Jean Wright, MD, FASTRO
Clinical Affairs and Quality Council Vice-chair
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
EDUCATION
- MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 2003
- BA, Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1995
POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION
- Resident, Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, 2004 - 2008
- Internship, Internal Medicine, Yale University Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2003 - 2004
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, 2014 - present
- Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Miami, Miami, 2008 - 2013
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 2014 - present
- Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, 2014 - present
- Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, Washington, DC, 2014 - present
- Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, 2008 - 2013
- University of Hospital, Miami, 2008 - 2013
SERVICE TO ASTRO
- Chair, Clinical Affairs and Quality Committee, 2022 - 2024
- Vice-chair, Clinical Affairs and Quality Committee, 2020 - 2022
- Immediate Past Chair, Practice Accreditation Subcommittee, 2020 - 2023
- Co-Chair, Practice Accreditation Subcommittee, 2018 - 2020
- Member, Annual Meeting Education Committee, 2018 - 2024
- ASTRO Representative, National Association for Programs in Breast Cancer (NAPBC), 2018 - 2021
- Member, Practice Accreditation Subcommittee, 2016 - 2018
- Member, Breast Resource Panel, 2015 - 2019
- Surveyor, ASTRO Accreditation Program for Excellence (APEx), 2014 - present
- Member, Annual Meeting Breast Track, 2013 - 2017, 2021 - 2024
SERVICE TO OTHER ONCOLOGY OR RADIOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS
- Member, Locoregional Working group, BIG-NCTN Annual Meeting, 2023
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Breast Cancer Guideline Advisory Group, 2019 - 2023
- Quality Symposium Meeting Planning Committee 2020 - 2022
- Member, Breast Oncology Local Disease (BOLD) Task Force, ECOG-ACRIN Representative, 2017 - present
- Member, ECOG-ACRIN Breast Committee, 2015 - present
- Member, Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium Locoregional Working Group, 2015 - present
- American Radium Society Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee, 2015, 2022 - 2024
- Radiological Society of North America
- Member, Oncologic Imaging and Therapies Task Force, 2014 - 2017
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Jean L. Wright is currently Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, and serves as the Director of the Breast Radiation Oncology Program, as well as the Vice Chair for Safety and Quality for the department of radiation oncology. After completing medical school at Columbia University and radiation oncology residency at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, she was on the faculty at the University of Miami for six years. She joined Johns Hopkins in 2014, and became Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of North Carolina in August 2024. Dr. Wright specializes in radiation treatment for breast cancer. She is breast section editor of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics, a member of the American Board of Radiology Breast Committee and the Breast Oncology Local Disease (BOLD) Task Force, and has volunteered extensively for ASTRO, most recently as Chair of the Clinical Affairs and Quality Committee.
