Lisa Singer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
M_Radiation Oncology
[email protected]
+1 415 353-9826

Dr. Singer is an attending physician and Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology at UCSF, where she specializes in the use of radiation to treat breast cancer, thoracic cancer, and ventricular tachycardia. She also serves as Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Director in Radiation Oncology and is board-certified in both radiation oncology and MRI safety. She received a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco in 2010, focusing on breast MRI, and then her MD from the University of California, San Francisco in 2012. She completed internship at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, residency at University of California, San Francisco and fellowship focusing on women's health at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She then worked as an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School for three years where she served as MR Medical Director and Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology. Dr. Singer has worked on advancing the use of MRI for the care of patients with cancer for over 10 years and continues to develop this technology for the care of patients with breast cancer, lung cancer as well as other cancers.

Her research focuses on the use of imaging to improve our ability to 1) predict tumor response to treatment, and 2) to target tumors with radiotherapy. She has developed and led multiple clinical trials in this space. Prediction of tumor response earlier in a patient’s treatment course could allow for earlier changes in therapy, improving outcomes. Additionally, prediction of normal tissue toxicity at earlier timepoints could inform changes in radiation planning, reducing morbidity. She is also interested in developing novel methods to improve safety and education surrounding biomedical imaging and image-guided radiotherapy.

Together with her colleagues in medical oncology and surgery, she strives to provide exceptional, multidisciplinary care for all of her patients.

Publications

Little Downside.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics

Singer L, Rugo HS

IJROBP

Impact of Healthy Volunteer MR-Linac Imaging on Clinical Implementation of Stereotactic MR-Guided Online Adaptive Radiotherapy

Boyle PJ, Huynh E, Sugar EN, Hacker FL, Boyle S, Usta I, Campbell J, Penney J, Bernal A, Williams CL, Cagney DN, Mak RH, Singer L

IJROBP

STAMPing out MRI Simulation Hazards with a System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes Approach to Proactive Hazard Assessment

Wong L, Huynh E, Mak RH, Leveson N, Singer L

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Factors associated with palliative radiotherapy in the last 30 days of life

Wu S, Singer L, Garcia MA, Fogh SE, Braunstein SE

IJROBP

Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in monitoring changes in tumor-associated stroma during treatment with neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced breast cancer

Singer L, Jones E, Newitt D, Kornak J, Hylton N, Park CC

IJROBP

Radiation within 30 Days of death: TEACHH score and ability to complete treatment

Wu S, Singer L, Xu C, Gjyshi O, Fogh S, Braunstein S

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Role of emergent palliative radiation therapy in the care of patients with cancer

Singer L, Zhang M, Braunstein S, Fogh S

IJROBP

A quality improvement study to improve assessment of patient readiness to quit tobacco prior to treatment with radiation therapy

Singer L, Boreta L, Braunstein S, Fogh S

IJROBP

Quality improvement study on reducing time from new patient evaluation for bone metastasis to time of CT simulation

Singer L, Chang J, Johnson J, Polishchuk A, Choi S, Fogh S

IJROBP

Tobacco cessation perspectives and practice among U.S. radiation oncology residents

Braunstein S, Singer L, Silveira W, Fogh SE

2012 ISMRM Annual Meeting Proceedings

High-resolution DWI for characterizing breast tumor response to treatment

Wilmes LJ, McLaughlin RL, Sinha S, Newitt DC, Singer L, Proctor E, Wisner D, Saritas EU, Shankaranarayanan A, Banerjee S, Joe BN, Hylton NM

Cancer Research

Improved Spatial Resolution Diffusion-Weighted Imaging for Characterizing Tumors and Treatment Response in Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer

LJ Wilmes, R McLaughlin, S Sinha, L Singer, E Proctor, D Wisner, DN Newitt, A Shankaranarayanan, BN Joe and NM Hylton

Abstract Archives of the RSNA

Non-enhanced CT versus standard dose contrast-enhanced CT in combined PET/CT protocols for assessing metastatic liver lesions

Badiee, S, Coakley, F, Franc, B, Ruppert, A, Webb, E, Hawkins, R, Singer L, Schreck, C