Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Torunn I Yock

Biography

 Dr. Yock completed her B.S. in genetics and ethics from Duke University on full academic scholarship as a National Merit and Angier B. Duke Scholar. She then acquired a Masters in Community Health as a Fulbright Scholar and from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and subsequently an MD from Harvard Medical School. Her residency was at Massachusetts General Hospital. She currently serves as the Chief of Pediatric Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and as an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, where she teaches residents, fellow, medical student and PhD students as well as lecturing in multiple continuing medical education classes.  She is an internationally recognized expert in pediatric radiation oncology and serves on multiple committees for the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and Children s Oncology Group (COG) and the American Board of Radiology in the certification process of new and tenured radiation oncologists

Research Interest

• Pediatric oncology,Pediatric tumors,Pediatric brain tumors,Pediatric malignancies,Proton Radiation Therapy,Thoracic oncology