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Hak Choy, MD

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Professor Emeritus, Radiation Oncology · UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Region🇺🇸 Dallas, TX · South Central · United StatesSpecialtyRadiation OncologyFocusLung Cancer (NSCLC/SCLC)+1
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Hak Choy is Professor Emeritus, Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 245 publications with 16,853 citations (h-index 61); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 6 registered studies with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Radiation Oncology profiles in the FindMyKOL directory.

Data verified 9 Nov 2026

Overview

Updated 14 Nov 2026

Hak Choy, MD, is Professor Emeritus, Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The public record shows 245 publications with 16,853 citations (h-index 61), centered on Lung Cancer (NSCLC/SCLC), Head & Neck Cancer. It also documents an investigator role on 6 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 4 companies, 2 NIH-funded awards (2003–2016).

  • Top research focus: Lung Cancer (NSCLC/SCLC)
  • 6 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Open Payments reporting from 4 companies

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Indications focus

from trials led + research topics
Lung Cancer (NSCLC/SCLC)5 trialsHead & Neck Cancer1 trialBladder / Urothelial CancerBreast CancerColorectal CancerGastroesophageal CancerNeuro-Oncology / GliomaPancreatic CancerProstate CancerKidney Cancer / RCCTuberculosis

Research focus

OpenAlex concept fingerprint
Lung Cancer (NSCLC/SCLC)Head & Neck Cancer

Drugs & molecules

across trials, industry payments and publications
Lynparzageneric · OlaparibClinical trials—Industry payments8Publications—

Works with

trial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCClinical trials—Industry payments12Novocure Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments11Mevion_Medical_Systems_IncClinical trials—Industry payments6Radiation Therapy Oncology GroupClinical trials2Industry payments—Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, IncClinical trials2Industry payments—University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterClinical trials2Industry payments—Elekta, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments1

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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245publications

Publications indexed by OpenAlex. Counts exclude supporting files.

16,853citations

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61h-index

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Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
6clinical trials

Investigator role on registered studies.

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4companies · 2021–2025

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2NIH grants · 2003–2016

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Clinical trials

Updated 9 Nov 2026

Listed as an investigator on 6 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:

Industry payments

Updated 9 Nov 2026

4 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

NIH funding

Updated 9 Nov 2026

2 NIH research awards on record, funded 2003–2016 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:

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Publications

Network

Updated 9 Nov 2026

The people this person publishes with most, by number of co-authored papers. Names link to their own profile when we have one.

Robert D Timmerman46Puneeth Iyengar30Walter John Curran23Rebecca Paulus18Ritsuko U Komaki16Wallace Akerley15Debabrata Saha15Kenneth D. Westover15Elizabeth Gore14Yu Shyr14Laurie E. Gaspar13Jeffrey D. Bradley12Benjamin Movsas12Raquibul Hannan12Jeffrey D. Bradley12David R. Gandara12David E. Gerber12David H. Johnson12Randall S. Hughes11Everett E. Vokes11Ramaswamy Govindan11Maria Werner‐Wasik11Corey Jay Langer11Alana L. Christie10Gregory M.M. Videtic10Aaron Michael Laine9George P. Amorino9Chul Woo Ahn9James Brugarolas9Robert Malcolm MacRae9Hongryull Pyo9Steve B Jiang8Chen Hu8Jeff M. Michalski8Kim Js8Joan H. Schiller8Steven E. Schild8Jeffrey A. Bogart8Lawrence Chinsoo Cho8Osama Mohamad7

Online presence

Updated 9 Nov 2026

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    onclive.com/authors/hak-choy-md

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    utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/stories/2020/hak-choy-profile.html

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  • Other

    utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/stories/2022/choy-prof-emeritus.html

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Background & recognition

Updated 9 Nov 2026

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Education

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Editorial & leadership roles

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  • Chair

    Lung Committee, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group

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