Dukagjin M. Blakaj

Medical School: Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY. Internship in Internal Medicine: Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. Residency in Radiation Oncology: Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. I am a radiation oncologist and director of the Head and Neck Department of Radiation Oncology at the Ohio State University, where I also serve as an associate professor. I am proficient in a variety of techniques, including intensity-modulated radiotherapy, image-guided radiotherapy, Linac- and Gamma Knife-based stereotactic radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiation therapy, and intraoperative radiation therapy. I serve as a member of the Translational Therapeutics Program at the OSUCCC James. My clinical and translational science research interests include experimental therapeutics in head and neck, endocrine, and spine malignancies, human papillomavirus (HPV)-induced malignancies, immunotherapy, and radiation resistance mechanisms of head and neck and metastatic spine cancers in general.