Posts by Helen Shih, MD
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Find Your Champion: Treating Patients Diagnosed With Cancer and Substance Use Disorder
Throughout the last decade of her career, Helen Shih, MD, has pursued solutions to the addiction crisis and sought to better understand the struggles of patients diagnosed with cancer and substance use disorder. Learn more in this Q&A.
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Tracking Outcomes in Proton Therapy for Cancer
Massachusetts General Hospital clinician-researchers work to define which patients can benefit most from advanced proton therapy for cancer.
Biography
Helen Shih, MD, MS, MPH, FASTRO, is a practicing radiation oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to Mass General, Dr. Shih earned her undergraduate degree in biology at Brown University, and medical school education at the University of Pennsylvania where she also earned a Master's Degree in Cell & Molecular Biology. She completed an internship year at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI before radiation oncology residency at Mass General. She has a Master's in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Shih remained on staff at Mass General after her training and is the Director of the Central Nervous System & Eye Services. She cares for the full range of patients with benign to malignant diagnoses and both primary and metastatic diseases. She is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and is the Medical Director of the Mass General Proton Therapy Centers.
Dr. Shih’s research interests are in clinical and translational efforts to better define the role of radiation therapy in the management of her broad spectrum of patients. Subspecialty interests include improving our understanding and use of proton therapy and understanding the effects of ionizing radiation on normal tissues, primarily the brain, and how best to reduce the risk of radiation-associated injury. Yet another area of interest is addressing drug addiction through education to reduce stigma, novel research efforts towards better prevention and treatment, and advancing community-based services.
Mass General Cancer Center
An integral part of one of the world’s most distinguished academic medical centers, the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center is among the leading cancer care providers in the United States.
