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Dennis C. Shrieve, MD, PhD, FACR

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Languages Spoken: English, French, Spanish

Dennis C. Shrieve, MD, PhD, is the Huntsman Cancer Institute Chair in Cancer Research and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and co-director of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program at the University.

Shrieve is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Radiation Oncology and has primary clinical research interests in adult and pediatric neuro-oncology, pediatric radiation oncology, and stereotactic radiotherapy. His basic research interests include intrinsic radiosensitivity of human tumors, the mechanisms of intrinsic cellular resistance to radiation and chemotherapy, and combined chemotherapy/radiotherapy.

Shrieve serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Radiology and is past-President of the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society. He has been listed in Best Doctors in America for over 10 years.

Shrieve received his MD from the University of Miami and his PhD in radiation biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. He served on the faculties of the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard Medical School before coming to the University of Utah.

Shrieve is the author or co-author of over 150 articles or book chapters in the medical and scientific literature. He co-editied the book "Human Radiation Injury" in 2010.

Clinical areas of special expertise include pediatric brain tumors, adult brain tumors, stereotactic radiosurgery and treatment of brain metastases.

Clinical Locations

Huntsman Cancer Hospital
Radiation Oncology

801-581-2396

1950 Circle of Hope
Salt Lake City, UT  84112
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Specialties

  • Brain Tumors
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers
  • Genitourinary Cancers
  • Lung Cancer
  • Pediatric Radiation Therapy
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Radiation Oncology - Professor
Board Certification American Board of Radiology (Radiation Oncology)
Cancer Center Programs Experimental Therapeutics

Patient Rating

The Patient Rating score is an average of all responses to care provider related questions on our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey.

Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.

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Likelihood of recommending care provider

4.8/ 5

Care provider's explanation of condition/problem

4.8/ 5

Care provider's effort to include me in decisions

4.9/ 5

Wait time at clinic

4.6/ 5

Care provider's concern for questions & worries

4.9/ 5

Patient Comments

Patient comments are gathered from our Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survery and displayed in their entirety. Patients are de-identified for confidentiality and patient privacy.

UofU Patient June 29, 2018

Dr shreeve is a very good Dr. kind and very informative in laymen s terms.

UofU Patient January 22, 2017

very good experience.

UofU Patient December 09, 2016

the care here is incredible. I feel so fortunate to have been referred to here a year ago.

UofU Patient July 27, 2016

Needed to speak louder for hearing impaired wife.

UofU Patient July 16, 2016

Everyone was wonderful. The skill that was needed for my procedure could only come from such top-notch Dr.s and support staff. I feel very fortunate to have been able to go to Salt Lake for my care.

UofU Patient April 30, 2016

Both Dr. Boothe and Dr. Shrieve spent a lot of time with me and were very thorough, friendly and informative.

UofU Patient April 16, 2016

Dr. Shrieve and Dr. Booth were excellent!

UofU Patient January 28, 2016

Would have been better to know I was going to see a new Dr.

UofU Patient October 02, 2015

Dr Shrieve is excellent

UofU Patient August 12, 2015

Thank you for spending HOURS with us!!!!!

UofU Patient May 20, 2015

my experiences at Huntsman could not be better. the bar is set high and met.

UofU Patient April 03, 2015

good

UofU Patient March 21, 2015

Absolutely Perfect

UofU Patient February 07, 2015

no bad, all good except I have cancer.no better place to be seen for it

UofU Patient September 27, 2014

I now live in New Mexico, but choose to return to Utah because I had such good care there. I can't speak highly enough of Dr. Shrieve!

UofU Patient August 27, 2014

Dr. Shrieve and his assistant were very accommodating. I liked that they answered all of my concerns.

UofU Patient June 15, 2014

He was very thorough and informative. I knew what to expect.

UofU Patient June 08, 2014

I have never had a doctor spend all the time I needed to share my concerns. Both Dr. Jensen, and Dr. Shrieve spent a very long time with me and my family. I so appreciated this.

