JohnCFlickingerMD

Radiation Oncology • Pittsburgh, PA

Professor of Radiation Oncology, University Pittsburgh

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Office
200 Lothrop Street
Department Of Radiation Oncology
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone+1 412-647-3600

Education & Training

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Radiation Oncology, 1981 - 1985
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of MedicineClass of 1981

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 1985 - 2024
OH State Medical License 1988 - 2001
American Board of Radiology Therapeutic Radiology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2008-2014
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2005-2013
Pittsburgh Magazine Castle Connolly, 2005-2011
Top MD Consumers Checkbook
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Clinical Trials

Patient Preference Survey for Radiation Oncologists Start of enrollment: 2006 Apr 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Hypofractionated SBRT For Prostate Cancer Start of enrollment: 2010 Oct 07
Completed
Not Applicable
Radiosurgery for Patients With Oligometastatic Disease at Initial Presentation Start of enrollment: 2013 Jun 07
Terminated
Phase 2
Radiosurgery for Patients Recurrent Oligometastatic Disease Start of enrollment: 2011 Jun 28
Completed
Not Applicable
SBRT for Close or Positive Margins After Resection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Start of enrollment: 2013 Feb 06
Completed
Not Applicable
Gemcitabine/Capecitabine Followed by SBRT in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Start of enrollment: 2011 Jul 25
Completed
Phase 2
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for Liver Mets Start of enrollment: 2012 Mar 23
Completed
Not Applicable
Fractionated Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Large Brain Metastases Start of enrollment: 2013 Jul 16
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Border Zone Stereotactic Radiosurgery With Bevacizumab in Patients With Glioblastoma Multiforme Start of enrollment: 2014 May 01
Completed
Phase 2
Short Course Chemo-Radiation Therapy for Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Start of enrollment: 2021 Dec 14
Active, not recruiting
Phase 1, Phase 2
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

91 citations
Long‐term survivors after gamma knife radiosurgery for brain metastases
Douglas Kondziolka, Juan J. Martin, John C. Flickinger, David M. Friedland, Adam Brufsky
Cancer. 2005-12-15
92 citations
Stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with nonsmall cell lung carcinoma metastatic to the brain
Young Soo Kim M.D., F.R.C.S. Douglas S. Kondziolka M.D., John C. Flickinger, L. Dade Lunsford
Cancer. 1997-12-01
749 citations
Stereotactic radiosurgery plus whole brain radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for patients with multiple brain metastases.
Douglas Kondziolka, Atul Patel, L. Dade Lunsford, Amin B. Kassam, John C. Flickinger
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 1999-09-01

Authored Content

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Benign Spine Tumors: Is Dose De-Escalation Appropriate? RelatedMay 2018