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Lifetime Achievement Awards
Lifetime
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Rumpa Amornmarn, M.D.
Radiation Oncologist | Vice President, Osceola Cancer Center President, Artesan, LLC apy using high energy linear accelerator to treat all types of cancer with conventional treatments, IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy), IGRT (Image Guided Radiation therapy) using 6D BrainLAB system, SRS (Stereotactic Radiosurgery) for single or multiple brain metastasis, SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy) for small primary tumor or metastasis in lung, liver, bone or adrenal glands, APBR (accelerated partial
Rumpa Amornmarn, M.D., is a breast irradiation) for lumpectomy and radiation oncologist (using ionized finding early breast cancer. CT and PET radiation to treat cancer). She is the scans are available for diagnostic and vice president of the Osceola Cancer Cen- treatment planning for patients. Patients ter and president of Artesan, LLC. Dr. Center in Jacksonville, Florida, treating who needs chemotherapy are able to get Amornmarn is also an associate professor all tumors above the umbilicus including both treatments at the center. of radiation oncology at the University breast, lung, head and neck cancer, and Dr. Amornmarn is board certified by of Central Florida. Her medical journey brain tumors. Dr. Amornmarn served as the American Board of Radiology and began with a scholarship for the top 10% a tenured associate professor of radiation is a member of the American Society of in premedical at the Faculty of Science of oncology at the University of Florida. Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. For over 15 years, she oversaw several American College of Radiology, the FlorShe graduated in the top three in her class basic research studies (growing tumor ida Radiological Society, the American from Siriraj Medical School, Mahidol cell and studying molecular structure Society of Clinical Oncology, The Johns University in 1971, and received awards of tumor) in glioblastoma multiforme Hopkins Medical and Surgical Society, in pediatrics and pathology. and ovarian cancer, and published many The Johns Hopkins Medical Alumni As-
From July of 1977 through January scientific articles related to these subjects, sociation, and the Radio-surgery Society. of 1981, Dr. Amornmarn was on the while presenting at national meetings. She is on the medical staff at Osceola staff of the VA East Orange, New Jersey In 1999, Dr. Amornmarn joined a Medical Center in Kissimmee, Florida. and served as an assistant professor of group of medical oncologists to form Among many awards, Dr. Amornradiology at New Jersey Medical School. a new free-standing cancer center in marn was listed in The Best Doctors in She moved to Maryland in 1981 after Kissimmee, Florida. This group gave her America (first edition), Who’s Who in marriage and served as an assistant the opportunity to set up a new center America, and The Dictionary of Internaprofessor of radiation oncology at the from the ground up with modern equip- tional Biography XVII. She was recently University of Maryland, specializing in ment and advanced new technologies to named the Patient Preferred Physician head-neck cancer and brachytherapy. In treat cancer patients. Osceola Cancer representing Radiation Oncology in 1983, she joined the University Medical Center (OCC) offers external beam ther- Florida for 2020.
How did you get started in your field/industry?
After completing medical school in Thailand to fulfill my dad’s wishes, I moved to the U.S. to avoid entanglement with the Vietnam War. After my internship, the internal medicine program was suspended a month before it started. Fortunately, I learned about an opening for a resident in radiation oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. I interviewed, got the position, and began my career there.
What are some of the biggest challenges/obstacles you faced in your career?
It’s a misconception that women aren’t serious about their careers and can’t perform as well as men, especially if they are good looking.
