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Bruce Haffty, MD,

Division of Clinical Radiation Oncology

Bruce G. Haffty, M.D., FACR, FASTRO, is Associate Vice Chancellor, Cancer Programs, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Professor and Chairman of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey Medical School. His medical school, internship and residency training was at Yale School of Medicine. He spent the majority of his academic career at Yale, where he was Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, residency program director from 1992 through 2004, Vice Chairman and Clinical Director from 2002-2005. He moved to Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in 2005. Dr. Haffty has a long and successful record in clinical and translational research in radiation oncology. He has focused his efforts on molecular/genetic factors as they relate to radiation resistance and outcomes in patients undergoing radiation. Dr. Haffty is also a leader in national clinical trials. He has coauthored a number of national clinical trials papers in high impact journals. He is currently co-investigator on several national clinical trials through the NRG and Alliance cooperative groups. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters, and numerous editorials and letters. He is consistently listed as one of the country’s leading physicians and best doctors through national registries. In addition to a busy clinical practice, Dr. Haffty has served on numerous national committees related to research and education in breast cancer and radiation oncology. He is a Past President of the American Radium Society, past Chairman of the Residency Review Committee in Radiation Oncology, past President of the American Board of Radiology, and past President and Past Chairman of the Board of ASTRO. He is the 2020 recipient of ASTRO’s Gold Medal. He currently serves as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and is currently President-Elect of RSNA.

 

Awards

  • ASTRO gold Medal-2020 Fellow American Radium Society-2021
  • Honorary Membership Award from the 2017 AAPM 59th Annual Meeting,7/31/2017
  • Distinguished Service Award from the Melvyn Motolinsky Research Foundation,
  • 11/4/2016 Fellow, American College of Radiology (FACR)
  • 2013 Radiological Society of North America Outstanding Educator of the Year
  • 2013 New York Roentgen Society Distinguished Radiation Oncologist,
  • 2011 Radiological Society of North America Annual Oration in Radiation Oncology,
  • 2009 Norman H Edelman Clinical Science Mentoring Award,Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,
  • 2009 Fellow, American Society of Radiation Oncology (FASTRO),
  • 2008 CINJ, Leadership in Patient Care Award
  • 2008 Listed in Top Cancer Doctors in America, Castle & Connolly,
  • 2005-2021 Listed in America’s Top Doctors for Cancer,
  • 2005-2021 Listed in The Best Doctors in America, (Woodard and White),
  • 1995-2012 Listed in Top Doctors in New York, New York Magazine,
  • 2001-2021 Listed in America’s Top Doctors, Castle Connolly,
  • 2001-2021 Listed in Top Doctors for Women, Ladies Home Journal,
  • April 2002 The Merck Award-Yale Medical School,
  • 1984 National Institute Health Summer Fellowship,
  • 1983 National Science Foundation Student Originated Studies Award

Publications

  1. Total full paper publications 475 Overcoming Barriers to Radiation Oncology Access in Low-Resource Settings in the United States. Mattes MD, Suneja G, Haffty BG, Takita C, Katz MS, Ohri N, Deville C Jr, Siker ML, Park HS. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2021 Sep 10;6(6):100802. doi: 10.1016/j.adro.2021.100802. eCollection 2021 Nov-Dec. PMID: 34693080 Free PMC article. The Feasibility of Radiotherapy after Breast-Conserving Surgery for Multiple Ipsilateral Breast Cancer: An Initial Report from ACOSOG Z11102 (Alliance) Trial.
  2. Cuttino LW, McCall L, Kubicky C, Ballman KV, Le-Petross H, Hunt KK, Haffty B, Rosenkranz KM, Boughey JC. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Oct 8:S0360-3016(21)02872-8. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.09.054. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34634438 Free article. No abstract available. Changing trends and disparities in 5-year overall survival of women with invasive breast cancer in the United States, 1975-2015.
  3. Yang M, Hu X, Bao W, Zhang X, Lin Y, Stanton S, Haffty B, Hu W, Kang Y, Wei S, Zhang L. Am J Cancer Res. 2021 Jun 15;11(6):3201-3211. eCollection 2021. PMID: 34249455 Free PMC article. Does kV Image Guidance for Bone Metastases Improve Pain Control? Tunceroglu AS, Gui B, Lu SE, Sison J, Parikh R, Goyal S, Haffty BG, Kim S, Jabbour SK. Front Oncol. 2021 Jun 17;11:627282. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.627282. eCollection 2021. PMID: 34221957 Free PMC article. Proton Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Consensus Statement From the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group Breast Cancer Subcommittee.
  4. Mutter RW, Choi JI, Jimenez RB, Kirova YM, Fagundes M, Haffty BG, Amos RA, Bradley JA, Chen PY, Ding X, Carr AM, Taylor LM, Pankuch M, Vega RBM, Ho AY, Nyström PW, McGee LA, Urbanic JJ, Cahlon O, Maduro JH, MacDonald SM. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Oct 1;111(2):337-359. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.05.110. Epub 2021 May 25. PMID: 34048815 Review. Cost-Effectiveness of Adjuvant Treatment for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ.
  5. Gupta A, Jhawar SR, Sayan M, Yehia ZA, Haffty BG, Yu JB, Wang SY. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jul 20;39(21):2386-2396. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.00831. Epub 2021 May 21. PMID: 34019456 A Statewide Multi-Institutional Study of Asymptomatic Pretreatment Testing of Radiation Therapy Patients for SARS-CoV-2 in a High-Incidence Region of the United States.
  6. Modi C, Dragun AE, Henson CF, Jain S, Ahlawat S, Eastwick G, Kubicek GJ, Mezera M, Mulvihill DJ, Perri J, Juneja B, Khullar K, Ennis RD, Haffty BG. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2021 Jul-Aug;6(4):100704. doi: 10.1016/j.adro.2021.100704. Epub 2021 Apr 20. PMID: 33898867 Free PMC article. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy in locally advanced head and neck cancer: an individual patient data network meta-analysis.
  7. Petit C, Lacas B, Pignon JP, Le QT, Grégoire V, Grau C, Hackshaw A, Zackrisson B, Parmar MKB, Lee JW, Ghi MG, Sanguineti G, Temam S, Cheugoua-Zanetsie M, O’Sullivan B, Posner MR, Vokes EE, Cruz Hernandez JJ, Szutkowski Z, Lartigau E, Budach V, Suwiński R, Poulsen M, Kumar S, Ghosh Laskar S, Mazeron JJ, Jeremic B, Simes J, Zhong LP, Overgaard J, Fortpied C, Torres-Saavedra P, Bourhis J, Aupérin A, Blanchard P; MACH-NC and MARCH Collaborative Groups. Lancet Oncol. 2021 May;22(5):727-736. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00076-0. Epub 2021 Apr 13. PMID: 33862002 Radiation Oncologists’ Views on Breast Radiation Therapy Guidelines: Utilizing an Online Q&A Platform to Assess Current Views on Whole-Breast Irradiation Therapy.
  8. Hsieh K, Housri N, Haffty B, Smith B, Burt LM. Clin Breast Cancer. 2021 Oct;21(5):408-416. doi: 10.1016/j.clbc.2021.02.010. Epub 2021 Feb