Samuel Ryu MD

Samuel Ryu, MD, an internationally recognized specialist in radiosurgery to treat central nervous system tumors, has been named Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stony Brook Medicine, and Deputy Director for Clinical Affairs at the Stony Brook University Cancer Center, effective April 1, announced Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Senior Vice President of the Health Sciences, and Dean of the School of Medicine.

Dr. Ryu comes to Stony Brook from the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he rose in the ranks for the past 13 years and built an international reputation for excellence in radiosurgery of brain and spinal tumors. Since 2000, he served as Director of the Center for Radiosurgery in the Josephine Ford Cancer Institute at Henry Ford Hospital. As Professor of Radiation Oncology at Wayne State University, Dr. Ryu served as Leader of Radiation Neuro-Oncology since 1999, Leader of Spine Oncology since 2004, and Director of Radiation Oncology (2002-2005).