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Oana Craciunescu

Professor of Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology
Box 3295 Med Ctr, Durham, NC
40 Medicine Circle Duke South, Box 3295, Durham, NC 27710

Available to Mentor


  • Masters

Advising & Mentoring


MS Thesis Advisor: 16 students:

Ome Mbibi (2007)

Esi Cleland (2008)

Jennifer Dixon Onxley(2012)

Linda Poplawski (2015)

Jeff Nawrocki (2015) awarded best presentation and a cash prize at the 2nd Annual Duke Cancer

            Institute Scientific Retreat, November, 2014

Linda Lohman (2015),

Michelle Ronki (2018), awarded the Duke MP 2018 excellence in research award,

Xinyi Shen (2019) awarded the 2019 ABS Judith Stitt Best Abstract Award for her work in establishing

            limits of error detection with novel in-vivo dosimeters in HDR brachytherapy (presented in

            plenary talk),

Sabrina Campelo (2020) awarded the Dean’s Research Award for MS Fellowship to support our

            research “3D Printing in Brachytherapy – Prototyping Applicators and Teaching Tools”. She

            also received Co-Lab grant that will further allow us to improve the quality of gynecological

            high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy education creating modular 3D printed pelvic teaching

            phantoms. She also received the first awarded Zachary Dean Shrock Memorial Scholarship from

            the Medical Physics Program. Awarded P.E.O. Scholar 2022-2023.

Illyia Chibirev (2020)

Odunola Babawale (2021) awarded the Dean’s Research Award for MS Fellowship to support our

            research “designing 3D printed brachytherapy teaching tools for radiation oncology residents”

Brian Shen (2021)

BillieAnn Radcliff (2022), co-mentor with Dr. Sheridan Meltsner

Yukun Yue (2022), DKU, co-mentor with Dr. Anna Rodrigues

Brett Eckroate (2022), co-mentor with Dr. Julie Raffi

Carolyn Eckrich (2023), co-mentor with Dr. Anna Rodrigues

 

 

MS, PhD Thesis Committees: 40 students, Duke and DKU

Chair, PhD Committee: Chunhao Wang (2016), Hope Pegues (2021)

Duke Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Residency Program: Past rotation supervisor for Brachytherapy, Linac QA, IMRT, TBI/TSI.