Meet Our Physician

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About Dr. Joshua Garren

Joshua Garren, MD
Radiation Oncologist

Dr. Joshua Garren is the Medical Director at Eastern Oregon Cancer Center. Dr. Garren is a board-certified radiation oncologist with over 20 years of experience treating patients. Dr. Garren has a compassionate and innovative approach to cancer treatment with a particular passion for minimizing side effects.


Professional Background & Expertise

Medical School

  • Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island

Training

  • Residency, Radiation Oncology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University / Beth

  • Israel Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

  • Internship, General Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

  • Additional Training, Neurosurgery, New York University, New York, New York

Education

  • Brown University, B.A. in International Relations, Providence, Rhode Island

  • Brown University, M.A. in Neuroscience, Providence, Rhode Island

‍ Licensures and Certification

  • American Board of Radiology (ABR) her Malignancies

Memberships

  • American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

  • Society for Neurological Oncology

  • American Medical Association

Honors and Awards

  • Castle Connolly’s “Top Doctor” Recognition

  • U.S. News and World Report’s Top Doctor

  • Vitals.com’s “Compassionate Physician Award”

  • America’s Top Radiologists/America’s Top Oncologists from Consumer Research

  • Council of America


Expertise

  • Prostate Cancer

  • Breast Cancer

  • Brain Tumors

  • Head and Neck Cancers

  • Lung Cancer

  • Colorectal Cancer

  • Esophageal Cancer

  • Stomach and Pancreatic Cancers

  • Sarcomas

  • Skin Cancer

  • Bone Metastases

  • Palliative Radiation Therapy

  • Additional Solid Tumors and Other Malignancies


Biography

Dr. Joshua Garren is a board-certified radiation oncologist with over 20 years of experience treating patients. Dr. Garren received his medical degree from Brown University, his training in neurosurgery from NYU, and his training in radiation oncology at SUNY Downstate/Beth Israel. During nearly a decade of academic practice at the Lahey Clinic, Dr. Garren was named one of Boston’s Top Doctors, several years running.

Dr. Garren has served on clinical faculty at SUNY Downstate, Tufts Medical School, and the University of Oklahoma. His research has garnered grant support and awards from the American Foundation for Aging Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the State of New York, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Department of Defense, the American Heart Association and the Sarnoff Endowment, and several others. His innovations have won him the Promising Investigator Award from the State of New York. He has served as lead investigator on clinical trials, and as chair of the morbidity and mortality board on others. He has served as a grant reviewer for the United States Government.

Dr. Garren’s global impact includes humanitarian work with orphans through Doctors of the World and an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship award to work at the Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon, Africa.

According to government records, Dr. Garren has for the past several years been ranked as one of our country's busiest radiation oncologists.

‍Dr. Garren’s love of patient care has inspired his children. He is father of five aspiring doctors, including a medical student currently at Oxford and two of his children recently accepted into medical school at Columbia Medical School and University of London. In his spare time, Dr. Garren enjoys doing whatever his children and wife want him to do, which often involves travel, skiing, and proof reading translations from lost manuscripts in dead languages. Dr. Garren is fluent in Russian and French.