Yi Rong, Ph.D.

Dr. Yi Rong, is Senior Associate Consultant in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic Arizona. She has been an experienced faculty physicist and researcher in various areas of medical physics and radiotherapy. She has worked on a wide range of cancer radiotherapy related clinical and research projects and applications, with extensive experience in teaching and mentoring graduate students in the field of medical physics and biomedical engineering. She has authored more than 70 papers and 3 book chapters. Her clinical expertise includes external beam photon and electron, brachytherapy, SBRT/SRS, motion management, IGRT, Tomotherapy, etc. Her clinical research focus includes machine learning for auto-segmentation and image quality improvement, data informatics, radiomics for treatment and outcome improvement, etc. Dr. Rong has been serving as Associate Editors for multiple prestigious journals in the field. She devoted her time in establishing teaching and research collaborations for medical physicists globally. In 2020, she was awarded the Fellow of American Association of Physicists in Medicine, which serves as a national recognition of her achievement in research, teaching, and leadership in the profession.