Ralph E Vatner , MD,PhD

Bachelor of Arts: Haverford College Pennsylvania , 2000 (Chemistry)

Ph.D.: University of Connecticut School of Medicine Connecticut, 2010 (Biomedical Science, Immunology)

Medical Degree: University of Connecticut School of Medicine Farmington, CT, 2010 (Medicine)

Intern: Mount Sinai Medical Center Florida, 2011 (Internal Medicine)

Residency: New York University School of Medicine New York, 2014 (Radiation Oncology)

Fellowship: Harvard Medical School, Francis H. Burr Proton Center Massachusetts, 2016 (Pediatric Proton Therapy )

American Board of Radiology (Radiation Oncology) (Certification Date: 05-17-2016 )

Leukemia

Radiation Oncology

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Adenocarcinoma

Adenosquamous Carcinoma

Bone Marrow Cancers

Brain Cancers

Brain Metastases

Brain Stem Tumor

Brain Tumor

Cancer

Central Nervous System Tumors

Cerebellar Cancers

Cerebral Arterial Disease

Cerebral Contusion

Cerebral Hemorrhage

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

Cerebral Ventricle Tumor

Chondrosarcoma

Chordoma

Ependymoblastoma

Ewing Sarcoma

Ganglioneuroblastoma

Glioma

Glioneuronal Tumor

Gliosarcoma

Infratentorial Cancers

Leptomeningeal Disease

Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor

Medulloblastoma

Metastasis Cancers

Neoplasm

Nerve Sheath Tumors

Nerve Tumors

Neurilemmoma

Neuroblastoma

Neurocytoma

Neurofibrosarcoma

Olfactory Neuroblastoma (Esthesioneuroblastoma)

Osteogenic Sarcoma (Osteosarcoma)

Pineoblastoma

Plexiform Neurofibroma

Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

Primary Central Nervous System (CNS) Lymphoma

Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors

Retinoblastoma

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Skull-Base Tumors

Spinal Cord Cancer

Spinal Tumors

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Subependymal Glioma

T-cell lymphoma

T-Cell, Cutaneous Lymphoma

T-Cell, Peripheral Lymphoma

Radiation Oncology

08-2015 -07-2016 Pediatric Proton Therapy Fellow, Francis H. Burr Proton Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

07-2014 -06-2015 Chief Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York

07-2011 -06-2014 Residency, Department of Radiation Oncology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York

06-2010 -06-2011 Intern, Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida

Grant: #Contract No. 475524 Investigators:Ionascu, Traian; Lamba, Michael; Takiar, Vinita; Vatner, Ralph 08-02-2019 -07-31-2020 Department of Energy Evaluating Equivalence of Cellular Response to X-ray and Gamma Irradiation of Varying Energies Role:Collaborator $53,489.25 Active Level:Federal

Peer Reviewed Publications

Medek, Sara; De, Brian; Pater, Luke; Breneman, John; Mahajan, Anita; Wolden, Suzanne; Vatner, Ralph E (2019. ) Practice patterns among radiation oncologists treating pediatric patients with proton craniospinal irradiation.Practical radiation oncology, , More Information

Vatner, Ralph E; Janssen, Edith M (2019. ) STING, DCs and the link between innate and adaptive tumor immunity.Molecular immunology, , 110 ,13-23 More Information

Turpin, Brian; Pressey, Joseph G; Nagarajan, Rajaram; Weiss, Brian D; Trout, Andrew T; Gelfand, Michael J; Pater, Luke; Vatner, Ralph E; Breneman, John C; Dasgupta, Roshni (2019. ) Sentinel lymph node biopsy in head and neck rhabdomyosarcoma.Pediatric blood & cancer, , 66 (3 ) ,e27532 More Information

