Siteman Cancer Center
Center for Advanced Medicine
4921 Parkview Place, Floor LL
St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 747-7236
Fax: (314) 362-7769
Mailing Address:
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8224
St. Louis, MO 63110
Areas of Clinical Interest:
Brain tumors, gamma knife, radiosurgery, head and neck cancer, brain
cancer, central nervous system cancer
Board Certification:
Radiation Oncology--Certified
Internal Medicine—Certified
Medical Education:
PhD: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1967
Fellowship: Yale University, 1969
Medical School: Harvard Medical School, 1973
Residency: Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
Chief Resident: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Wisconsin
Hospital, Madision, Wisconsin, 1978
Hospital Affiliations:
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Invited Publications:
Wasserman, T.H., Rich, K.R., Drzymala, R.E., Simpson, J.R.: Stereotactic
External Beam Irradiation. In: Perez, C.A. and Brady, L.W. (Eds.) Principles
and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 3rd Edition, J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia,
pp. 387- 404, 1998
Simpson, J.R., Lee, H.K.: Cancer of the Salivary Glands. In: Perez, C.A.
and Brady, L.W., (Eds.) Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 3rd
Edition, J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, pp. 961-980, 1998
Simpson, J.R.: Salivary Glands. In: Perez, C.A., Brady, L.W., Halperin,
E.C., Schmidt-Ullrich, R.K., eds. Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology,
4th edition. New York, NY: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, pp. 976-996, 2003.
Simpson, J.R.: Oropharynx (Tonsillar Fossa, Faucial Arch, and Base of
Tongue). In: Perez, C.A., Brady, L.W., Halperin, E.C., Schmidt-Ullrich,
R.K., eds. Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 4th edition. New
York, NY: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, pp. 1022-1070, 2003.
Journal Articles:
Simpson, J.R., Horton, J., Scott, C., Curran, W.J., Rubin, P., Fischbach,
J., Isaacson, S., Rotman, M., Asbell, S.O., Nelson, J.S., Weinstein, A.S.:
Influence of location and extent of surgical resection on survival of patients
with glioblastoma multiforme: Results of 3 consecutive Radiation Therapy
Oncology Group (RTOG) clinical trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 26(2):239-244,
1993
Simpson, J.R., Scott, C.B., Rotman, M., Curran, W.J., Constine, L.S.,
Fischbach, A.J., Asbell, S.O. Race and prognosis of brain tumor patients
entering multicenter clinical trials: a report from the Radiation Therapy
Oncology Group. Am J Clin Oncol (CCT) 19(2):114-120, 1996
Scott, C.B., Scarantino, C., Urtasun, R., Movsas, B., Jones, C.U., Simpson,
J.R., Fischback, A.J., Curran, W.J. Jr.: Validation and predictive power
of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) recursive partitioning analysis
classes for malignant glioma patients: A report using RTOG 90-06. Int J
Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 40:51-56, 1998
Simpson, J.R., Mendenhall, W.M., Schupak, K.D., Larson, D., Bloomer,
W.D., Buckley, J.A., Gaspar, L.E., Gibbs, F.A., Lewin, A.A., Loeffler, J.S.,
Malcolm, A.W., Schneider, J.F, Shaw, E.G., Wharam, M.D. Jr., Gutin, P.H.,
Rogers, L., Leibel, S. (Expert Panel on Radiation Oncology Brain Metastases
Work Group): Follow-up and retreatment of brain metastasis. ACR appropriateness
criteria. Radiology 215(Suppl):1129-1135, 2000
Chao, K.S., Kaplan, C., Simpson, J.R., Haughey, B., Spector, G.J., Sessions,
D.G., Arquette, M.: Esthesnioneuroblastoma: The impact of treatment modality.
Head &Neck 23:749-757, 2001
Mansur, D.B., Drzymala,R., Rich, K., Klein, E., Simpson, J.R.: The efficacy
of stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of intracranial ependymoma.
Accepted for publication in J Neuro-Oncology 6/11/03.
