Issam El Naqa

Issam El Naqa received his B.Sc. (1992) and M.Sc. (1995) in Electrical and Communication Engineering from the University of Jordan, Jordan. He worked as a software engineer at the Computer Engineering Bureau (CEB), Jordan, 1995-1996. He was awarded a DAAD scholarship to Germany, where he was a visiting scholar at the RWTH Aachen, 1996-1998. He completed his PhD (2002) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, receiving highest academic distinction award for his PhD work. He completed an M.A. (2007) in Biology Science from Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA, where he was pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship in medical physics and was subsequently hired as a Instructor (2005-2007) and then an Assistant Professor (2007-2010) at the departments of radiation oncology and the division of biomedical and biological sciences and was an adjunct faculty at the department of Electrical engineering. He became an Associate Professor at McGill University Health Centre/Medical Physics Unit (2010-2015) and associate member of at the departments of Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Experimental medicine, where he was a designated FRSQ and CIHR scholar. He is currently an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and associate member in Applied Physics. He is a certified Medical Physicist by the American Board of Radiology. He is a recognized expert in the fields of image processing, bioinformatics, computational radiobiology, and treatment outcomes modeling and has published extensively in these areas with more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has been an acting member of several academic and professional societies. His research has been funded by several federal and private grants and serves as a peer-reviewer and associate editor for several leading international journals in his areas of expertise.

Publications

Emerging Developments and Practices in Oncology
Emerging Developments and Practices in Oncology
Issam El Naqa. © 2018. 305 pages.
Cancer is a leading cause of death that affects numerous people at every age and their relatives. In recent years, there has been a tremendous advancement in imaging and...
Big Data Approaches to Improve Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Outcomes: Big Data for SBRT
Big Data Approaches to Improve Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Outcomes: Big Data for SBRT
Issam El Naqa, Michael T. Milano, Nitin Ohri, Vitali Moiseenko, Eduardo G. Moros, Joseph O. Deasy, Jimm Grimm, Jinyu Xue, Mary Martel, Randall K Ten Haken. © 2018. 20 pages.
‘Big data' approaches carry promise for advancing our understanding of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) (also termed stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, SABR) and...
Radiomics: The New Frontier in Quantitative Image Modeling in Radiotherapy
Radiomics: The New Frontier in Quantitative Image Modeling in Radiotherapy
Julie Constanzo, Issam El Naqa. © 2018. 27 pages.
Recent advances in image-guided and adaptive radiotherapy have ushered new requirements for using single and/or multiple-imaging modalities in staging, treatment planning, and...