Salim Balik

Salim Balik, PhD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Southern California (USC). He serves as the Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program at Keck Medicine of USC, focusing on advancing radiation therapy techniques through research and clinical innovation.

Dr. Balik's research centers on medical physics, image-guided radiation therapy, and computational imaging. His work includes developing AI-driven segmentation models for brachytherapy, optimizing dosimetry in stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), and analyzing motion effects in lung radiotherapy using dynamic virtual patient models. Recent publications emphasize GRID collimator-based spatial fractionation, HyperArc stereotactic radiosurgery, and 4D cone-beam CT integration.

His scholarly contributions reveal trends in machine learning for tumor contouring, dosimetric validation for clinical trials, and adaptive radiation therapy for lung and spine cancers. Articles frequently address organ-at-risk sparing, intrafraction motion management, and heterogeneity correction algorithms.