2024 Hideo “Dale” Kubo Memorial Lecture

Hideo "Dale" Kubo, Ph.D.
1943-2003
Professor and Chief of Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology

Hideo "Dale" Kubo, served as Professor and Chief of Physics at UC Davis School of Medicine from 1991 to 2003. He completed his doctorate in Nuclear and Atomic Physics at the University of Rochester in 1973, and his post-graduate training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

While at Massachusetts General Hospital, he worked in radiation dosimetry, and contributed to the field by creating calorimetry-absorbed dose standards for high-energy electron and photon beams and air-kerma standards for photon brachytherapy.

After joining the radiation oncology department at UC Davis Cancer Center in 1991, Kubo led emergent technology for breathing-synchronized radiotherapy, the first to implement gating for photon-beam radiotherapy and bring a breathing cycle irradiation system to treat lung cancer to the West.

As a mentor and a teacher, he dedicated himself to train physicists, medical students, residents and fellows. His work contributed to the establishment of the UC Davis radiation oncology physician residency program. He was developing a similar residency program for medical physicists, as well as a visiting scholar program, before his death. Established in 2007, the Kubo Memorial Lecture keeps alive the memory of this active and respected educator and scientist, to celebrate and perpetuate his numerous contributions to radiation oncology.