AlanPollackMD

Radiation Oncology • Miami, FL

Professor of Radiation Oncology, University Miami School of Medicine

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Office
1475 Nw 12th Ave
Suite 1500
Miami, FL 33136
Phone+1 305-243-4916

Fax+1 305-243-4363
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Education & Training

University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer CenterResidency, Radiation Oncology, 1988 - 1992
University of Miami/Jackson Health SystemInternship, Internal Medicine, 1987 - 1988
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of MedicineClass of 1987

Certifications & Licensure

FL State Medical License 2008 - 2025
PA State Medical License 1991 - 2008
TX State Medical License 1992 - 2002
American Board of Radiology Radiation Oncology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com

Clinical Trials

Radiation Therapy With or Without Androgen-Deprivation Therapy in Treating Patients With Prostate Cancer Start of enrollment: 2009 Sep 01
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
MRI-Guided Lattice Extreme Ablative Dose Radiotherapy For Prostate Cancer Start of enrollment: 2011 Dec 27
Completed
Not Applicable
Hypofractionated Image-Guided Radiotherapy For Prostate Cancer: The HEIGHT Trial Start of enrollment: 2011 Oct 31
Completed
Not Applicable
MRI-Mapped Dose-Escalated Salvage Radiotherapy Post-Prostatectomy: The MAPS Trial Start of enrollment: 2012 Jul 12
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Radiation Hypofractionation Via Extended Versus Accelerated Therapy (HEAT) For Prostate Cancer Start of enrollment: 2013 Apr 04
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Trial of Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Active Surveillance With or Without MRI-Guided Management Start of enrollment: 2012 Aug 01
Withdrawn
Metabolic Tumor Volumes in Radiation Treatment of Primary Brain Tumors Start of enrollment: 2011 Jun 08
Completed
Chemoradiation for Bladder Preservation After Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Start of enrollment: 2016 Jan 05
Terminated
Not Applicable
MRI Based Active Selection for Treatment Trial Start of enrollment: 2014 Nov 12
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Randomized MRI-Guided Prostate Boosts Via Initial Lattice Stereotactic vs Daily Moderately Hypofractionated Radiotherapy Start of enrollment: 2015 Feb 05
Recruiting
Not Applicable
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Activation of Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING): Promising Strategy to Overcome Immune Resistance in Prostate Cancer.
Alnukhali, M., Altabbakh, O., Farooqi, A., Daunert, S., Deo, S., Tao, W., Pollack, A.> ;Current Medicinal Chemistry. 2024 Feb 12
Uncovering prostate cancer aggressiveness signal in T2-weighted MRI through a three-reference tissues normalization technique.
Ahmad Algohary, Evangelia I Zacharaki, Adrian L Breto, Mohammad Alhusseini, Veronica Wallaengen, Isaac R Xu, Sandra M Gaston, Sanoj Punnen, Patricia Castillo, Pradip M...> ;NMR in Biomedicine. 2024 Mar 1
Clinical-Genomic Risk Group Classification of Suspicious Lesions on Prostate Multiparametric-MRI.
Radka Stoyanova, Olmo Zavala-Romero, Deukwoo Kwon, Adrian L Breto, Isaac R Xu, Ahmad Algohary, Mohammad Alhusseini, Sandra M Gaston, Patricia Castillo, Oleksandr N Kry...> ;Cancers. 2023 Oct 31
2 citations
Targeted Bioluminescent Imaging of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Using Nanocarrier-Complexed EGFR-Binding Affibody-Gaussia Luciferase Fusion Protein.
Jessica Hersh, Yu-Ping Yang, Evan Roberts, Daniel Bilbao, Wensi Tao, Alan Pollack, Sylvia Daunert, Sapna K Deo> ;Pharmaceutics. 2023 Jul 19
