The Cancer Center at University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) announces the appointment of Ashraf Youssef, MD as Medical Director of the Requard Radiation Oncology Center. UM SRH is a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS).
A board-certified general radiation oncologist with over 25 years of experience, Dr. Youssef also serves as Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He brings extensive expertise in advanced technologies including stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) and brachytherapy. Most recently, he served as Chief Radiation Oncologist at Guthrie Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, New York. His academic work includes multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at national scientific meetings.
In his new role, Dr. Youssef promotes access to the full spectrum of advanced radiation therapy services and technologies available to Eastern Shore patients. He also collaborates with UMMS clinical trials research teams to further expand research and clinical trials protocol programs.
Dr. Youssef earned his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, and holds a Master of Science degree in Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Surgery from Cairo University. He completed a preliminary internship in internal medicine, a residency in radiation oncology and a fellowship in brachytherapy New York Presbyterian-Methodist Hospital at Brooklyn, New York.
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
A member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of five counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. UM SRH consists of approximately 2,000 team members, including more than 600 health care providers on the Medical Staff, who work with community partners to advance the values that are foundational to our mission: Compassion, Discovery, Excellence, Diversity and Integrity. For more information, visit https://www.umms.org/shore.
About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
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