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David J. Gladstone, ScD

Title(s)
Adjunct Professor of Medicine

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

Department(s)
Medicine

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

 

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. 2025 Oct 2; pii: S0360-3016(25)06325-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.09.052. Epub 2025 Oct 2.
PMID: 41046060

Emulating Clinical Workflow of Scintillator Array Dosimetry for FLASH PBS Proton Therapy.
Vasyltsiv R, Harms J, Clark M, Gladstone DJ, Pogue BW, Zhang R, Bruza P
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2025 Jun 17; pii: S0360-3016(25)03904-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.05.084. Epub 2025 Jun 17.
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

Cherenkov Imaged Bio-Morphological Features Verify Patient Positioning With Deformable Tissue Translocation in Breast Radiation Therapy.
Chen Y, Decker SM, Bruza P, Gladstone DJ, Jarvis LA, Pogue BW, Samkoe KS, Zhang R
ArXiv. 2025 Aug 19; Epub 2025 Aug 19.
PMID: 40895086

Dynamic oxygen assessment techniques enable determination of anesthesia's impact on tissue.
Clark MA, Tavakkoli AD, Petusseau AF, Scorzo AV, Kheirollah A, Strawbridge RR, Davis SC, Bruza P, Pogue BW, Gladstone DJ, Hoopes PJ
Sci Rep. 2025 Aug 27;15(1):31611. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-14428-8. Epub 2025 Aug 27.
PMID: 40866451

Robust real-time segmentation of bio-morphological features in human cherenkov imaging during radiotherapy via deep learning.
Wang S, Chen Y, Jarvis LA, Tang Y, Gladstone DJ, Samkoe KS, Pogue BW, Bruza P, Zhang R
Med Phys. 2025 Aug;52(8):e18002. doi: 10.1002/mp.18002.
PMID: 40781822

Emerging Technologies in Radiation Therapy: Replacing Traditional Isotope-based Modalities.
Tavakkoli AD, Hunter DI, Allen B, Ubert CS, Gladstone DJ, Hoopes PJ
Health Phys. 2025 Sep 1;129(3):184-190. doi: 10.1097/HP.0000000000002027.
PMID: 40694636

Design and characterization of a novel scintillator array for UHDR PBS proton therapy surface dosimetry.
Vasyltsiv R, Harms J, Clark M, Gladstone DJ, Pogue BW, Zhang R, Bruza P
Med Phys. 2025 Jul;52(7):e17922. doi: 10.1002/mp.17922. Epub 2025 May 31.
PMID: 40450336

Cherenkov Imaged Bio-Morphological Features Verify Patient Positioning With Deformable Tissue Translocation in Breast Radiation Therapy.
Chen Y, Decker SM, Bruza P, Gladstone DJ, Jarvis LA, Pogue BW, Samkoe KS, Zhang R
Adv Radiat Oncol. 2025 Apr;10(4):101684. doi: 10.1016/j.adro.2024.101684. Epub 2024 Nov 19.
PMID: 40213314

Oxygen Consumption In Vivo by Ultra-High Dose Rate Electron Irradiation Depends Upon Baseline Tissue Oxygenation.
Sunnerberg JP, Tavakkoli AD, Petusseau AF, Daniel NJ, Sloop AM, Schreiber WA, Gui J, Zhang R, Swartz HM, Hoopes PJ, Gladstone DJ, Vinogradov SA, Pogue BW
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2025 Mar 15;121(4):1053-1062. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2024.10.018. Epub 2024 Oct 24.
PMID: 39461597

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