Anish Butala, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Chief, Palliative Radiation Oncology Service, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Department of Radiation Oncology
Director, Spine Radiotherapy Program, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Department of Radiation Oncology
Associate Chief, Clinical Operations, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Department of Radiation Oncology
Department: Radiation Oncology
Contact information
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BS (Management and Organizational Analysis)
New York University, 2012.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Northwestern University, 2016.
Permanent linkBS (Management and Organizational Analysis)
New York University, 2012.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Northwestern University, 2016.
Selected Publications
Chen XS, Zhang L, Ajithkumar T, Butala AA, Kim MM, Mayo CM, Rosen BS, Shen CJ, Murray L: Practice Patterns of Reirradiation for Brain and Spinal Tumors – An International Survey from the Reirradiation Collaborative Group (ReCOG). Practical Radiation Oncology April 2025.Messing I, Alexander D, Scheuermann R, Hubley E, Freeman C, Hassankhani A, Peters G, Butala AA: Reirradiation with Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Spinal Metastases: Planning Procedure from a High-Volume Multi-Disciplinary Spine Oncology Program (SOaR). American Radium Society Annual Meeting April 2025 Notes: Seattle, WA.
Alexander DA, Scheuermann R, Messing I, Malhotra N, Peters GW, Butala AA: Assessing the Impact of Intrafraction Shifts on Critical OAR Doses in a Standardized Spine SBRT Program. American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting July 2025 Notes: Washington DC.
Xu E, Karsalia R, Gabriel E, Napole A, Hejazi-Garcia C, Kost J, McClintock S, Schuster JM, Butala AA, Peters GW, Hassankhani A, Knollman H, Freeman C, Malhotra N: Preoperative Prediction of Postoperative Needs after Spinal Tumor Surgery. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery January 2025.
Bakhtiar M, Butala AA, Berlin EE, Metz JM, Bradley JD, Jones JA, Lukens JN, Paydar I, Taunk NK: Factors Associated With and Characteristics of Patients Receiving Proton Therapy at the End of Life. International Journal of Particle Therapy March 2024.
Friedes C, Butala AA: Palliative Radiotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer. Annals of Palliative Medicine November 2023.
Williams GR, Manjunath SH, Butala AA, Jones JA: Palliative Radiotherapy for Advanced Cancers: Indications and Outcomes. Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America 30(3): 563-580, July 2021.
Butala AA, Lee DY, Patel RR, Latif NA, Haggerty AF, Paydar I, Jones JA, Taunk NK.: A Retrospective Study of Rapid Symptom Response in Bleeding Gynecologic Malignancies With Short Course Palliative Radiation Therapy: Less is More. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 61(2): 377-383, February 2021.
Butala AA, Patel RR, Manjunath S, Latif NA, Haggerty AF, Jones JA, Taunk NK.: Palliative Radiation Therapy for Metastatic, Persistent, or Recurrent Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Efficacy in the Era of Modern Technology and Targeted Agents. Advances in Radiation Oncology 6: 100624, November 2020.
Butala AA, Lo SS, Jones JA: Advanced radiotherapy for metastatic disease-a major stride or a futile effort? Annals of Palliative Medicine 8(3): 337-351, July 2019.