Specialties
Radiation therapy, medical physics, multidisciplinary research
Education/Degrees
PhD (Solid State Physics): Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
Medical Physics Residency: The Joint Center for Radiotherapy, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
BS (Physics): Nanking University, Nanking, China
Research Interests
Microbeam and spatially-fractionated radiation therapy preclinical research
Carbon nanotube field emission based radiation technology development
Early treatment outcome detection using acoustic angiography
Enhancement of NP drug tumor delivery using microbeam radiation
IMRT dose optimization and delivery
Recyclable compensator-IMRT solution
Radiotherapy treatment planning system development
Radiotherapy physics education
Board Certifications
American Board of Radiology (1996)
Academic Honors/Awards
Fellow of American Association of Physics in Medicine (2012)
Fellow of Academy of Educators of UNC School of Medicine (2011)
President of Southeast Chapter of American Association of Physics in Medicine (2008)
Grants (Active)
Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Pilot Grant (2015-2016) ($50,000.00)
Enhance Tumor Delivery of Carrier-Mediated Agents Using Microbeam Radiation Therapy
PI: S Chang
UNC Eshelman Institute for Innovation Grant (2015-2016) ($50,000.00)
Enhancing tumor delivery of nanoparticle anticancer agents using microbeam radiation therapy
PI: W Zamboni
Co-PI: S Chang
UNC-UIH PLUNC 2.0 Development Grant (2013-2017) ($550,000.00)
UIH is an emerging Chinese medical device company. The grant supports the collaboration between UNC and UIH to develop and commercialize a treatment planning system based on the PLUNC software used in UNC.
PI: S. Chang
Book Chapters
S. Chang, Chapter 93 Compensator-based IMRT, Quality and Safety in Radiation Oncology,
Editors T. Pawlicki, P. Dunscombe, A. Mundt, and P. Scalliet, (2010). P 565-569
S. Wang, O. Zhou, S. Chang, Chapter 19: Carbon-nanotube field emission electron and x-ray
technology for medical research and clinical applications, The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and
Technology, p.673-696 (2010).