UofU Patient March 21, 2014

Dr. Jensen was very personable as well as proessional. Dr. Sherrif (sp?) was very knowledgable and explained the processes very clearly so even someone like myself without his expertise could get an idea of what the treatment proposed entailed.

UofU Patient February 11, 2014

We like Dr Randy Jensen a lot, but we did not see him very much that day, except for the first hour.

UofU Patient January 31, 2014

We were extremely impressed with Dr Shrieve. He was very patient and thorough when answering all of our questions. He spent quite a bit of time with us and that meant a lot.

UofU Patient January 29, 2014

I was there for a consultation of spine MRI an they had no clue they were looking at my MRI of brain which was last week. I had to tell them why I was there. then he quickly looked at MRI of spine for 2 min which did not make me feel comfortable an said he would coordinate with my oncologist.

UofU Patient September 09, 2013

This was a routine follow-up, so I knew what to expect.

UofU Patient June 17, 2013

We really appreciated the attention and clear explanations given. We came away feeling very confident in the physician and other staff and very positive about treatment plans.

UofU Patient March 25, 2013

good

UofU Patient January 21, 2013

We felt well cared for and in competant hands.

UofU Patient December 28, 2012

Dr. Schrieve seemed to have a bit of a lack of respect for what Dr. Cohen had been planning and implementing

UofU Patient December 06, 2012

All is very good

UofU Patient March 14, 2012

Dr. Schreive was able to answer the questions i asked. I wouldn't be where I am today without him!

UofU Patient November 08, 2011

Very impressed with the compassion showed by my care provider Dr. Dennis Shrieve .

UofU Patient August 11, 2011

Good overall, especially considering how busy the department has been of late. No complaints.

Dennis C. Shrieve, MD, PhD, is the Huntsman Cancer Institute Chair in Cancer Research and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and co-director of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program at the University.

Shrieve is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Radiation Oncology and has primary clinical research interests in adult and pediatric neuro-oncology, pediatric radiation oncology, and stereotactic radiotherapy. His basic research interests include intrinsic radiosensitivity of human tumors, the mechanisms of intrinsic cellular resistance to radiation and chemotherapy, and combined chemotherapy/radiotherapy.

Shrieve serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Radiology and is past-President of the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society. He has been listed in Best Doctors in America for over 10 years.

Shrieve received his MD from the University of Miami and his PhD in radiation biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. He served on the faculties of the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard Medical School before coming to the University of Utah.

Shrieve is the author or co-author of over 150 articles or book chapters in the medical and scientific literature. He co-editied the book "Human Radiation Injury" in 2010.

Clinical areas of special expertise include pediatric brain tumors, adult brain tumors, stereotactic radiosurgery and treatment of brain metastases.

Academic Locations

Huntsman Cancer Hospital

801-581-2396

1950 Circle of Hope
Radiation Oncology, 1570
Salt Lake City, UT  84112

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Radiation Oncology - Professor
Board Certification American Board of Radiology (Radiation Oncology)
Cancer Center Programs Experimental Therapeutics

Research Interests

  • Adult and pediatric neuro-oncology
  • Pediatric Radiation Oncology
  • Conformal radiotherapy and radiosurgery for intracranial tumors of children and adults
  • Radiotherapy using altered fractionation in the treatment of pediatric and adult tumors
  • Combined chemoradiotherapy
  • Genitourinary malignancies
  • Intrinsic radiosensitivity of human tumors
  • Mechanisms of intrinsic cellular resistance to radiation and chemotherapy
  • Role of microenvironmental factors on cellular sensitivity to radiation and to chemotherapeutic agents
  • Mechanisms of normal tissue injury and repair following radiotherapy

Education History

Chief Resident University of California - San Francisco
Radiation Oncology
Chief Resident
Residency University of California - San Francisco
Radiation Oncology
Resident
Internship University of California - San Francisco
Medicine
Intern
Professional Medical University of Miami School of Medicine
Medicine
M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Mount Vernon Hospital
Research
Postdoctoral Fellow
Doctoral Training University of California - Berkeley
Radiation Biophysics
Ph.D.
Undergraduate University of California - Berkeley
Zoology
A.B.

