Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Byong Yong YI

Byong Yong YI
Editor-in-Chief
Director and Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

Biography

Dr. Byong Yong Yi joined the Department of Raidaiton Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine as an associate Professor and clinical director of the Physics Division in 2005, after 16-years of service as a Chief Medical Physicist and Professor of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan School of Medicine in Seoul Korea. Dr. Yi earned his doctoral degree in physics at Yonsei University in Seoul Korea. He obtained clinical training as a medical physicist at Hanyang University, 1987-1989. He has been certified by the medical physics boards, the Korean Board of Medical Physics in 1993 and the American Board of Radiology in 2008. He found the Medical Physics Residency Program at University of Maryland Medical System, which has been accreditted by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Program (CAMPEP) and had served as a director, 2012-2016. 

Research Interest

Byong′s Research Interest includes Radiation Oncology, Oncology Physics, Tumor Tracking