Nancy J. Tarbell
Nancy Jane Tarbell is the C.C. Wang Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Previously, she was the Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs at Harvard Medical School (2008–2019). Education. Born in Hudson, MA, she attended the University of Rhode Island where she graduated with a major in psychology. She attended SUNY Upstate Medical University for her medical degree. After medical school, she trained at the former Harvard Joint Center for Radiation Therapy in Boston where she served as Chief Resident. Research. Dr. Tarbell developed the pediatric radiation oncology service at Massachusetts  General Hospital from 1997–2008. Prior to that, she led the pediatric radiation oncology program at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is a specialist in pediatric oncology and pediatric brain tumors and serves on the national Children’s Oncology Group Brain Tumor Committee. Publications. She has authored more than 250 original publications and book chapters. Her h-index according to Google Scholar is 89 with 24,652 citations (as of January 31, 2020). She is co-editor of "Pediatric Radiation Oncology", now in its 6th edition.