MVHS makes medical staff announcements

Brittany Simone has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System Cancer Center as a radiation oncologist.

Simone received her undergraduate education in biomedical engineering from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, and her medical school training at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York. Simone completed a research fellowship and a residency program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Simone is published in the areas of breast and prostate cancer as well as radiation-induced normal tissue toxicity. She has co-authored a chapter on the use of radiation therapy in the management of melanoma.

Simone’s clinical and research interests include breast, prostate and gynecologic malignancies as well as the use of dietary interventions to augment standard cytotoxic therapies in both the preclinical and clinical setting.

Stephanie Rice has also joined the MVHS Cancer Center as a radiation oncologist.

Rice received her undergraduate education in nuclear medicine technology from the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse and her medical school training at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. Rice completed residency training at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where she served as chief resident.

Rice is published in the areas of lung cancer, breast cancer, brain metastases, prostate cancer, vascular-related malignancies and proton therapy. Her clinical and research interests include head and neck cancer, sarcoma and gastrointestinal malignancies.

Photo: Simone/Rice