
Daniel Smith Higginson MD
Central Nervous System Cancer, Head & Neck
Physician
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1275 York AvenueNew York, NY 10065
Overview of Dr. Higginson
Dr. Daniel Higginson is a radiation oncologist in New York, NY and is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has been in practice 19 years. He is one of 133 doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who specialize in Radiation Oncology. He has more than 70 publications and over 500 citings.
Education & Training
University of North Carolina HospitalsResidency, Radiation Oncology, 2008 - 2012
MedStar Health Georgetown University/Georgetown HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2007 - 2008
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 2007
Certifications & Licensure
FL State Medical License 2023 - Present
NJ State Medical License 2023 - 2027
NY State Medical License 2012 - 2027
NC State Medical License 2008 - 2026
VA State Medical License 2007 - 2008
American Board of Radiology Radiation Oncology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification MyMSK, Memorial Sloan Kettering, 2017
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Allscripts, 2017
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Early and late CTCAE and patient-reported outcomes following lung cancer radiotherapy: A sex-stratified descriptive analysis from the REQUITE cohort.Miguel E Aguado-Barrera, Patricia Calvo-Crespo, Begoña Taboada-Valladares, Antonio Gomez-Caamaño, Angel Carracedo
Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology. 2026-11-01 - Preoperative Arterial Embolization of Spine Metastases Not Associated With Improved Local Control or Overall Survival in Patients Receiving Surgery Followed by Stereot...Alexandra Ebel, Justiss Kallos, Gary Kocharian, Shriyans Boddu, Marcus Valcarce-Aspegren
Neurosurgery. 2026-09-01 - Local control and outcomes associated with proton spine hypofractionated radiation therapy.Christopher B Jackson, Daniel S Higginson, Haibo Lin, Dennis Mah, Justin Haseltine
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2026-08-19
Press Mentions
MSK Research Highlights, October 15, 2024October 16th, 2024
Grant Support
- Antigen-specific radiosensitizationSLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH2025–2030
- PSMA ligand radiosensitizers to improve the therapeutic index of external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancerSLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH2024–2026
- Recombinase polymerase amplification to enable same-cell, DNA/RNA multi-omic single cell sequencingSLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH2024–2025
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