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CURRICULUM VITAE

Selim Firat MD
Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Froedtert Specialty Clinics
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53226

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
06/2002 - Present Medical Director, Radiation Therapy Program, Froedtert Hospital Clinical Internship, University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
07/2011 - Present Radiation Oncology, Froedtert West Bend Hospital

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Active
Peer Review
Title:
A Phase II Study Analyzing Pulsed Reduced Dose Radiotherapy in Upfront Glioblastoma (PRORADGLIO Study)
Source:
MCW Protocol: PRO 39849
Role & Effort:
Sub-Investigator
PI:
Michael Straza, MD
Dates:
05/24/2021 - Present
  

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Hospital
2002 - 2022 Program Member, Intravascular Brachytherapy Program, Radiation Oncology, Froedtert Hospital
2004 - Present Program Member, Present Pediatric Neuro-oncology Multidisciplinary Program
2004 - Present Program Member, Present Pediatric Musculoskeletal Oncology Program
2004 - Present Program member, Present Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. li X, qi X, Mueller K, Jursinic P, Erickson B, Wang D, Schultz C, Firat S, Wilson J. SU‐FF‐J‐122: Systematic Study of Inter‐Fractional Variations for Anatomic Sites From Head to Feet Medical Physics. June 2006;33(6):2048.
2. qi X, Wang K, Siker M, Firat S, Erickson B, li X. SU‐FF‐J‐35: Severe Inter‐Fractional Anatomic Changes and Their Dosimetric Impact in Abdominal Irradiation, An Indication for Adaptive Re‐Planning Medical Physics. June 2009;36(6):2483.
3. Firat S, Jogal S. Proton therapy in the management of pediatric malignant tumors UHOD - Uluslararasi Hematoloji-Onkoloji Dergisi. 2009;19(1):53-57.
4. Kainz K, Firat S, Moulder J, Kalakota K, Bagley J, Li X. SU‐FF‐T‐595: Correlations of Organ Growth with Age, Body Mass, and Height for Pediatric Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Medical Physics. June 2009;36(6):2661.
5. Kainz K, Firat S, Wilson J, Li X. SU-E-T-438: Optimal Proton Beam Energy to Treat Adult CNS, Adult Head and Neck, and Pediatric Cancers. Med Phys. 2012 Jun;39(6Part16):3805.
6. Brinkerhoff BT, Choong NW, Massey BL, Gore EM, Firat SY, Wong SJ, Campbell BH, Schapira RM, Visotcky AM, Tripp PM. Diagnosis to treatment interval and outcome in patients with locally-advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck in a veterans affairs medical center Journal of Cancer Science and Therapy. 2012;4(5):111-115.
7. Kainz K, Wang W, Firat S, Wilson J, Schultz C, li X. SU‐E‐CAMPUS‐T‐04: Plan Quality of Proton Vs. Photon IMRT for Whole Ventricle Irradiation Medical Physics. June 2013;40(6):380.
8. Hirsch T, Stadler M, Campbell B, FIRAT S, Massey B, Schultz C, Shukla M, Wong S, Robbins J. Post-Treatment evaluation of Head and neck cancer patients in the era of advanced imaging and value-based care. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2018; 36(15):6079-6079.
9. Fırat S, Gül H, Sertçelik M, Gül A, Gürel Y, Kılıç BG. The relationship between problematic smartphone use and psychiatric symptoms among adolescents who applied to psychiatry clinics. Psychiatry Res. 2018 Dec;270:97-103.
10. Ilarslan NEC, Gunay F, Haskologlu ZS, Bal SK, Tezcaner ZC, Kirsaclioglu CT, Firat S, Altuntas C, Ciftci B, Ozgursoy OB, Cobanoglu N. Evaluation of children with chronic cough including obstructive sleep apnea: a single-center experience. Eur J Pediatr. 2019 Feb;178(2):189-197.
11. Hallemeier CL, Zhang P, Pisansky TM, Hanks GE, McGowan DG, Roach M 3rd, Zeitzer KL, Firat SY, Husain SM, D'Souza DP, Souhami L, Parliament MB, Rosenthal SA, Lukka HR, Rotman M, Horwitz EM, Miles EF, Paulus R, Sandler HM. Prostate-Specific Antigen After Neoadjuvant Androgen Suppression in Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Short-Term Androgen Suppression and External Beam Radiation Therapy: Pooled Analysis of Four NRG Oncology Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Randomized Clinical Trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2019 Aug 01;104(5):1057-1065. PMCID: PMC6646073
12. Xiao J, Browning MB, Boyd KP, Suchi M, Turaga KK, Firat SY, Mortland LJ, Lal DR. Multimodal Therapy Including Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy Can Result in Long-term Disease-free Survival in Pediatric Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor With Extraperitoneal Disease. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Aug 01;43(6):228-231.
13. Ponce SB, Chhabra S, Hari P, Firat S. Pretransplant Splenic Irradiation in Patients With Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2022;7(5):100964. PMCID: PMC9130078
 
