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Michael Straza, MD, PhD

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Michael Straza, MD, PhD

Michael Straza, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Locations

Radiation Oncology

Contact Information

(414) 805-4477

Education

PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School MD/PhD Program, Worcester, MA, 2010
MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School MD/PhD Program, Worcester, MA, 2012

Biography

Training

Internship, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL (2013)

Residency, Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (2017)

Patient Care Emphases

General Radiation Oncology

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4D-MRI driven MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy for abdominal stereotactic body radiation therapy on a high field MR-Linac: Implementation and initial clinical experience

(Paulson ES, Ahunbay E, Chen X, Mickevicius NJ, Chen GP, Schultz C, Erickson B, Straza M, Hall WA, Li XA.) Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology. July 2020;23:72-79 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85084968086 07/01/2020
The Dosimetric Impact of Interfractional Organ-at-Risk Movement During Liver Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.

(Schmid RK, Tai A, Klawikowski S, Straza M, Ramahi K, Li XA, Robbins JR.) Pract Radiat Oncol. 2019 Nov;9(6):e549-e558 PMID: 31176791 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85069501222 06/10/2019
Host genetic modifiers of nonproductive angiogenesis inhibit breast cancer.

(Flister MJ, Tsaih SW, Stoddard A, Plasterer C, Jagtap J, Parchur AK, Sharma G, Prisco AR, Lemke A, Murphy D, Al-Gizawiy M, Straza M, Ran S, Geurts AM, Dwinell MR, Greene AS, Bergom C, LaViolette PS, Joshi A.) Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2017 Aug;165(1):53-64 PMID: 28567545 PMCID: PMC6404538 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85020059895 06/02/2017
Therapeutic targeting of C-terminal binding protein in human cancer.

(Straza MW, Paliwal S, Kovi RC, Rajeshkumar B, Trenh P, Parker D, Whalen GF, Lyle S, Schiffer CA, Grossman SR.) Cell Cycle. 2010 Sep 15;9(18):3740-50 PMID: 20930544 PMCID: PMC3047800 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-77957003489 10/12/2010
Protein kinase C zeta mediates epidermal growth factor-induced growth of head and neck tumor cells by regulating mitogen-activated protein kinase.

(Cohen EE, Lingen MW, Zhu B, Zhu H, Straza MW, Pierce C, Martin LE, Rosner MR.) Cancer Res. 2006 Jun 15;66(12):6296-303 PMID: 16778206 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33745699726 06/17/2006