Goldie A Kurtz, MD

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Description of Clinical Expertise

Central Nervous System Radiotherapy: Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Brain and Spine
Pediatric Radiotherapy
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
CyberKnife Radiotherapy
Proton Therapy

Selected Publications

• Rupesh Kotecha, Veronica Chiang, Martin C Tom, Ephraim Parent, Ali Nabavizadeh, Barry A Siegel, Jiayi Huang, Elcin Zan, Srinivas Peddi, Steven Brem, Marcus Ware, Erik P Sulman, Santosh Kesari, Whitney Pope, Robin Holmes, Albert Chau, Eugene J Teoh, Samuel T Chao, Mariam Aboian; PURSUE Study Group:Marissa Barbaro, Surya Chundru, Stephen Fogelson, Manu S Goyal, Albert H Kim, Douglas Kondziolka, Goldie Kurtz, Mary Lokuta, Minesh P Mehta, Matthew P Miller, Yazmin Odia, Maria Rosana Ponisio, Sharon Weick : 18F-Fluciclovine for Detection of Recurrent Brain Metastases After Radiation Therapy: Image Interpretation Criteria and Diagnostic Performance From the PURSUE Study Int J Radiat Biol Phys. 25(5) Aug 2026
• Linkowski L, Messing I, Berger M, Hollawell C, Friedes C, Alexander D, Wang X, Desai AS, Phillips RE, O'Rourke DM, Amankulor NM, Jackson C, Hubbeling H, Kurtz G, Bagley SJ, Bradley JD, Mohan S, Alonso-Basanta M, Lebow ES : Hypofractionated Proton Reirradiation for Recurrent Glioblastoma: Clinical and Dosimetric Outcomes from a Large Single Institution Series. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys : Online ahead of print., Jul 2026
• Song JH, Baron J, Perez CC, Ramesh S, Minturn J, Desai KA, Shah AC, Belasco JM, Cole KA, Fisher MJ, Storm PB, Madsen PM, Kurtz G, Lustig RA, Hill-Kayser C, LaRiviere MJ. : Feasibility and Safety of High Dose Proton Re-irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single Institution Retrospective Study. Pediatric Blood Cancer May 2026
• Akbari H, Mohan S, Liu F, Jiang C, Fathi Kazerooni A, Berger M, Rathore S, Bilello M, Sako C, Garcia J, Brem S, Bakas S, Mamourian E, Pepin A, James P, Dorsey J, Singh A, Parker D, Verma R, Cao Q, Bagley SJ, Desai A, O'Rourke DM, Shinohara RT, Nasrallah MP, Teo BK, Kurtz G, Shukla G, Alonso-Basanta M, Lustig RA, Davatzikos C. : Personalized machine learning-guided radiation dose escalation in newly diagnosed glioblastoma: prospective pilot study. Nat Commun 17(1) May 2026
• Friedes C, Berger M, Linkowski L, Hollawell C, Hubbeling H, Alexander D, Kurtz G, Lustig RA, Dorsey JF, Desai AS, Phillips RE, Brem S, Davatzikos C, Nasrallah M, O'Rourke DM, Jackson C, Amankulor NM, Alonso-Basanta M, Mohan S, Bagley SJ, Lebow ES. : Clinical, molecular, and immunologic determinants of survival in WHO-defined IDH-wildtype glioblastoma treated with radiotherapy: a large real-world cohort study J Neurooncology 177(3) April 2026
• Messing I, Linkowski L, Riina MD, Berger M, Baron J, Wang X, Kallan M, Hubbeling HG, Lustig RA, Dorsey JF, Kurtz G, Nagda S, Lukens JN, Flowers A, Lee JYK, Amankulor NM, Jackson C, Mohan S, Amaravadi RK, Schuchter LM, Huang AC, Mitchell TC, Alonso-Basanta M, Lebow ES. : Outcomes after SRS and Ipilimumab plus Nivolumab for Melanoma Brain Metastases Following Prior Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor or Targeted Therapy Oncologist 31(4) March 2026
• Jiang C, McWilliams T, Berger M, Lebow ES, Hubbeling H, Azar E, Kolker JD, Nagda SN, Kurtz G, Zou JW, Scheuermann R, Kumar A, Alonso-Basanta M. : Periventricular Radionecrosis after Conventionally Fractionated Radiation for Low Grade Meningiomas Radiation Oncology 20(1) November 2025
• Melanie Berger, Cole Friedes, Lauren Linkowski, Casey Hollawell, Harper Hubbeling, Robert Lustig, Goldie Kurtz, Jay Dorsey, Arati Desai, Richard Phillips, MacLean Nasrallah, Ali Nabavizadeh, Steven Brem, John Lee, Donald O'Rourke, Nduka Amankulor, Steven Bagley, Suyash Mohan, Michelle Alonso-Basanta, Emily Lebow : Clinical and Dosimetric Predictors of Severe Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia in Patients with Newly Diagnosed IDH-Wildtype High Grade Glioma Undergoing Adjuvant Radiotherapy American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting September 2025 Notes: Poster presentation, ASTRO Annual Meeting, Abstract #: 69540
• Goldie A Kurtz, Anusha Kalbasi, Brett Hartl, Bridget Bieda, Uri Amit, Michelle Alonso-Basanta, Michael J LaRiviere, Christine E Hill-Kayser : Life-Threatening Malignancy in Pregnancy: A Case Series of Three Patients Treated with Proton Radiotherapy with Long Term Follow-up. Canadian Associate of Radiation Oncology, Annual Meeting 2025 September 2025 Notes: Poster Presentation
• Matthew Riina, Emily Lebow, Yoshiya Yamada, Jessica Wilcox, Luke Pike, Brandon Imber, Ian Messing, Robert Lustig, Harper Hubbeling, Goldie Kurtz, Michelle Alonso-Basanta, Andrew Seidman, Elena Pentsova, Helena Yu, Mark Kris, Nelson Moss, Jonathan Yang, Adrienne Boire, Yao Yu : Proton Craniospinal Radiation for Leptomeningeal Disease from Patients with Metastatic Solid Tumors: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Analysis American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting September 2025 Notes: Poster Presentation, ASTRO Annual Meeting, Abstract #: 70316