About Ritsuko U. Komaki

Dr. Ritsuko Komaki is an Emeritus Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she held the Gloria Lupton Tennison Distinguished Professorship in Lung Cancer Research. She received her medical degree from Hiroshima University School of Medicine in Hiroshima, Japan, and completed her residency and fellowship in Radiation Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

She was the Co-Chair of the Lung Committee of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and PI of RTOG- 0239. She sits on the PDQ Extramural Board of Associate Editors at the National Cancer Institute, is an ABR Oral Board Examiner, a member of the National Council Radiation Protection (NCRP), an executive committee member of International Association Study for the Lung Cancer (IASLC) and Women Against Lung Cancer (WALC), a member of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) for the Lung Cancer, Chair of American College of Radiology (ACR) appropriateness of management of Lung Cancer, and past Chair of Radiation Oncology for the Texas Radiological Society.

She also serves as a Principal Investigator for RTOG at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and is Chair of the ASTRO Education Committee. From 2000 to 2001, she served as President of the American Association for Women Radiologists (AAWR).