use of proton therapy and the combination of immune therapies and radiation in the management of Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin lymphomas, including integrating radiotherapy into CAR T-cell therapy. He and his team at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center have developed and used pencil-beam scanned proton therapy combined with deep-inspiratory breath hold for mediastinal lymphomas. He is the Chair of the Lymphoma Track Scientific Committee for the Annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). He is the Chair of the Education Committee and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group (ILROG). He is a member of the NCI Leukemia Steering Committee and the BMT CTN Dissemination & Implementation Committee. At Penn Medicine, he contributes to the overall research mission as the co-Chair of the Abramson Cancer Center’s Scientific Protocol Review Committee.
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