Formerly the Chief Medical Physicist at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute and currently the Chief Medical Physicist at Guangzhou Taihe Cancer Hospital; participated in the formulation of domestic radiotherapy quality control guidelines, led the establishment of the physics quality control system for proton therapy equipment, and built the physics technical platform for the ProBeam proton therapy system in South China.
Prof. Zuofeng Li, MD
| Speciality | Radiation Oncology Medical Physics |
| Affiliated Hospital : | Guangzhou Concord Cancer Center |
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| Language : | Chinese, English |
Overview
Current Hospital Appointments
Medical Physics Section, Department of Radiation Oncology
Academic & Professional Titles
- Chief Proton Physicist and Head of Medical Physics at Guangzhou Taihe Cancer Hospital; Chief Proton Physicist at CHJ Group.
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG); formerly Co-Chair of the PTCOG Imaging Committee and member of the Gynecologic and Breast Cancer Committee.
- Previously served as Vice-Chair and Chair of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Physics Committee, Chair of the Brachytherapy Subcommittee, and Lead of the High-Dose-Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy Working Group; participated in the development of numerous AAPM radiation therapy standards and guidelines for proton therapy and brachytherapy working groups.
- Visiting Professor at Soochow University (2022–2025); formerly Lead of the Proton Therapy Group within the Physics Committee of a US radiation therapy cooperative group.
Clinical Expertise
- Proton radiotherapy treatment planning, dosimetry, image-guided radiotherapy, and dose distribution calculation for brachytherapy.
Research & Publications
- Authored research papers—such as Dosimetric Comparison of Proton Intensity-Modulated Therapy and Photon Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Plans for Pancreatic Cancer—published in journals including the Chinese Journal of Radiological Medicine and Protection.
- Served as a lead translator for the book Proton Therapy: Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes (published by People’s Medical Publishing House), which compiles the clinical experience of the proton therapy team at MD Anderson.
- Co-led the Practical Guidelines for Total Body Irradiation Techniques project with Professor Fu Shen; the project was approved for development as a national radiotherapy quality control guideline by the National Quality Control Center for Cancer.
Honours & Awards
- Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
- Farrington Daniels Award for Best Paper in Dosimetry: 1
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