Stephanie E. Combs MD

Stephanie E. Combs is Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany, since 2014. Before, she was Vice-Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in Heidelberg, Germany.

She also holds the position of Director of the Institute of Innovative Radiotherapy (iRT), Department of Radiation Sciences (DRS), at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU). Prof. Combs is Chair of the Oncological Center (Onkologisches Zentrum) at TUM, and Vice Chair of the Tumor Center Munich (Tumozentrum München, TZM).

Prof. Combs completed Medical School at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, Germany, Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Virginia, and University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), San Antonio, Texas. She earned her Doctorate Degree with preclinical work in the field of Neuroanatomy, where she studied the development of the sympathoadrenal system and the impact of growth factors on the development and formation of the neuronal and non-neuronal networks.

She was trained as a radiation oncologist in Heidelberg, where she specialized in high-precision radiotherapy such as radiosurgery, stereotactic treatments, Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) as well as particle therapy. Her special interest is treatment individualization and optimization of patients with brain tumors and tumors of the skull base, gastrointestinal malignancies as well as childhood cancer. She has set up and conducted over 20 clinical trials, and published over 175 original peer-reviewed articles. Prof. Combs is a member of the German and European Radiation Oncology Societies (DEGRO and ESTRO), the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). She is serving as a board member of the Neurooncological Working Group of the German Cancer Society (DKG). She received several scientific awards for her work such as the Hermann Holthusen Prize of the German Radiation Oncology Society.