Stereotactic Radiosurgery Institute

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

YASHBIR MEHTA, M.D., FACRO

 

Date of Birth:  July 3, 1940

 

Citizenship:  U.S.A.

 

EDUCATION:

 

                        Pre-Medical:  Hindu College, Delhi (Delhi University) 1956 -1958

 

                        Graduated:  Medical College, AMRITSAR (Panjab University), India 1963 Degree, M.D.

 

INTERNSHIP:

 

                        (Rotating), Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia,

                        Vancouver-9, B.C., Canada  1965 – 1966

 

RESIDENCY:

 

                        Ottawa General Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, (University of Ottawa)

                        Internal Medicine  1966 – 1968

 

                        Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

                        Radiology  1968- 1970

 

                        Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

                        Radiotherapy  1970 – 1971

 

CERTIFICATION:

 

                        Licenciate of Medical Council of Canada  1967

 

                        American Board of Radiology  1972

 

STATE LICENSES:

 

                        Illinois

 

                        British Columbia, Canada

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

                        “CNS Involvement in Ewing’s Sarcoma”

                        CANCER, Vol. 33, No. 3,  March, 1974

 

                        Monograph, Calibration of Sieman’s Mevatron-20 Linear Accelerator

                        The Physical Aspects of Mevatron-20 Linear Accelerator – Scientific Exhibit applied for

                        the 1979 meeting of American Association of Physicists, Atlanta Meeting

 

                        Treating the Whole Pelvis in the Management of Prostatic Carcinoma:  Is There an

                        Advantage? 

                        Presented at RSNA,  1980,  and accepted for publication

 

PAPERS PRESENTED: 

 

                        Kaposi Sarcoma

                        ASTRO Meeting  1985

 

                        Management of Endometrial Carcinoma

                        MART Meeting, Chicago,  January, 1978

 

                        Role of Radiotherapy in the Management of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

                        Symposium,  Christ Hospital,  Oak Lawn, IL,  August,  1979

 

                        Breast Carcinoma and Radiation

                        Symposium,  McHenry Hospital,  March, 1978

 

                        Treatment of Cancer of the Oral Cavity, Oropharynx and Tongue

                        Symposium,  Alexian Brothers Hospital,  Elk Grove, IL,  July, 1979

 

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS:

 

                        Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital                     Director, Radiation Therapy Department

                        Chicago, Illinois                                                 1980 – 1991

 

                        Lutheran General Hospital                                 Attending Staff,  Radiotherapy

                        Park Ridge, Illinois                                             Department,   1973 – 1981

 

                        Fermi Lab                                                         2 months in 1979

 

                        Forkosh Memorial Hospital                                Consulting Staff,  previously

                        Chicago, Illinois

 

                        Bethany Hospital                                               Consulting Staff,  previously

                        Chicago, Illinois

 

                        Ravenswood Medical Center                             Consulting Staff,  previously

                        Chicago, Illinois

                        Saint Therese Medical Center                            Active Staff

                        Waukegan, Illinois

 

                        Victory Memorial Hospital                                 Active Staff

                        Waukegan, Illinois

 

                        Condell Medical Center                                     Active Staff

                        Libertyville, Illinois

 

                        Midwestern Regional Medical Center                 Active Staff

                        Zion, Illinois

 

COMMITTEES:

 

                        Chairman,  Executive Committee Saint Therese Medical Center   -   2002

                       

                        President, Medical Staff  Saint Therese Medical Center   -   2001

 

                        Secretary, Executive Committee Saint Therese Medical Center   -   2000    

 

Radioisotope Committee

 

                        Tumor Advisory Board

 

                        Research Committee

 

                        Credentials Committee

 

                        Tumor Committee at various hospitals

 

TEACHING POSITIONS:

 

                        Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital                         Assistant Professor

                        Chicago, Illinois                                                  Radiotherapy Department  1971 – 1973

 

                        Staff:  Mt. Sinai Hospital                                     Radiotherapy Department  1971 – 1972

 

                        Staff:  St. Joseph Hospital                                    Radiotherapy Department  1971 – 1973

 

                        Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine                   Assistant Clinical Professor

                        Department of Radiology                                     Radiology,  1979

                        Chicago, Illinois

 

MEDICAL SOCIETIES:

 

                        Illinois State Medical Society

 

                        American College of Radiology

 

American Medical Association

 

                        American Society of Therapeutic Radiology

 

                        Radiological Society of North America

 

                        American Radium Society

 

                        Illinois Radiological Society

 

                        Chicago Radiological Society

 

                        Metropolitan Association of Radiation Therapists

 

DIRECTOR/OWNER:

 

                        Waukegan Radiation Therapy Center                 1984  to  present

                        Waukegan, Illinois

                        Free standing radiation therapy center is equipped with  1) 6 Mev Linear Accelerator

                        2) Linear Accelerator with electrons   3) Simulator   4) Treatment Planning System

                        5) Brachytherapy

 

                        Radiation Therapy Center                                  1994  to  present

                        Libertyville, Illinois

                        Free standing radiation therapy center is equipped with Linear Accelerator with electrons

 

                        Under construction – Radiation Oncology Department in Gurnee with  1) Elekta Linear

                        Accelerator with capabilities of 25 Mev, 10 Mev, 6 Mev x-rays, multiple energy electrons

                        IMRT  2) Wide bore Marconi CT Simulator ACQSIM  3) e Pinnicle Treatment Planning

                        System  4) HDR brachytherapy

 

ASSOCIATES:

 

                        P. Kurup, M.D., FACRO           Trained at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital

                                                                        Worked for 2 years with neutrons at Fermi Lab

 

REFERENCES:

 

                        Frank R. Hendrickson, Director, Radiation Oncology

                        Rush Medical College,  Chicago, Illinois

                        Frank L. Hussey, Radiation Oncology
                        Lutheran General Hospital,  Park Ridge, Illinois

 

                        Richard Phillips, Director, Radiation Oncology

                        Lutheran General Hospital,  Park Ridge, Illinois

 

                        Stuart Krauss, Acting Director, Medical Oncology

                        Weiss Memorial Hospital,  Chicago, Illinois