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David J. Gladstone, ScD

Title(s)
Adjunct Professor of Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

Department(s)
Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences

Education
Harvard Medical School, Post Doctoral Fellowship 1991
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sc.D. 1989
University of Denver, B.S.Ch. 1983

Programs
Dartmouth Cancer Center

Contact Information

Dartmouth Medical School
HB 7999
Hanover NH 03755

Office: 1 Medical Center Drive
Phone: 603-640-6442
Fax: 603-650-6616
Email: david.j.gladstone@dartmouth.edu


Professional Interests

Highly conformal radiation therapy to spare normal tissues from damage secondary to treatment. Image guided radiation therapy, biological gating of therapeutic X-ray beams, image guided brachytherapy. Cherenkov emission during radiotherapy. Ultra-high dose rate radiation therapy to elicit the FLASH normal tissue sparing effect.

Grant Information

Drug-eluding Brachytherapy Implants Co-I 5% NIH/NCI R42CA224646-02

Norris Cotton Cancer Center Core Co-Director 2% NIH/NCI $3,290,263 Grant Radiation Shared Resource
5P30 CA 23108-40

Optical Cherenkov calibration for human radiation therapy Co-PI 8% NIH $423,145 R01EB023909

Electron FLASH Radiotherapy NIH U01 CA260446-01A1 Co-PI 10% $550,000/yr

Courses Taught

ENG-56, ENG-157, ENG-167, ENG-168, ENG-192


Selected Publications

 

Characterization and Mitigation of Boundary Sampling Artifacts in Electron Phase Space Generation for Clinical FLASH-RT Deployment.
Carballeira R, Zhang R, Willy KJ, Cash H, Gladstone DJ
ArXiv. 2026 Sep 24; Epub 2026 Sep 24.
PMID: 42818460

Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy vs Moderately Hypofractionated IMRT for Localized Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Ellis RJ, Pugh SL, Yu JB, Feng FY, Konski AA, Grubb RL 3rd, Wallace RE, Gladstone DJ, Menard C, Miccio JA, Frazier AJ, Pennington JD, Michalski JM, Spratt DE, Martinez A, Morgan SC, Mihai A, Solanki AA, Amjad A, Straza MW, Delouya G, Schroeder TM, Marshall DT, Kapadia N, Patel AN, Cescon TP, El-Gayed A, Yoon HA, Paulus R, Sandler HM, NRG-GU005 Collaborative Authors
JAMA. 2026 Sep 22;336(12):1029-1038. doi: 10.1001/jama.2026.12627.
PMID: 42593775

Systematic tissue oxygen variation shows the modulation of murine skin radiation toxicity at ultra-high dose rates.
Hunter DI, Sunnerberg JP, Tavakkoli AD, Sloop AM, Petusseau B, Gui J, Cao X, Zhang R, Swartz HM, Jarvis LA, Jack Hoopes P, Gladstone DJ, Pogue BW
Phys Med Biol. 2026 May 12;71(9) doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ae64a5. Epub 2026 May 12.
PMID: 42030995

Wide area surface dosimetry with conformal scintillator array for external beam radiotherapy.
Vasyltsiv R, Matous AL, Mulenga N, Clark MA, Pogue BW, Gladstone DJ, Jarvis LA, Bruza P
Med Phys. 2026 Jan;53(1):e70283. doi: 10.1002/mp.70283.
PMID: 41549624

Correction: Innovative approaches in precision radiation oncology: advanced imaging technologies and challenges which shape the future of radiation therapy.
Yan Y, Alexander DA, Bednarz BP, Bronk LF, Chen H, Gladstone DJ, Han B, Iannuzzi CM, Li Y, Nguyen N, Mulenga N, Viscariello NN, Wang Y, Weygand J, Zlateva Y, Guan F
Front Med (Lausanne). 2025;12:1738811. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1738811. Epub 2025 Nov 25.
PMID: 41377801

Intermediate tissue oxygen level is required to observe murine FLASH skin sparing.
Hunter DI, Sunnerberg JP, Tavakkoli AD, Sloop AM, Allen B, Gui J, Cao X, Zhang R, Swartz HM, Gladstone DJ, Jarvis LA, Hoopes PJ, Pogue BW
bioRxiv. 2025 Oct 7; pii: 2025.10.06.680759. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.06.680759. Epub 2025 Oct 7.
PMID: 41279465

Innovative approaches in precision radiation oncology: advanced imaging technologies and challenges which shape the future of radiation therapy.
Yan Y, Alexander DA, Bednarz BP, Bronk LF, Chen H, Gladstone DJ, Han B, Iannuzzi CM, Li Y, Nguyen N, Mulenga N, Viscariello NN, Wang Y, Weygand J, Zlateva Y, Guan F
Front Med (Lausanne). 2025;12:1686593. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1686593. Epub 2025 Oct 30.
PMID: 41244760

Timescale of FLASH Sparing Effect Determined by Varying Temporal Split of Dose Delivery in Mice.
Sunnerberg JP, Hunter DI, Sloop AM, Tavakkoli AD, Bruza P, Zhang R, Gui J, Jarvis LA, Swartz HM, Gladstone DJ, Hoopes PJ, Pogue BW
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2026 Mar 1;124(3):831-841. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.09.052. Epub 2025 Oct 2.
PMID: 41046060

Emulating Clinical Workflow of Scintillator Array Dosimetry for FLASH Pencil-Beam Scanning Proton Therapy.
Vasyltsiv R, Harms J, Clark M, Gladstone DJ, Pogue BW, Zhang R, Bruza P
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2025 Dec 1;123(5):1428-1436. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.05.084. Epub 2025 Sep 30.
PMID: 41026068

Anesthesia is a potent determinant of ultra-high dose rate sparing in the murine total abdominal irradiation model.
Tavakkoli AD, Daley WW, Hunter DI, Allen BA, Carpenter GC, Gladstone DJ, Pogue BW, Hoopes PJ
Front Oncol. 2025;15:1666489. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1666489. Epub 2025 Sep 1.
PMID: 40958855

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