The Radiation Team at CTCA in Tulsa

Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Tulsa
We are located in a brand new cancer center on 81st Street just west of highway 169. We are a fully equipped hospital dedicated soley to providing cancer care. Our hospital has guest rooms, an in-patient ward, an ICU, operating rooms, and clinics for multiple specialties. The radiation department has Hi-Art Tomotherapy, a Varian high energy linear accelerator with 3D conformal planning and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), a CT simulator, and a Nucletron microselectron HDR unit and brachytherapy procedure room.

Douglas Kelly, MD (Tulsa)
Dr. Kelly received his medical degree at McGill University in Montreal in 1991, and then did a residency in radiation oncology and a fellowship in brachytherapy at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Center. He has been with CTCA-Tulsa since 1996. He is experienced in multiple brachytherapy techniques, and is also active in designing brachytherapy protocols and research. He is the author and designer of brachytherapy.com.

James Flynn, MD, FACR (Tulsa)
Dr. Flynn has been with CTCA at Tulsa since 1992. Prior to this he was an assistant professor at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Flynn was the first oncologist to bring HDR brachytherapy, prostate permanent seed implants, and then prostate HDR brachytherapy to Oklahoma. Dr. Flynn's education included an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and a medical degree from the St. Louis University School of Medicine. He completed an internship at St. Louis University Group Hospital, and residencies at New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, all in New York.

The Other CTCA Team Members
Our radiation treatments are so highly technical in nature, that we have a full time team of three PhD physicists (Amarjit Sen, Matt West, Allan Movahed) and two dosimetrists (Greg Ingram, Denise Lollar) whose job it is to help design and impliment the radiation and brachytherapy treatment plans. It is unusual to have so much technical support in a clinic with just two radiation oncologists. Our department also has clinic nurses, a brachytherapy nurse, a physician assistant (Vera Boone), a large team of radiation therapists, secretaries, receptionists, and schedulers and a transporter (Don Cougar Tardiff).

It is truly the entire team that brings exceptional quality to our brachytherapy and radiation treatments, not just the equipment. Our deparment, our hospital, and the whole CTCA network share a philosophy of patient empowerment, holistic patient approach, and high technology treatments that motivates us to strive for excellence.

Other CTCA Hospitals
Midwestern Regional Medical Center (MRMC) in Zion, Illinois was the original hospital in the Cancer Treatment Centers of America family. MRMC is a general hospital whose dominating specialty is cancer care. It is similiarly equipped like Tulsa, with tomotherapy, IMRT, and HDR brachytherapy. The radiation oncologists are Dr. Bernard Eden and Dr. Chang.

The Philadelphia CTCA cancer center opened in late 2005. The radiation oncology department has tomotherapy, IMRT, and brachytherapy. It serves the Northeastern states.

Our final center is the Seattle clinic, which does not have radiation therapy, but does have other sevices such as medical oncology and naturopathy.