Vatner, Ralph E; Niemierko, Andrzej; Misra, Madhusmita; Weyman, Elizabeth A; Goebel, Claire P; Ebb, David H; Jones, Robin M; Huang, Mary S; Mahajan, Anita; Grosshans, David R; Paulino, Arnold C; Stanley, Takara; MacDonald, Shannon M; Tarbell, Nancy J; Yock, Torunn I (2018. ) Endocrine Deficiency As a Function of Radiation Dose to the Hypothalamus and Pituitary in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Brain Tumors.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, , 36 (28 ) ,2854-2862 More Information

4. Sertorio M, Perentesis JP, Vatner RE, Mascia AE, Zheng Y, Wells SI. (2018. ) Cancer cell metabolism: implications for X-ray and particle radiation therapy. .Cancer cell metabolism: implications for X-ray and particle radiation therapy. International Journal of Particle Therapy, , 5 (1 ) ,

Shin SM, Vatner RE, Tam M, Golfinos JG, Narayana A, Kondziolka D, Silverman JS (2015. ) Resection Followed by Involved-Field Fractionated Radiotherapy in the Management of Single Brain Metastasis. .Front Oncol. , , 5 (206 ) , More Information

Vatner RE, Cooper BT, Vanpouille-Box C, Demaria S, Formenti SC. (2014. ) Combinations of Immunotherapy and Radiation in Cancer Therapy.Front Oncol. , , 4 (325 ) , More Information

Vatner RE and Formenti SC (2015. ) Myeloid Derived Cells in Tumors: Effects of Radiation.Semin Radiat Oncol, , 25 (1 ) ,18 More Information

Vatner RE, Srivastava PK (2010. ) The tailless complex polypeptide-1 ring complex of the heat shock protein 60 family facilitates cross-priming of CD8 responses specific for chaperoned peptides.J Immunol, , 185 (11 ) ,6765 More Information

Vatner, Ralph; James, Charles D; Sathiaseelan, Vythialingam; Bondra, Kathryn M; Kalapurakal, John A; Houghton, Peter J (2020. ) Radiation therapy and molecular-targeted agents in preclinical testing for immunotherapy, brain tumors, and sarcomas: Opportunities and challenges.Pediatric blood & cancer, , e28439 More Information

Eaton, Bree R; Schwarz, Rudolf; Vatner, Ralph; Yeh, Brian; Claude, Line; Indelicato, Daniel J; Laack, Nadia (2020. ) Osteosarcoma.Pediatric blood & cancer, , e28352 More Information

Sabulski, Anthony; Bartlett, Allison L; Koch, Bernadette L; Vatner, Ralph; Mizukawa, Benjamin; Phillips, Christine L (2020. ) Hyperdiploid Precursor B-acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting as a Cavernous Sinus Mass in a 4-Year-old Male.Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology, , More Information

Lawell, Miranda P; Indelicato, Daniel J; Paulino, Arnold C; Hartsell, William; Laack, Nadia N; Ermoian, Ralph P; Perentesis, John P; Vatner, Ralph; Perkins, Stephanie; Mangona, Victor S; Hill-Kayser, Christine E; Wolden, Suzanne L; Kwok, Young; Chang, John Han-Chih; Wilkinson, J Ben; MacEwan, Iain; Chang, Andrew L; Eaton, Bree R; Ladra, Matthew M; Gallotto, Sara L; Weyman, Elizabeth A; Bajaj, Benjamin V M; Baliga, Sujith; Yeap, Beow Y; Berrington de Gonzalez, Amy; Yock, Torunn I (2020. ) An open invitation to join the Pediatric Proton/Photon Consortium Registry to standardize data collection in pediatric radiation oncology.The British journal of radiology, , 93 (1107 ) ,20190673 More Information

Sertorio, Mathieu; Perentesis, John P; Vatner, Ralph E; Mascia, Anthony E; Zheng, Yi; Wells, Susanne I (2018. ) Cancer Cell Metabolism: Implications for X-ray and Particle Radiation Therapy.International journal of particle therapy, , 5 (1 ) ,40-48 More Information

