Seattle CyberKnife Center

Sandra Vermeulen, M.D.
Co-Director and Radiation Oncologist

Dr. Vermeulen is medical co-director of Seattle CyberKnife Center. Dr. Vermeulen's primary interest for more than two decades has been in the field of stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy for treating both intracranial and extracranial benign and malignant tumors. She has more than 15 years experience working with various stereotactic treatment devices, including gamma knife and linear accelerator-based technologies.

Dr. Vermeulen serves on two international stereotactic boards - International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Association and International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society. She served as medical vice president to the American Cancer Society/Seattle Unit from 1989-1993. She co-founded the Deke Slayton Center for Brain Cancer Studies, which funded local brain cancer research as well as raised public awareness and education of the causes and treatment for brain cancer.

Dr. Vermeulen's research interests have included breast brachytherapy, radiation therapy for macular degeneration and T-cell therapy of androgen resistant metastatic prostate cancer and functional radiosurgery with the Leksel Gamma Knife in the treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia and Tremors.

After finishing her residency at Loma Linda University in 1987, she became assistant professor of radiation medicine at the university's prestigious Proton Beam Facility. Eventually she and her husband relocated to Seattle, Washington, where she is currently in practice at Swedish Medical Center, as part of the Swedish Cancer Institute and Seattle Neuroscience Institute at Swedish.

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