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. Wallner PE, McGeagh AM, Gerdeman AM, Wilson LD, Shrieve DC, Alektiar KM, Hahn SM, Kachnic LA, Jackson VP (2018). Snapshot of a Specialty: Results of the ABR 2016 Radiation Oncology Clinical Practice Analysis. J Am Coll Radiol, 16(4 Pt A), 513-517.
  2. Tward JD, Poppe MM, Hitchcock YJ, ONeil B, Albertson DJ, Shrieve DC (2018). Demographics, stage distribution, and relative roles of surgery and radiotherapy on survival of persons with primary prostate sarcomas. Cancer Med, 7(12), 6030-6039.
  3. Burt LM, Shrieve DC, Tward JD (2018). Factors influencing prostate cancer patterns of care: An analysis of treatment variation using the SEER database. Adv Radiat Oncol, 3(2), 170-180.
  4. Ma L, Sahgal A, Nie K, Hwang A, Karotki A, Wang B, Shrieve DC, Sneed PK, McDermott M, Larson DA (2012). Reliability of contour-based volume calculation for radiosurgery. J Neurosurg, 117 Suppl, 203-10.
  5. Shrieve DC, Colman H (2012). Medulloblastoma: molecular classifications and prognostic associations. Oncology (Williston Park), 26(11), 1097, 1102.
  6. Cooke EW, Shrieve DC, Tward JD (2011). Clinical versus pathologic staging for prostate adenocarcinoma: how do they correlate? Am J Clin Oncol, 35(4), 364-8.
  7. Montejo ME, Shrieve DC, Bentz BG, Hunt JP, Buchman LO, Agarwal N, Hitchcock YJ (2011). IMRT with simultaneous integrated boost and concurrent chemotherapy for locoregionally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 81(5), e845-52.
  8. Ma L, Petti P, Wang B, Descovich M, Chuang C, Barani IJ, Kunwar S, Shrieve DC, Sahgal A, Larson DA (2011). Apparatus dependence of normal brain tissue dose in stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases. J Neurosurg, 114(6), 1580-4.
  9. Brem SS, Bierman PJ, Brem H, Butowski N, Chamberlain MC, Chiocca EA, DeAngelis LM, Fenstermaker RA, Friedman A, Gilbert MR, Hesser D, Junck L, Linette GP, Loeffler JS, Maor MH, Michael M, Moots PL, Morrison T, Mrugala M, Nabors LB, Newton HB, Portnow J, Raizer JJ, Recht L, Shrieve DC, Sills AK Jr, Vrionis FD, Wen PY, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (2011). Central nervous system cancers. J Natl Compr Canc Netw, 9(4), 352-400.
  10. Wang B, Rassiah-Szegedi P, Zhao H, Huang YJ, Sarkar V, Szegedi M, Kokeny KE, Anker CJ, Shrieve DC, Salter BJ (2011). Initial experience and clinical comparison of two image guidance methods for SBRT treatment: 4DCT versus respiratory-triggered imaging. J Appl Clin Med Phys, 12(3), 3429.
  11. Rassiah-Szegedi P, Wang B, Szegedi M, Tward J, Zhao H, Huang YJ, Sarkar V, Shrieve D, Salter B (2011). Individualized margins for prostate patients using a wireless localization and tracking system. J Appl Clin Med Phys, 12(3), 3516.
  12. Ma L, Sahgal A, Cozzi L, Chang E, Shiu A, Letourneau D, Yin FF, Fogliata A, Kaissl W, Hyde D, Laperriere NJ, Shrieve DC, Larson DA (2010). Apparatus-dependent dosimetric differences in spine stereotactic body radiotherapy. Technol Cancer Res Treat, 9(6), 563-74.
  13. Chen J, Pappas L, Moeller JH, Rankin J, Sharma PK, Bentz BG, Fang LC, Hayes JK, Shrieve DC, Hitchcock YJ (2006). Treatment of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma with external beam radiation combined with interstitial brachytherapy. Head Neck, 29(4), 362-9.

Book

  1. Shrieve DC, Loeffler JS (October 2010). Human Radiation injury. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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