Radiation nephropathy: Mechanisms of injury and recovery in a murine model.
Anis Ahmad, Junwei Shi, Saba Ansari, Sandra Merscher, Alan Pollack, Youssef Zeidan, Alessia Fornoni, Brian Marples> ;Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2023 Oct 1
Radiogenomic profiling of prostate tumors prior to external beam radiotherapy converges on a transcriptomic signature of TGF-β activity driving tumor recurrence.
Anson T Ku, Uma Shankavaram, Shana Y Trostel, Hong Zhang, Houssein A Sater, Stephanie A Harmon, Nicole V Carrabba, Yang Liu, Bradford J Wood, Peter A Pinto, Peter L Ch...> ;Medrxiv. 2023 May 2
Classifying Malignancy in Prostate Glandular Structures from Biopsy Scans with Deep Learning.
Ryan Fogarty, Dmitry Goldgof, Lawrence Hall, Alex Lopez, Joseph Johnson, Manoj Gadara, Radka Stoyanova, Sanoj Punnen, Alan Pollack, Julio Pow-Sang, Yoganand Balaguruna...> ;Cancers. 2023 Apr 17
Distinct Profiles of DNA Repair Activity Define Favorable-risk Prostate Cancer Subtypes With Divergent Outcome.
Nishwant Swami, Tiffany Nguyen, Ifeanyichukwu Ogobuiro, Matthew Abramowitz, Fallon Chipidza, Elai Davicioni, Alan Dal Pra, Paul L Nguyen, Alan Pollack, Sanoj Punnen, B...> ;Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 2023 Feb 1
2 citations
active-targeting fluorescence molecular imaging with adaptive background fluorescence subtraction.
Jorge D Vega, Daiki Hara, Ryder M Schmidt, Marwan B Abuhaija, Wensi Tao, Nesrin Dogan, Alan Pollack, John C Ford, Junwei Shi> ;Frontiers in Oncology. 2023 Jan 1
7 citations
Analysis of a Biopsy-Based Genomic Classifier in High-Risk Prostate Cancer: Meta-Analysis of the NRG Oncology/Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 9202, 9413, and 9902 Pha...
Paul L Nguyen, Huei-Chung Rebecca Huang, Daniel E Spratt, Elai Davicioni, Howard M Sandler, William U Shipley, Jason A Efstathiou, Jeffry P Simko, Alan Pollack, Adam P...> ;International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2023 Jul 1
5 citations
Long-Term Results of a Phase 3 Randomized Prospective Trial of Erectile Tissue-Sparing Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Men With Clinically Localized Prostate...
Eddie Zhang, Karen J Ruth, Mark K Buyyounouski, Robert A Price Jr, Robert G Uzzo, Mark L Sobczak, Alan Pollack, J Karen Wong, David Y T Chen, Mark A Hallman, Richard E...> ;International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2023 Apr 1
3 citations
Boosted Radiation Bystander Effect of PSMA-Targeted Gold Nanoparticles in Prostate Cancer Radiosensitization.
Daiki Hara, Wensi Tao, Ryder M Schmidt, Yu-Ping Yang, Sylvia Daunert, Nesrin Dogan, John Chetley Ford, Alan Pollack, Junwei Shi> ;Nanomaterials. 2022 Dec 14
A latent class analysis of health behavior changes after cancer diagnosis among Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors.
Blanca S Noriega Esquives, Sara M St George, Patricia I Moreno, Tae Kyoung Lee, Edgar Munoz, Thomas Lad, Alan Pollack, Courtney M P Hollowell, Amelie G Ramirez, Frank ...> ;Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 2022 Dec 2
5 citations
Quantifying Radiosensitization of PSMA-Targeted Gold Nanoparticles on Prostate Cancer Cells at Megavoltage Radiation Energies by Monte Carlo Simulation and Local Effec...
Ryder M Schmidt, Daiki Hara, Jorge D Vega, Marwan B Abuhaija, Wensi Tao, Nesrin Dogan, Alan Pollack, John C Ford, Junwei Shi> ;Pharmaceutics. 2022 Oct 17
2 citations
SMPDL3b modulates radiation-induced DNA damage response in renal podocytes.
