Hyunsuk Shim
PhD
Dr. Shim has expertise in spectroscopic MRI and brain tumors.
Titles and Roles
- Professor and Crocker Family Chair in Cancer Innovation, Department of Radiation Oncology
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Director, Promotions Committee, Department of Radiation Oncology
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Research Program
- Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics
Biography
Hyunsuk Shim, PhD, is Professor and Crocker Family Chair in Cancer Innovation and serves as Promotions Committee Director in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Shim has emerged as one of Georgia's most promising biomedical researchers and has been recognized as a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar and a member of the Council of Distinguished Investigators of the Academy of Radiology Research. She leads Emory University's NCI Quantitative Imaging Network team, which is working on groundbreaking research on glioblastoma using high resolution/high speed volumetric spectroscopic MRI.
Dr. Shim is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.
Education
Dr. Shim received her PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL.
Research
Dr. Shim's brain imaging team has developed an advanced MRSI technique combined with a multi-modality imaging platform to assess how glioblastomas are responding to therapies by quantitatively measuring metabolic processes. In addition, she leads the technical development of 3D whole-brain spectroscopic MRI to guide high dose radiation therapy for brain tumors.
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