Christopher M McLaughlin, MD
Radiation Oncology
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Bio & Overview
As a radiation oncologist, Christopher McLaughlin, MD, uses radiation therapy to treat cancer. He specializes in treating head and neck cancers, skin cancer, and genitourinary malignancies, including prostate cancer. But like many radiation oncologists, he is able to treat many different types of solid tumors. He has expertise in several kinds of treatment including:
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy
- Volumetric modulated arc therapies
- Stereotactic body radiotherapy
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for brain tumors
- Prostate brachytherapy
- Breast brachytherapy
- Gynecologic brachytherapy
Dr. McLaughlin was born in New Haven and grew up in southern New England. He attended Boston College, where he studied theology. He fell in love with Boston and remained there to attend medical school at Tufts University.
He joined UVA in 2020 after completing his radiation oncology residency training at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he served as chief resident.
Dr. McLaughlin lives in Fluvanna County with his loyal black lab mix, Scout. “I absolutely love it here. On sunny days, you can find us out on the beautiful trails around Charlottesville and Shenandoah,” he shares. “As a New Englander, I grew up around the water and on the slopes, and I continue to enjoy swimming and skiing.”
Academic Information
- Department
- Radiation Oncology
- Academic Role
- Associate Professor
- Division
- Radiation Oncology
- Research Interests
- Dr. McLaughlin is interested in leveraging adaptive radiotherapy to reduce toxicity from treatment and to improve patient outcomes, particularly in the setting of head and neck cancer. In addition, he has focused on the comparative costs of various interventions for cancer, utilizing activity-based costing analyses. His research has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications and national meeting presentations. He also has a strong interest in medical education.
Conditions & Treatments
- Cancer
- Radiation treatment for head and neck cancer
- Reirradiation for recurrent head and neck cancers
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Tufts University School of Medicine (2015)
- Residency
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (2020)
- Certification
- American Board of Radiology (Radiation Oncology)
Highlights
Christopher M McLaughlin
I'm Chris McLaughlin. I am a radiation oncologist here at the University of Virginia Cancer Center. I specialize in treating head and neck cancer and prostate cancer. And that involves not only doing x-ray treatments to those areas, but I also do a lot of something called brachytherapy, which is kind of a radiation implant, almost like a surgery, but just using needles, and it allows us to deliver radiation internally. I see adult patients, although sometimes children as well, who present with these kinds of diseases, and I see them before they get any treatment, during their entire treatment course with radiation, and really get to know them and see them for months and often years after their treatment. I really love being invited into others' lives at very hard times when they're struggling with something enormous and life-changing. With UVA, we have that advantage of having all of your physicians, all of your cancer physicians, working together and communicating and collaborating each day.
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