Radiation Medicine

Ronald Charles McGarry, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chairman
Chandler Medical Center
800 Rose Street C-114C
Lexington, KY 40536
Phone: (859) 323-6880
Fax: (859) 257-7483
Email: merand2@email.uky.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Lung Cancer
• Stereotatic body radiation therapy
• Lymphoma
• Clinical trials

EDUCATION:

• M.D., University of Calgary, 1992
• Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 1981
• M.Sc., University of Western Ontario, 1977
• B.Sc., University of Western Ontario, 1975

BOARD CERTIFICATION:

American Board of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, 1999

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Timmerman, R., Papiez, L., McGarry, R., Likes, L., DesRosiers, C., Bank, M., Frost, S., Randall, M., and Williams, M. 2003. Extracranial stereotactic radioablation: results of a phase I study in medically inoperable stage I non-small cell lung cancer patients. Chest. 124: 1946-1955

McGarry, R.C. 2003. Turf Wars: Medical Men take on the Establishment in Niagara Falls, Ontario. CMAJ 169(12): 1335-1336.

Huncharek, M. and McGarry, R.C. 2004. Meta-analysis of timing of radiotherapy in the combined modality treatment of limited stage small cell lung cancer. Oncology. 9(6):665-672.

McGarry, R.C., Papiez, L., Williams, M., Whitford, T., and Timmerman, R.T., Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy of Early Stage Non-small Cell Lung Carcinoma: Phase I Study. Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 63(4): 1010-1015. 2005

Sinha, B. and McGarry, R. C. Extracranial stereotactic body radiation therapy in the management of bilateral pulmonary cancer. Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 66(4): 1120-1124. 2006.

Kavanagh, B.D., McGarry, R.C. and Timmerman, R.D. Extracranial Radiosurgery (aka Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy) for Oligometastases. Sem. Rad. Oncol. 16(2):77-84, 2006.

Hoopes, D.J., Tann, M., Fletcher, J., Forquer, J.A., Lin, P., Lo, S., Timmerman, R. and McGarry, R.C. FDG-PET and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Submitted.

Timmerman R., McGarry, R.C., Yiannoutsos, C., Papiez, L., Tudor, K., DeLuca, J., Ewing, M., Abdulrahman, R., DesRosiers, C., Williams, M., and Fletcher, J. Initial Results of a Prospective Phase II Study of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Medically Inoperable Early Stage Lung Cancer. Toxicity when Treating Central Lesions. JCO. In press.

Xu, Y., Jagtap, M.R., Garland, T., McGarry, R.C., Mendonca, M.S. and McLennan, G. Iododeoxyuridine (IudR) uptake in Proliferating Smooth Muscle Cells. J. Vasc. Intervent. Radiol. In press.