Jonathan P.S. Knisely MD FRCP(C) relinquished; FASTRO

Summary

• Dr. Jonathan Knisely is a radiation oncologist with special expertise in radiation management of benign and malignant central nervous system diseases. He attended Yale University, where he completed degree requirements in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and East Asian Language and Literature (Chinese). Following medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center and then completed a second residency in Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, training at Princess Margaret Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center.
  
  Dr. Knisely has held faculty positions in Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Northwell Health/Hofstra University and the Yale University School of Medicine. At all of these academic medical centers he led their stereotactic radiosurgery and image-guided radiation therapy programs. He introduced automated rigid 3D image registration to radiation oncology, which is a fundamental contribution to present-day image-guided radiation therapy. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications on subjects largely focused on brain cancer and stereotactic radiosurgery and has edited several textbooks and written numerous chapters on these subjects.
  
  Dr. Knisely has been recognized multiple times as one of America's Top Doctors and for his work in cancer treatment. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous leading medical journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the Journal of Neuro-Oncology, the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics and Neurosurgery. He is now on the faculty of the University of Amsterdam's Department of Radiation Oncology.