Marina Francis, Anis Ahmad, Larry Bodgi, Patrick Azzam, Tarek Youssef, Alaa Abou Daher, Assaad A Eid, Alessia Fornoni, Alan Pollack, Brian Marples, Youssef H Zeidan> ;FASEB Journal. 2022 Oct 1
Assessment of IMPT versus VMAT plans using different uncertainty scenarios for prostate cancer.
Michael P Butkus, Nellie Brovold, Tejan Diwanji, Yihang Xu, Mariluz De Ornelas, Alan Dal Pra, Matt Abramowitz, Alan Pollack, Nesrin Dogan> ;Radiation Oncology. 2022 Sep 29
1 citations
The addition of pelvic lymph node treatment to prostate bed salvage radiotherapy - Authors' reply.
Alan Pollack, Theodore G Karrison, Felix Feng, Oliver Sartor, Howard M Sandler> ;Lancet. 2022 Sep 17
3 citations
Longitudinal Changes and Predictive Value of Multiparametric MRI Features for Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with MRI-Guided Lattice Extreme Ablative Dose (LEAD) Boo...
Ahmad Algohary, Mohammad Alhusseini, Adrian L Breto, Deukwoo Kwon, Isaac R Xu, Sandra M Gaston, Patricia Castillo, Sanoj Punnen, Benjamin Spieler, Matthew C Abramowitz...> ;Cancers. 2022 Sep 15
5 citations
Para-Aortic Radiation Therapy for Oligorecurrent Prostate Cancer.
Benjamin J Rich, Chris Montoya, William H Jin, Benjamin O Spieler, Brandon A Mahal, Rodrigo Delgadillo, Marijo Bilusic, Matthew C Abramowitz, Alan Pollack, Alan Dal Pra> ;International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2022 Nov 15
18 citations
Validation of the Decipher genomic classifier in patients receiving salvage radiotherapy without hormone therapy after radical prostatectomy - an ancillary study of th...
A Dal Pra, P Ghadjar, S Hayoz, V Y T Liu, D E Spratt, D J S Thompson, E Davicioni, H-C Huang, X Zhao, Y Liu, C Schär, P Gut, L Plasswilm, T Hölscher, B Polat, G Hildeb...> ;Annals of Oncology. 2022 Sep 1
69 citations
The addition of androgen deprivation therapy and pelvic lymph node treatment to prostate bed salvage radiotherapy (NRG Oncology/RTOG 0534 SPPORT): an international, mu...
Alan Pollack, Theodore G Karrison, Alexander G Balogh, Leonard G Gomella, Daniel A Low, Deborah W Bruner, Jeffrey S Wefel, Andre-Guy Martin, Jeff M Michalski, Steve J ...> ;Lancet. 2022 May 14
2 citations
Experimental Support for the Possibility of Retrograde Genesis of Intraductal Carcinoma of the Prostate.
Oleksandr N Kryvenko, Sanoj Punnen, Thirupandiyur S Udayakumar, Sandra M Gaston, Wensi Tao, Wendi Ma, Radka Stoyanova, Alan Pollack> ;International Journal of Surgical Pathology. 2023 Apr 1
7 citations
Clinicogenomic characterization of prostate cancer liver metastases.
Mohammed Alshalalfa, Crystal Seldon, Idalid Franco, Randy Vince, Ruben Carmona, Sanoj Punnen, Salma Kaochar, Robert Dess, Amar Kishan, Daniel E Spratt, Janaki Sharma, ...> ;Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 2022 Feb 1
4 citations
A personalized decision aid for prostate cancer shared decision making.
Hilary P Bagshaw, Alejandro Martinez, Nastaran Heidari, David Scheinker, Alan Pollack, Radka Stoyanova, Eric Horwitz, Gerard Morton, Amar U Kishan, Mark K Buyyounouski> ;BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2021 Dec 31
2 citations
Interactions of Urea-Based Inhibitors with Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
Qiaoyu Hu, Kevin Padron, D. Hara, Junwei Shi, Alan Pollack, Rajeev Prabhakar, Wensi Tao> ;ACS Omega. 2021 Dec 1
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Press Mentions

Sylvester Junior Faculty Selected for K12 Research GrantsMay 16th, 2023
Sylvester’s Course on Cancer Clinical Trials Goes National, InternationalFebruary 15th, 2023
Sylvester Researchers Deliver Multiple Oral Presentations and More at ASTRO 2022December 20th, 2022
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