Nora A. Janjan, M.D.
Professor: Radiation Oncology
and Symptom Control & Palliative Care

Dr. Janjan is board certified in Radiation Oncology with her major clinical and laboratory interest being in Gastrointestinal Malignances and cancer pain management.

Education:

• Medical School: University of Arizona
• Residency (Internal Medicine): Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Fellowship (Therapeutic Radiology): Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Key Appointments:

• Program Chair for the RSNA [Radiological Society of North America]
• Vice-Chair Governmental Affairs Committee - ASTRO [American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology]
• Chair - Patient Care Committee; ASTRO White Paper on the Scope of Radiation Oncology Practice
• American Pain Society Committee on revision of the AHCPR Guidelines for Cancer Pain Management
• Executive Committee-American Radium Society
• ASCO Program Committee

Selected References :

1. Spitz FR, Abbruzzese JL, Lee JE, Pisters PWT, Lowy AM, Fenoglio CJ, Cleary KR, Janjan NA, Goswitz MS, Rich TA, Evans DB. Preoperative and postoperative chemoradiation strategies in patients in patients treated with pancreaticoduodenectomy for adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. J Clin Onc 15:928-937, 1997.

2. Bouvet M, Staerkel GA, Spitz FR, Curley SA, Charnsangavej C, Hagemeister FB, Janjan NA, Pisters PWT, Evans DB. Primary pancreaticlymphoma. Surgery 1998; 123:382-390.

3. Max MB, Donovan M, Miaskowski CA, Gordon D, Ward SE, Coyle N, Bookbinder M, Kiss M, Thaler H, Cleeland CS, Janjan NA, Weinsteiin S. American Pain Society Quality of Care Committee. Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain and Cancer Pain. JAMA 274:1874-1880; 1995

4. Janjan NA, Cohen E, Adams M, Stewart E, Foley D, Varma R. Radiation Toerance of the Transplanted Liver: A Histopathologic Study in Three Cases. Am J Clin Onc; 17:129-133, 1994.