In 1987 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Chestnut Hill Hospital in Northwest Philadelphia joined forces in the fight against cancer. This partnership formed the Jefferson-Chestnut Hill Radiation Oncology Center, which conveniently brings the top cancer specialists and the latest in oncologic treatments and equipment from Jefferson to patients living in Northwest Philadelphia and eastern Montgomery County.
The Jefferson-Chestnut Hill Radiation Oncology Center is staffed by the experienced team of physicians from Jefferson's department of radiation oncology, along with physicists, technologists and nurses trained at Jefferson. In addition, the Center houses a six-megavolt linear accelerator which is used to treat most cancers, including those of the head, neck, breast, lung, prostate, colon and rectum.
William T. Grizos, M.D. is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College and completed internal medicine and radiation oncology training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Radiation Oncology. He also completed one year clinical gastroenterology fellowship at Presbyterian University of Pennsylvania. As an assistant professor, in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Jefferson from 1988 to 1991, his particular areas of expertise included gastrointestinal malignancies and intraoperative radiation therapy. After leaving Jefferson he pursued an additional clinical interest in the use of microwave hyperthermia combined with radiation in the treatment of various body surface tumors. Dr. Grizos' other interests include the establishment and implementation of advance radiation oncology technology and services for local patient access. Dr. Grizos is a regular lecturer in Radiation Oncology at the Gwynedd Mercy College. Since returning to Jefferson in August of 1999, Dr. Grizos has assumed the position of Medical Director of the Radiation Oncology Center at Chestnut Hill.
Having treatment at the Jefferson-Chestnut Hill Radiation Oncology Center offers patients the advantage of being treated at a Thomas Jefferson University Hospital facility without having to travel to the Center City.
For more information on the Jefferson-Chestnut Hill Center, please call 215-248-8712.
