Hualin Zhang, PhD

Hualin Zhang, Ph.D., DABR, FAAPM, is a professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Zhang completed his medical physics residency at the University of Kentucky in 2005. He got his Ph.D. from Lanzhou Institute of Physics of China.
Dr. Zhang’s research spans several innovative modalities, including spatially fractionated radiation therapy, MRI-guided low dose rate (LDR) and high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy, and intraoperative radiation therapies using mesh and balloon-based systems.
Dr. Zhang has authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles and delivered more than 100 scientific presentations globally. He published the world’s first textbook on spatially fractionated radiation therapy in 2023, titled by “Spatially Fractionated, Microbeam, and Flash Radiation Therapy: A Physics and Multi-disciplinary Approach.”
Dr. Zhang has held numerous leadership roles, including co-Chair of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group on Intraoperative Mesh Brachytherapy (TG-222), co-Chair of AAPM Task Group on Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy (TG-440), and Chair of the Physics Working Group of the RSS GRID/Lattice, Microbeam, and Flash Radiotherapy Working Groups.
In 2018, Dr. Zhang was awarded as the outstanding teacher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
In 2024, Dr. Zhang was awarded as the Fellow of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (FAAPM).

• American Association of Physicist in medicine: Fellow, 2024
• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine: Outstanding Teacher, 2017
   – 2018

• University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky — 2005 — Medical Physics Residency
• University of Basse Normandie, Caen, France — 2000 — Physics
• Lanzhou Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Lanzhou, China — Ph.D — 1995
• Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China — MSc — 1991 — Physics
• Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China — BSc — 1986 — Physics

• Brachytherapy
• Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy
• Radiobiology
• Molecular Physics
• Immunology

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