Dr. Hong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UAMS. He practices as a medical physicist at the Proton Center of Arkansas and works with the clinical team to ensure that high-quality radiation therapy is delivered to each patient with a focus on the latest proton and ion beam therapy research and developments. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai, China), MS in Biomedical Engineering from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Halle, Germany) and his Ph.D. in Medical Physics from German Cancer Research Center and Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany). Dr. Hong completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Physics at the German Cancer Research Center, residency training at Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, where he served as a therapeutic medical physicist as well. Dr. Hong also completed his Ion Beam Therapy clinical training at the Research Center Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy at National Institute of Radiological Sciences (Chiba, Japan) in 2016. Before joining UAMS, Dr. Hong has been working at the leading proton therapy industry IBA S.A. (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) for 4 years as Clinical Solution Manager of Particle Therapy Dosimetry and QA Business Line.
Dr. Hong’s clinical expertise includes advanced radiotherapy machine commissioning and quality assurance, image-guided and adaptive proton and ion beam therapy. His research interests include the development of novel machine and patient specific quality assurance tools, daily imaging and treatment log file based dose tracking and verification, Proton Arc and Adaptive therapy. Dr. Hong is the full member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), and serves at the ESTRO-EPTN guideline committee for Independent Dose Calculation and log-files based patient specific Quality Assurance in light ion beam therapy, the ESTRO Particle Arc Therapy Quality Assurance working group, and the AAPM Web and Social Media working group.