2025 Hideo “Dale” Kubo Memorial Lecture
Thursday, May 17, 2025, 5 p.m.
Education Building, Lecture Hall 1204
UC Davis Health, School of Medicine
4610 X St., Sacramento, CA 95817
“Proposing Patient Care Through Innovation: Past, Present, and Future”
Join the Department of Radiation Oncology to celebrate clinical contributions to the field with esteemed guest, Eric Ford.
Eric Ford, Ph.D., F.A.S.T.R.O.
Director and Vice-Chair, Medical Physics, University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Eric Ford is the Director and Vice-Chair of Medical Physics at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He has made numerous contributions to the field including early development of 4DCT, pioneering work in the research of safety, quality, and contributions to global oncology. He is the author of the widely used textbook “Primer on Radiation Oncology Physics.”
He is an active member of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), a Fellow of the AAPM and ASTRO, and has served on the Board of Directors for both organizations.
He will be exploring the theme of innovation in Radiation Oncology, drawing from the past with an eye towards the future including emerging applications of powerful AI. While this technology may improve care and enable new treatment techniques such as Adaptive Radiation Therapy, it also raises questions about its use and potential misuse. He will also discuss the principles of implementation science and how this may bear these problems.
Hideo "Dale" Kubo, Ph.D.
1943-2003
Professor and Chief of Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology
Hideo "Dale" Kubo, served as Professor and Chief of Physics at UC Davis School of Medicine from 1991 to 2003. He completed his doctorate in Nuclear and Atomic Physics at the University of Rochester in 1973, and his post-graduate training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
While at Massachusetts General Hospital, he worked in radiation dosimetry, and contributed to the field by creating calorimetry-absorbed dose standards for high-energy electron and photon beams and air-kerma standards for photon brachytherapy.
After joining the radiation oncology department at UC Davis Cancer Center in 1991, Kubo led emergent technology for breathing-synchronized radiotherapy, the first to implement gating for photon-beam radiotherapy and bring a breathing cycle irradiation system to treat lung cancer to the West.
As a mentor and a teacher, he dedicated himself to train physicists, medical students, residents and fellows. His work contributed to the establishment of the UC Davis radiation oncology physician residency program. He was developing a similar residency program for medical physicists, as well as a visiting scholar program, before his death. Established in 2007, the Kubo Memorial Lecture keeps alive the memory of this active and respected educator and scientist, to celebrate and perpetuate his numerous contributions to radiation oncology.
Quynh-Thu Le, M.D., F.A.C.R., F.A.S.T.R.O., F.A.R.S.
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
Stanford University
2024
Sha Chang, Ph.D., D.A.B.R.
Director of Medical Physics Research
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2023
Robert D. Kavanagh, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.S.T.R.O.
Professor and Chair, A.S.T.R.O. Chair
University of Colorado
2019
Todd Pawlicki, Ph.D., F.A.A.P.M.
Professor and Vice Chair of Medical Physics
Division Director
Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences
UC San Diego
2018
I-Chow (Joe) Hsu, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
UC San Francisco
2017
Benedick Fraass, Ph.D., F.A.A.P.M., F.A.S.T.R.O., F.A.C.R.
Vice Chair for Research, Professor and Director of Medical Physics
Department of Radiation Oncology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Mack Roach, III, M.D., F.A.C.R.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology and Department of Urology
UC San Francisco
2013
Robert Timmerman, M.D.
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery, and Effie Marie Cain Distinguished Chair in Cancer Therapy Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2011
Jeffrey F. Williamson, Ph.D., D.A.B.R., F.A.C.R.
Professor and Division Chair of Medical Physics
Virginia Commonwealth University
2009
Paul Keall, Ph.D., D.A.B.R., D.A.B.M.P., R.Inst.P., F.A.C.P.S.E.M.
Associate Professor and Director, Radiation Physics Division
Stanford University
2007