Williams, Michael T; Sugimoto, Chiho; Regan, Samantha L; Pitzer, Emily M; Fritz, Adam L; Sertorio, Mathieu; Mascia, Anthony E; Vatner, Ralph E; Perentesis, John P; Vorhees, Charles V (2022. ) Cognitive and behavioral effects of whole brain conventional or high dose rate (FLASH) proton irradiation in a neonatal Sprague Dawley rat model.PloS one, , 17 (9 ) ,e0274007 More Information

Howell, Jackson; Dandoy, Christopher; Wright, Jordan M; Chow, Lionel; El-Sheikh, Ayman; Dole, Mukund; Vatner, Ralph E; Kamian, Kambiz (2022. ) Extraneural recurrence of an intracranial nongerminomatous germ cell tumor to cervical lymph nodes in a pediatric patient: Case report.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.), , 5 (8 ) ,e1586 More Information

Vorhees, C V; Vatner, R E; Williams, M T (2021. ) Review of Conventional and High Dose Rate Brain Radiation (FLASH): Neurobehavioural, Neurocognitive and Assessment Issues in Rodent Models.Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)), , 33 (11 ) ,e482-e491 More Information

Eaton, Bree R; Claude, Line; Indelicato, Daniel J; Vatner, Ralph; Yeh, Brian; Schwarz, Rudolf; Laack, Nadia (2021. ) Ewing sarcoma.Pediatric blood & cancer, , 68 Suppl 2 ,e28355 More Information

Williams, Michael T; Sugimoto, Chiho; Regan, Samantha L; Pitzer, Emily M; Fritz, Adam L; Mascia, Anthony E; Sertorio, Mathieu; Vatner, Ralph E; Perentesis, John P; Vorhees, Charles V (2020. ) Whole brain proton irradiation in adult Sprague Dawley rats produces dose dependent and non-dependent cognitive, behavioral, and dopaminergic effects.Scientific reports, , 10 (1 ) ,21584 More Information

Williams, Michael T; Sugimoto, Chiho; Regan, Samantha L; Pitzer, Emily M; Fritz, Adam L; Sertorio, Mathieu; Mascia, Anthony E; Vatner, Ralph E; Perentesis, John P; Vorhees, Charles V (2022. ) Cognitive and behavioral effects of whole brain conventional or high dose rate (FLASH) proton irradiation in a neonatal Sprague Dawley rat model.PloS one, , 17 (9 ) ,e0274007 More Information

Howell, Jackson; Dandoy, Christopher; Wright, Jordan M; Chow, Lionel; El-Sheikh, Ayman; Dole, Mukund; Vatner, Ralph E; Kamian, Kambiz (2022. ) Extraneural recurrence of an intracranial nongerminomatous germ cell tumor to cervical lymph nodes in a pediatric patient: Case report.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.), , 5 (8 ) ,e1586 More Information

Vorhees, C V; Vatner, R E; Williams, M T (2021. ) Review of Conventional and High Dose Rate Brain Radiation (FLASH): Neurobehavioural, Neurocognitive and Assessment Issues in Rodent Models.Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)), , 33 (11 ) ,e482-e491 More Information

Eaton, Bree R; Claude, Line; Indelicato, Daniel J; Vatner, Ralph; Yeh, Brian; Schwarz, Rudolf; Laack, Nadia (2021. ) Ewing sarcoma.Pediatric blood & cancer, , 68 Suppl 2 ,e28355 More Information

Williams, Michael T; Sugimoto, Chiho; Regan, Samantha L; Pitzer, Emily M; Fritz, Adam L; Mascia, Anthony E; Sertorio, Mathieu; Vatner, Ralph E; Perentesis, John P; Vorhees, Charles V (2020. ) Whole brain proton irradiation in adult Sprague Dawley rats produces dose dependent and non-dependent cognitive, behavioral, and dopaminergic effects.Scientific reports, , 10 (1 ) ,21584 More Information

Member American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO),

Member Pediatric Radiation Oncology Society,

Academic - UC Health Barrett Cancer Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
Cincinnati  Ohio, 45267-0757
Phone: 513-584-5327
Fax: 513-584-4007
vatnerrh@ucmail.uc.edu