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Greg Bednarz, PhD, DABR

  • Clinical Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Radiation Oncology
  • Principle Medical Physicist, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Greg Bednarz, PhD, DABR, is a medical physicist who specializes in Gamma Knife radiosurgery. His clinical interests and research focuses on Gamma Knife radiosurgery, small radiation fields dosimetry, and clinical outcomes. 

    Education & Training

  • MSc: Physics, Technical University of Lodz, Poland, 1983
  • PhD: Physics, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1992
  • Post-doctoral fellow: Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1992–1993
  • Research Associate: Department of Radiological Sciences Division of Physics and Engineering, University of California,1993–1994
  • Residency: Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, 1994–1996
Awards
Star Employee, Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hospital, 2005 & 2006
William Leiper Memorial Scholarship (Canada), 1990 & 1991
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (Canada), 1989–1991
Representative Publications

PubMed® Link: Greg Bednarz, PhD, DABR

Research Grants

11/2009-3/2018: RTOG Study 0920, “Randomized Phase III Trial of Postoperative Radiotherapy +/- Cetuximab for Intermediate Risk Resected Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck”, Co-P.I, P.I. Mitchell Machtay, MD. Supported by grants U10CA180868 (NRG Oncology Operations), UG1CA 189867 (NCORP), U10CA180822 (NRG Oncology SDMC), U24CA196067 (NRG Specimen Bank), U24CA180803 (IROC), all from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)