May 1st, 2019 Robert C. Miller, MD, MBA, FASTRO and Nasar Onyeukyu, MD Several medical team members from the Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC), including Robert C. Miller, MD, MBA, FASTRO, Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Medical Director of MPTC, [...]

April 29th, 2019 William F. Regine, MD, FACR, FACRO The Daily Record selected William F. Regine, MD, FACR, FACRO, the Isadore and Fannie Schneider Foxman Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the Executive Director of MPTC, to receive a [...]

April 24th, 2019 Maryland Proton Treatment Center nursing secretary Sophia San Juan was selected by the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) as the winner of the Administrative Professionals People's Choice Award. She was voted by her UMMC Downtown Campus colleagues as someone who best embodies the C2X Safety Standards and [...]

April 3, 2019 Treatment Room At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, Varian, in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Radiation Oncology and the Maryland Proton Treatment Center, presented publicly the first pre-clinical results of its research [...]

April 1, 2019 The May 2019 issue of Baltimore magazine celebrates the top 75 nurses in the region for their extraordinary contributions to healthcare. The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC) is proud to announce that Senior Clinical Nurse Catherine Palmeri was selected as one of the top nurses. Catherine goes [...]

March 4, 2019 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center was recently featured in the Baltimore Business Journal Cool Digs section, which features modern office spaces around Greater Baltimore. The article explains that the cyclotron, a 90-ton machine, produces a proton beam able to reach across five treatment rooms, roughly the wingspan [...]

February 18, 2019 Maryland Proton Treatment Center Radiation Therapist Racee Taylor was recently featured in an article in the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Scanner, a bimonthly newsletter for radiation therapy professionals. In the article, titled “Mask Painting 101,” Racee talks about her work painting radiation therapy masks for patients. [...]

January 17, 2019 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center is proud to participate in several clinical trials, including the RadComp breast cancer research study featured in a new video. The understanding and treatment of cancer has advanced over the years due in large part to the additional knowledge clinical trials have [...]

January 15, 2019 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC) has named Dr. Morton I. Rapoport and Dr. Harry C. Knipp, two highly regarded members of Maryland’s healthcare and business communities, to its board of directors. Dr. Rapoport served for nearly 20 years as president and CEO of the University of [...]

December 12, 2018 The Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC), the first center in the region to use proton therapy to treat cancer, announced today that it has named Jaime LePage as senior operations manager. LePage will be responsible for the center’s patient experience, working closely with the entire MPTC team [...]