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RADIATION ONCOLOGIST JOINS UPMC NORTHWEST STAFF
Appointment of R. Nicholas Gramatovici, MD, coincides with cancer center opening

April 21, 2005 — Board certified radiation oncologist R. Nicholas Gramatovici, MD, is the newest member of the UPMC Northwest medical staff. Dr. Gramatovici practices with Cancer Care Specialists, which also includes radiation oncologists Joanne Dragun, MD, and Duk Sung, MD, and oncologists/hematologists Alex Calvo, MD, and Nicholas Cook, MD.

Dr. Gramatovici has practiced radiation oncology for 18 years including eight years in Pennsylvania: he was director of radiation oncology the past two years at Warren General Hospital in Warren, and for six years he was medical director of Lebanon Valley Cancer Center in Lebanon. He also was a radiation oncologist for several years at hospitals in Michigan, Massachusetts, and Canada.

Dr. Gramatovici spent the early years of his medical career in his native Romania, where he practiced family medicine, internal medicine, and cardiology. He has a degree in medicine from the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, where he also completed residencies in internal medicine and cardiology. He completed both residency and fellowship study in radiation oncology at Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation facilities in Ontario and Manitoba, Canada.

The addition of Dr. Gramatovici to the UPMC Northwest staff coincides with the opening of the radiation oncology unit (cancer center) at the new hospital. His special interest is intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), a powerful new cancer treatment option that now is available at UPMC Northwest. The new Siemens ONCOR Linear Accelerator makes UPMC Northwest the region’s first hospital to provide IMRT, which allows radiation therapists to deliver more precise, more powerful doses of radiation than ever against prostate, breast, lung, head and neck, and other cancers.