Dr. David Zhang

Dr. Zhang comes to Colorado State University from the Department of Radiation Oncology, James Cancer Hospital, at The Ohio State University. He is the Department's new medical physicist in Radiation Oncology.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in optics from Shandong University in Jinan, China, Dr. Zhang attended the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, where he received his Master's degree in nuclear physics. He completed a medical physics internship and was a medical physics Post Doctoral Fellow and Resident from 2007 until joining Colorado State University this year.

His clinical experience includes commissioning, quality assurance and treatment planning in cancer radiation therapy. His research experience includes studies in intensity-modulated radiation therapy, assessment of tumor response, radiobiological modeling and other areas of medical physics.