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Rad Onc @ArizonaOncology, @MDAndersonNews Alum, Chief Medical Officer @BaytaSystems

Tucson, AZ
Joined March 2019
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Thank you to @oncodaily for highlighting our work on RAG for Rad Onc! It was a big effort and appreciate the support! Key finding: we can use a well-built RAG model to boost the performance of smaller, cheaper, faster and even open source LLMs, comparable to frontier models
New RadOncRAG Publication, Advancing LLM Benchmark Performance in Radiation Oncology - Nikhil Thaker (@NGThaker_XRT) oncodaily.com/voices/nikhil-… #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedX
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🚨Just in time 👉Published for your quick weekend reading👉Charting the Ethical Course: Transformative Insights and Imperatives from the RAISE Conference on Responsible AI for Health Care | AI in Precision Oncology #AI #precisiononcology 🎯🧬 @OncoAlert @oncodaily @NGThaker_XRT 6 crucial areas for action and debate: ✅the primary beneficiaries of AIH, ✅authoritative medical systems, ✅ AI’s role within the patient–clinician relationship, ✅control over patient data, ✅consumer access to AI-driven medical advice, ✅ business models underpinning AI in medicine liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/a…
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Review on simulation based training for brachytherapy ⁦@MulherkarRia⁩ ⁦@KamravaMD⁩ ⁦@CShahMD⁩ ⁦@NGThaker_XRT⁩ ⁦@AmericanBrachy⁩ ⁦@ARRO_org⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Thank you, @NGThaker_XRT, for leading this team effort liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/a…
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🚨Artificial intelligence #AI is poised to shape medicine, oncology research & cancer care in the next decade. 📍Presenting the "Top AI in Oncology articles of 2023" 👉Remember, this list isn't exhaustive! 👉Feel free to Tag, add, tweet, X & share your must-reads with this list. Let's keep the knowledge flowing! #AI #artificialintelligence #PrecisionMedicine #PrecisionOncology #genomics #immunotherapy @OncoAlert @sama #chatgpt4 @TargetedOnc @OncLive @gotoPER @FDAOncology @OncBrothers @oncodaily @Annals_Oncology @NEJM @NEJM_AI @JAMAOnc @Nature @NatureMedicine @JCO_ASCO @TheUSONetwork @SarahCannonDocs 🧵
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⭐️Just in time for the holidays. Nice to get the print edition & preview issue of #AI in #PrecisionOncology - new journal. Forward thinking journal on #AI in Oncology & #PrecisionMedicine Delighted to be in the editorial board of this newly launched journal with @NGThaker_XRT @DrBlytheAdamson @DrEzraCohen @DrBonillaOnc @dougfloramd & many more amazing colleagues @OncoAlert
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Are you interested in the future of oncology? Please join me in this FREE inaugural virtual summit on 12/12/23 with a group of world-renowned oncologists and technologists to discuss AI's current and future role in Precision Oncology. webinars.liebertpub.com/e/th… @dougflora2
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Sticking a needle for a biopsy through lung tissue - right next to a pulsatile major artery- getting paid $155.00. Plumber gets more. Yeah this is inane. Meanwhile UAW looking for a 40 percent pay raise….
Should be worth more than 3 RVUs in my opinion…
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Unfortunate that the New York Times would describe radiation as “brutal”, reductive even for a headline As a medical oncologist who largely prescribes chemo history will judge us for indiscriminate toxicity But radiation oncologists are among the most precise doctors I know
The OncoAlert Network🚨 is pleased to present its collective expert view on the PROSPECT clinical trial for rectal cancer presented at #ASCO23 As a leading source of timely and reliable information in oncology, we are honored to contribute our consensus opinion on this study. In line with our commitment, and in agreement with the statements from our Partners at @astro and our colleagues at @ESTRO_RT Here is our official stance on the PROSPECT trial as drafted by our @OncoAlert RadiationTherapy☢️& GI Oncology faculty, inclusive of Patient Advocates. The OncoAlert Network🌐 acknowledges the influence of the PROSPECT trial on the management of #RectalCancer. Given the intricate nature of this disease, our esteemed panel of experts has diligently examined the existing data and is eager to present the following discerning observations:
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We had a great time hosting @UAZCancer’s @AnsinelliRadOnc as our @AmericanBrachy #300in10 fellow. A great doc and even better all around guy. His #brachytherapy skills are honed 🪡. @NGThaker_XRT you got a good one! We wish him 🍀 as he enters practice in Tucson this July!
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There will be some incredible applications of #GenerativeAI in healthcare. #ChatGPT is a big step in that direction, though more refinements for sure needed in the years ahead. It gets a few things right and wrong about breast radiation fractionation! @ASTRO_org @AmericanBrachy
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Congrats to @BrianDeMD and the @AZOncology team! Great academic and community practice collaboration - with some fantastic insights in #VBC for #radonc and #oncology communities. Lots more to be done, but couldn't have done it without the tremendous work of @BrianDeMD and team!
Pleased to share our latest work in @IJROBP examining costs of radiotherapy under the Oncology Care Model. This was a fantastic collaboration with @NGThaker_XRT and the team at @AZOncology. redjournal.org/article/S0360…
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