At only 39 years old, Dr Rafael Manon has quickly become one of the United States’ leading experts on radiation oncology and technological advances in cancer treatments. Rafael Manon received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University, where he graduated summa cum laude from the College of Arts and Sciences. Trained in internal medicine and radiation oncology at the University of Florida and the University of Wisconsin Madison, Rafael Manon received his medical degree in 2000 and since then, has become a well known and widely published physician and researcher at the top of the clinical oncology field.
Working out of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Orlando, FL, Dr Rafael Manon has become the director of research in the radiation oncology department, and has spearheaded a number of research projects on the use of imaging in reducing healthy tissue damage in radiation-based cancer treatments, through techniques like helical topotherapy, which he helped develop as a resident in Wisconsin. Dr Rafael Manon has won awards such as the Office of Naval Research’s Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Award and Orlando Health’s Exemplary Physician Colleague Award.
Dr Rafael Manon is a member of a number of organizations, such as the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. In addition, Rafael Manon is a faculty member of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Florida State University, and the University of Central Florida, and acted as an instructor in radiological therapies in his final year of residency at the University of Wisconsin. Dr Rafael Manon’s work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, and he consistently breaks new ground in cutting edge studies of technologically based cancer treatments, while simultaneously treating patients with multiple cancer types with astounding success rates.
