Comprised of experts in their fields, our radiation oncology team includes physicians, nurses, radiation therapists, physicists and other trained personnel who have earned widespread respect in the medical community. As a result, we receive patient referrals from around the world.
Our Physicians
Our physicians have trained at some of the nation's most prestigious cancer centers and are all board certified by the American Board of Radiology. Our staff of highly trained and experienced radiation oncology experts includes Medical Director Robert Wollman, M.D., Leslie E. Botnick, M.D., and Paul Y.Song, M.D., as well as Marc Botnick, M.D., who leads our brachytherapy team.
Robert C. Wollman, M.D.
Dr. Wollman is the Medical Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Chariman of the Cancer Committee at Saint John's Health Center. His areas of expertise include prostate, bladder, breast, brain, melanoma, lung, gastrointestinal, head & neck cancers, as well as IMRT/IGRT (Intensity Modulated/Gated Radiation Therapy). He has lectured widely on prostate cancer, skin cancer, and head & neck cancer. Dr. Wollman’s publications include articles on the outcome of radiation for prostate cancer, the hormonal regulation of breast cancer, as well as chapters in the text book Cancer Medicine.
Dr. Wollman graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology and he received his Medical Degree from New York University School of Medicine. His internship was spent at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and his residency was completed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he served as Chief Resident in Radiation Oncology.
Leslie E. Botnick, M.D.
Dr. Botnick has been a radiation oncologist at Saint John's Health Center since October 1998. His areas of expertise include the cyotoxic effect of chemotherapy agents on the bone marrow, cell kinetic and murine bone physiology, whole body radiation in humans and the separation of hematopoietic toxicity from stromal marrow toxicity in vivo.
Dr. Botnick graduated from Brooklyn College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and received his Medical Degree from New York Medical College. He completed his post-graduate training at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City and at Harvard Medical School's Joint Center for Radiation Therapy in Boston.
Dr. Botnick was an assistant professor in Radiation Oncology at the Harvard Medical School for four years. He was Clinical Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Southern California for eight years and has been an Associate Clinical Professor in Radiation Therapy at UCLA since 1983.
Paul Y. Song, M.D.
Dr. Song graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received his medical degree from George Washington University. He completed his residency in radiation oncology at the University of Chicago in 1995, where he also served as Chief Resident and was honored by the American Society for Therapuetic Radiology and Oncology as an ASTRO Research Fellow for 1995-96 for his research in genetic radiotherapy.
Dr. Song was a visiting brachytherapy fellow at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France and the co-chief of the brachytherapy service at the Center for Prostate Disease Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He was named one of the top doctors in Washington, D.C., by Washingtonian Magazine and Consumer’s Checkbook in 2002 and 2005.
He has established successful de novo HDR (prostate-GYN-Mammosite breast) and prostate seed brachytherapy, sterotactic radiosurgery, and IMRT programs. He has also published several articles on the treatment of prostate cancer and brain tumors.
Marc Botnick, M.D.
Dr. Botnick is experienced at HDR and permanent seed prostate implants in addition to implants for Head and Neck, Gynecological, Lung and soft tissue malignancies. His primary interests include Prostate, Head and Neck as well as Colorectal Cancer.
Dr. Botnick received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania followed by a Medical Degree from the Hahnemann University School of Medicine. He completed his Radiation Oncology residency training at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York where he dedicated an entire year towards advanced brachytherapy training.
He serves as one of the primary brachytherapists at Saint John’s Health Center.