Adjunct Professor
Medical Physicist
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).