Abstracts
1. Klawikowski S, Lim S, Zhang Y, Plautz T, Nasief H, Schott D, Prior P, FIRAT S, Tai A. Pediatric Total Skin Commissioning on Siemens Artiste Linear Accelerator. Joint AAPM/COMP 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, July 12-16.
2. Robbins JR, Stadler M, Shukla ME, FIRAT S, Massey, Campbell B, Schultz C, Wong SJ. CAPTN: A Nomogram for Predicting Survival and Guiding Therapy for Patients with de novo Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. J Clin Onc. 2018 May; 36(15 Suppl)S6041
3. Quinn C, Robbins J, Shukla M, FIRAT S, Massey B, Schultz C, Wong S, Campbell S, Stadler M. Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Major Salivary Glands: Analysis of Prognostic Factors in 2,950 patients; 2018 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancers Symposium, February 15-17, Scottsdale, Arizona. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018;110(5): 1379.
4. TS Johnson, D Aguilera, A Al-Basheer, RM Cooksey, BR Eaton, N Esiashvili, S FIRAT, J Fiveash, N Foreman, D Fridlyand, GK Friedman, CA giller, DR Grosshans, IM Heger, M Kelly, EP Kennedy, J Knipstein, RB Kolhe, AK Liu, W Martin, WF Mourad, R Pacholczyk, R Parker, AM Rojiani, RS Sadek, A Thornton, NV Vahanian, T MacDonald and D Munn. PDCT-06. Radio-immunotherapy using the IDO-inhibitor indoximod in combination with re-irradiation for children with progressive brain tumors in the phase 1 setting: An updated report of safety and tolerability. Neuro-Oncology 2017; 19(Suppl6): vi185.
5. Kainz K, LIM SN, Chen GP, Lawton CAF, Siker ML, FIRAT S, Robbins JR, Erickson BA, and Li A. Initial Clinical Experience with Using an Automated Dose Tracking Tool to Verify Dose Delivery and Trigger Adaptive Replanning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017;99(2S): S222
6. Johnson TS, Aguilera D, Eaton BR, Esiashvili N, Firat S, Fiveash J, Foreman N, Friydland D, Friedman G, Giller CA, Grosshans D, Heger IM, Kelly M, Kennedy EP, Kolhe RB, Liu A, Martin W, Mourad WF, Pacholczyk R, Parker R, Rojiani AM, Sadek RF, Vahanian NN, Macdonald TJ, Munn DH. Safety and tolerability of combining Ido-inhibitor indoximod with re-irradiation for pediatric patients with progressive brain tumors treated on the NLG-2105 phase I trial (NCT02502708). American Society of Hematology/Oncology meeting 2017
7. Straza MH, Currey A, Firat, S, Johnstone C, Santana-Davila R, Menon S, Gore E. The Safety and Efficacy of Thoracic Reirradiation. 16th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Denver, Colorado., September 6 - 9 2015. Journal of Thoracic Oncology; 10(S2); S652.
8. Strobel K, Simpson P, Donohoue P, Firat S, and Jogal S. Impact of Age At Diagnosis on Obesity in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors. 16th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO), Singapore, June 2014
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10. Rusch R, Belongia M, Maheshwari M, and Firat S. Rradiation Recall of The Central Nervous System in Two Pediatric Patients with Atypical Teratoid/ Rhabdoid Tumor. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology. Neuro-Oncology 2013;15:81
11. Kelly TG, Midia CE, Guleria S, Jogal S, Maheshwari M., Segall HD, and FIRAT S: MR Imaging of Pediatric Pineal Gland Lesions. 51st annual ASNR meeting, May 2013, San Diego, CA
12. Kainz K, Firat S, Schultz C, Wilson JF, Li XA, Plan quality of proton vs. photon IG-IMRT. Proceedings of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 54th Annual Meeting. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2012;84(3S): S641 - 642
13. Kainz K, Firat S, Wilson JF, Li XA, Optimal proton beam energy to treat adult CNS, adult head and neck, and pediatric cancers, American Association of Medical Physicists, Charlotte, NC, 7/29/2012 - 8/2/2012
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15. Yang C , Liu F, Chang Y, Lawton C, Wang D, Schultz C, Firat S, Erickson B, Li X. Using an Online Adaptive Replanning Tool for Offline Adaptive Radiotherapy. Proceedings of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 52nd Annual Meeting. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2011;81(2S): S850
16. Rangarajan HG, Kieran MW, Scott RM, Lew SM, Firat SY, Segura AD, and Jogal SA. Recurrent Papillary Tumor of The Pineal Region (PTPR) in a Pediatric Patient: A Brief Report. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology. Neuro-Oncology 2011;13:62.
17. A. Marwaha, N. W. Choong, S. FIRAT, C. J. Schultz, D. Wang, S. J. Wong. Clinical efficacy and tolerability of continuous course reirradiation with concurrent weekly carboplatin-paclitaxel for locally recurrent, non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck cancer (SCCHN). Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 46th Annual Meeting. J Clin Oncol 2010;28(15S): 425s.