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Louis Harrison, MD
Louis Harrison, MD

    Dr. Louis Harrison is the clinical director of the Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, chairman of radiation oncology at Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Center in New York. He is also the co-director of the Institute for Head & Neck Cancer at Beth Israel. He is also a professor of radiation oncology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

    Dr. Harrison is an internationally recognized and extensively published expert in the areas of head and neck cancer, sarcomas and intraoperative brachytherapy. He has been a leader in the development of multi-disciplinary management strategies, which prioritize cancer cures with organ and function preservation. He is co-editor of the textbook Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach, published by Lippincott-Raven in October 1998; and Intraoperative Irradiation: Techniques and Results, published by Humana Press in 1999. Before joining Beth Israel Medical Center in 1997, Dr. Harrison was chief of the brachytherapy service and leader of the head and neck cancer disease management team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is active in a variety of medical committees and professional organizations including the American Board of Radiology, the American Brachytherapy Society and the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons. He is a past-president of the American Brachytherapy Society and is currently the vice chairman of the Refresher Course Program for the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. He is the recent recipient of the Boyer Young Investigator Award for Biomedical Research.

    He received his medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn, New York, and completed his residency training in therapeutic radiology at Yale University's New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.

    Schedule28 Mar 2024