Wendla Karen Citron, MD

After earning a BS in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Citron went to medical school at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. She went on to complete an internship in internal medicine and then her residency at The University of Chicago, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, where she served as chief resident.

As part of her residency, Dr. Citron completed externships at the Institut Curie in Paris and the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. Here, she completed additional training in breast cancer treatment, brachytherapy techniques, cone beam CT and proton beam therapy.

After working for two years at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Dr. Citron joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine as an Assistant professor of radiation oncology. She currently serves as radiation oncology residency program co-director and medical director of radiation oncology at the Tate Cancer Center at University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center.

Her research and clinical interests include sarcoma 3-D conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, image-guided radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy and proton therapy. She treats cancers of the central nervous system, head and neck, lung and breast as well gynecologic, gastrointestinal and genitourinary cancers and lymphoma.