Radiation Oncology

Christopher J. Schultz, MD Professor of Radiation Oncology Department of Radiation Oncology 8701 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee, WI 53226 (414) 805-4480

Curriculum Vitae

Patient Care Emphases

• Head and Neck Cancer
• Hodgkin's Disease
• Low Dose Rate Irradiation
• Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery
• Lymphoma
• Brain Tumors

Clinical Practice Locations

• Froedtert & Medical College Clinical Cancer Center: (414) 805-4400
• Community Memorial Hospital: (262) 257-5151

Education

• Doctor of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (1985).

Training

• Residency Radiation Oncology, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI (1989-1990).
• Residency Radiation Oncology, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY (1986-1988).
• Internship Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO (1985-1986).

Certifications

• Recertification, Radiation Oncology, American Board of Radiology (2000).
• Board Certification, Radiation Oncology, American Board of Radiology (1990).

Representative Publications (last 5 years)

• Bradley JA, Paulson ES, Ahunbay E, Schultz C, Li XA, Wang D. Dynamic MRI analysis of tumor and organ motion during rest and deglutition and margin assessment for radiotherapy of head and neck cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys Feb 5 [Epub ahead of print], 2011.
• Zundel MT, Michel MA, Schultz CJ, Maheshwari M, Wong SJ, Campbell BH, Massey BL, Blumin J, Wilson JF, Wang D. Comparision of physical examination and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography 4-6 months after radiotherapy to assess residual head and neck cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys Feb 5 [Epub ahead of print], 2011.
• Siker ML, Firat SY, Mueller W, Krouwer H, Schultz CJ. Semicontinuous low-dose-rate teletherapy for the treatment of recurrent glial brain tumors: Final report of a phase I/II study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys Jan 13 [Epub ahead of print], 2011.
• Schultz C, Bovi J. Current management of primary central nervous system lymphoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 76(3):666-78, 2010.
• Parker SM, Olteanu H, Vantuinen P, Lawton C, Schultz C, Christians K.  Int J Hematology 90(5):616-22, 2009.
• Ahunbay E, Peng C, Godley A, Schultz C, Li XA. An online replanning method for head and neck radiotherapy. Med Physics 36(10):4776-479, 2009.
• Rosenthal D, Harris J, Forastiere A, Weber R, Ridge J, Myers J, Garden A, Kuettel M, Sidhu K, Schultz C, Ang K. Early postoperative paclitaxel followed by concurrent paclitaxel-cisplatin with radiation therapy for patients with resected high risk head and nect squamous cell carcinoma: Report of the Phase II trial RTOG 0024. J Clinic Oncol 27(28):4727-4732, 2009.
• Hatford AC, Paliska MG, Eichler T, Beyer DC, Devineni V, Ibbott G, Kavanagh B, Kent J, Rosenthal S, Schultz CJ, Tripuraneni P, Gaspar L.  American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncologists (ASTRO) and American College of Radiology (ACR) practice guidelines for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).  Int J Rad Onc Bio Phys 73(1):9-14, 2009. 
• Vogelbaum M, Mehta M, Peereboom D, Blumenthal D, Suh J, Jenkins R, Berkey B, Brown P, Schultz C.  Phase II trial of pre-irradiation and concurrent temozolomide in patients with newly diagnosed anaplastic oligdendrogliomas and mixed anaplastic oligoastrocytomas RTOG BR0131.  Neuro-Oncology 11(2):167-175, 2009. 
• Spencer SA, Harris J, Wheeler RH, Machtay M, Schultz C, Spanos W, Rotman M, Meredith R, Ang K.  The Final Report of RTOG 9610 A Multi-Institutional Trial of Re-Irradiation Recurrent and Chemotherapy for Unresectable Recurrent Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck. Head and Neck Journal  30:3 281-288, 2008.
• Vernon MR. Maheshwari M. Schultz CJ. Michel MA. Wong SJ. Campbell BH. Massey BL. Wilson JF. Wang D.  Clinical outcomes of patients receiving integrated PET/CT-guided radiotherapy for head and neck carcinoma. Int J  Rad Onc Bio & Phys. 70(3):678-84, 2008.
• Yang Q, Feng Y, Qi X, Schultz C, Li XA, Wu H, Wang D.  Synergistic Effect of 15 Lipoxygenase 2 and Radiation on Carcinoma Cells of Head and Neck Cancer Gene Therapy 15:5, 329-330, 2008.
• Chen GP, Ahunbay E, Schultz C, Li XA.  Development of an inverse optimization package to plan non-uniform dose distributions based on spatially inhomoenous radiosensitivity extracted from biological images Medical Physics 34(4), 2007.
• Li XA. Qi XS. Pitterle M. Kalakota K. Mueller K. Erickson BA. Wang D. Schultz CJ. Firat SY. Wilson JF. Interfractional variations in patient setup and anatomic change assessed by daily computed tomography. Int J Rad Onc Bio & Phys 68(2):581-91, 2007.
• Qi XS, Schultz CJ, Li XA.  Possible fractionated regimens for image-guided intensity modulated radiation therapy of large arteriovenous malformations. Physics in Medicine and Biology 52: 5667-5682, 2007.