James B. Yu, MD, MHS, FASTRO
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Assistant Professor Adjunct
Biography
James Yu, MD, MHS, is a practicing radiation oncologist at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Saint Francis Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, in Hartford, CT.
He is a former Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Yale School of Medicine, and former Associate Chief Medical Officer of the Smilow Cancer Hospital and Care Centers. He was most recently the Executive Vice Chair of Columbia University Irving Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology.
Dr. Yu specializes in treating genitourinary cancers such as kidney, bladder and prostate, central nervous system cancers and cases requiring stereotactic radiosurgery, and has presented and lectured internationally on these subjects. He also treats rectal, breast, and lung cancers at Saint Francis Hospital.
In his academic work, Dr. Yu conducts research on ways to use radiotherapy treatments to improve outcomes for cancer patients. “We need to push the field ever forward and not be satisfied with merely prolonging survival,” says Dr. Yu. “I think radiosurgery will play a role in this. As systemic therapies improve and our ability to control microscopically disseminated disease improves, noninvasive ablative therapies will become ever more important.”
As a former Yale Center for Clinical Investigation scholar and founding member of the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center at Yale, Dr. Yu’s research centers on the comparative effectiveness of new radiation technologies and how these new technologies are adopted nationally.
Dr. Yu is currently the Deputy Editor-In-Chief of the journal Practical Radiation Oncology and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Oncology - Clinical Cancer Informatics, JNCI, JNCI-Cancer Spectrum, European Urology - Oncology, Journal of Surgical Oncology, and Oncology (Williston Park), and former editorial board member of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
He has published over 350 original manuscripts and co-edited the textbook Pocket Radiation Oncology and Principles of Clinical Cancer Research. He is the radiation oncology co-chair for the Southwest Oncology Group Genitourinary Cancers Committee, and a nationally recognized expert in patient reported outcomes.
Appointments
Medical Oncology
Assistant Professor AdjunctPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Brain Tumor Center
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- COPPER Center
- Gamma Knife Center
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Oncology
- Pituitary Program
- Prostate & Urologic Cancers Program
- Radiation Oncology
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- MHS
- Yale University, Masters of Health Science (2014)
- Resident
- Yale New Haven Hospital (2009)
- Chief Resident
- Yale School of Medicine (2009)
- Intern
- California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (2005)
- MD
- University of Michigan Medical School (2004)
- BS
- Yale University (1999)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- July 17, 2024Source: Cancer Network
AI Use May Improve Treatment Outcomes in Prostate Cancer
- September 02, 2021
Smilow Cancer Hospital Patient and Family Forum
- June 05, 2019Source: OncLive
[VIDEO] Dr. Yu on the Drawbacks of Radiation Therapy in Prostate Cancer
- January 30, 2019Source: SpaceOAR Hydrogel
Meet Henry, a Patient who Prioritized His Health and Quality of Life When Facing Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer