Steve Braunstein

Education

• MD, PhD, New York University School of Medicine, 2009

Postgraduate Education

• Preliminary Medicine Year, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, 2010
• Residency, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, 2014

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, 2019-present
• Vice Chair, University of California San Francisco, 2018-present
• Residency Program Director, University of California San Francisco Radiation Oncology Program, 2018-present
• Associate Residency Program Director, Director, University of California San Francisco Radiation Oncology Program, 2014-2018

Hospital/Institution Appointments

• Medical Director Mission Bay Campus, University of California San Francisco, 2019-present
• Co-director Radiosurgery Program, University of California San Francisco, 2019-present

Steve Braunstein, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology at the University of California San Francisco, serving as Radiation Oncology Residency Program and Fellowship Director. He works as an attending in radiation oncology at the University of California San Francisco with a focus on treating patients with pediatric, central nervous system, and soft tissue malignancies. He is active within COG, NRG and IRRF, as a co-investigator on several cooperative group trials.

Dr. Braunstein has a keen interest in Medical Education at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, as well as interdisciplinary team education programming. He has served as both Residency Program Director and previously as Associate Program Director for several years with a focus on cultivating a modern and holistic education curriculum for training the next generations of astute and compassionate leaders in the radiation oncology community. He is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators promoting best practices in education scholarship through evidence-based methodology. He has served on the UCSF Academic Senate Committee on Education Policy. He is active within the Radiation Oncology Education Collaborative Study Group to promote collaborative educational research to improve trainee recruitment, mentorship, and scholarly education-focused activity within radiation oncology. He has also served on the ASTRO Annual Meeting Education Committee, CME editor for IJROBP and question-writer for the ACR TXIT exam.