Catheryn Yashar, MD, FASTRO
Health Policy Council Chair
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
EDUCATION
- MD, Northwestern University (AOA), Chicago, 1991
- BA, Biology (Summa Cum Laude), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1986
POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION
- Resident, Radiation Oncology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1998 - 2001
- Fellowship, Gynecologic Oncology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1996 - 1998
- Resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1991 - 1995
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Diego, 2015 - present
- Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Diego, 2009 - 2015
- Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Diego, 2006 - 2009
- Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 2003 - 2006
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
- University of California San Diego CA, 1996 - present
SERVICE TO ASTRO
- Chair, Health Policy Committee, 2019 - 2021
- CPT alternate, 2018 - present
- Member, CDVC, 2015 - present
- Member, CUAC Committee, 2017 - present
- Senior Editor, Gynecology
- International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 2009 - 2010
- Advances
- Practical Radiation Oncology, 2020 - present
- Search Committee
- Advances
- Practical Radiation Oncology
- International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 2020
- Member, Emerging Technology Committee, 2012 - 2015
SERVICE TO OTHER ONCOLOGY OR RADIOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS
- NCCN, Cervical Uterine Panel
- Vice Chair, Cervical Uterine Panel, 2018 - present
- Panel member, 2013 - present
- American Board of Radiology
- Trustee, 2020 - present
- Oral Boards Chair, Gynecology, 2019 - 2020
- Oral and written boards committee member, 2004 - 2019
- American Radium Society
- Appropriateness Criteria, Gynecology, 2017 - present
- American Brachytherapy Society
- Chairwoman of the Board, 2018 - 2019
- President, 2017 - 2018
- Vice President, 2016 - 2017
- Secretary, 2014 - 2016
- American College of Radiology
- Appropriateness Criteria, Gynecology, 2009 - 2017
- Panel on Radiation Oncology/Gynecology, 2011 - 2017
