Philosophy of Care

I am incredibly grateful for the amazing people I am privileged to treat. My goal is to counsel patients about their disease and treatment options so we can partner together to develop a personalized treatment plan based on unique patient needs and evidence-based medicine.

About

Academic Honors & Professional Achievements

Leadership: Dr. Funk is the Vice President of Radiation at Minnesota Oncology

• Chief Resident, Mayo Clinic Radiation Oncology Residency, 2016-2017
• Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award, RSNA, 2017
• Best of ASTRO Abstract Selection, 2014
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Student Scholar, 2008-2009
• National Merit Scholar 1999

Oral Presentations

• A Prospective Pilot Study Evaluating Feasibility and Utility of ECG-gated CT Angiography for Coronary-Sparing Radiation Therapy Planning in Mediastinal Lymphoma. ASTRO 2016 Annual Meeting
• Post-Implant Dosimetry in 972 Patients Undergoing Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy Monotherapy with Iodine-125. Snap oral and poster presentation. ABS 2015 Annual Meeting.
• Risk Factors for Locoregional Recurrence after Transoral Robotic Surgery for HPV+ Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. ASTRO 2014 Annual Meeting.
• Genetic Susceptibility to Therapy-Related Acute Murine Promyelocytic Leukemia. American Society for Hematology 2007 Annual Meeting.

Poster presentations

• Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy Monotherapy with I-125 for Low and Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer: Outcome in 966 Patients. ASTRO 2015 Annual Meeting
• Initial Results of a Prospective Pilot Study Evaluating Feasibility and Utility of ECG-Gated CT Angiography for Coronary-Sparing Radiation Therapy Planning in Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma. International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) 2015 Annual Meeting.
• Pooled Analysis of Locoregional Relapse after Minimally-Invasive Surgery Alone for Intermediate- or High-risk HPV+ Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Poster of Distinction Award. American Radium Society 2015 Annual Meeting.
• Dosimetric Comparison of IMRT vs Pencil-beam Scanning Proton Therapy for Distal Esophageal Cancer. Proton Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) 2015 Annual Meeting.
• External Beam Radiotherapy for Tracheobronchial Amyloidosis. ACRO 2014 Annual Meeting.
• BCL2, a Candidate Murine Therapy-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia Susceptibility Factor, Exhibits Strain-Dependent and Alkylator Responsive Expression. American Society for Hematology (ASH) 2008 Annual Meeting

Volunteer Experience

• Cubmaster 2013-2015, Boy Scouts of America, Gamehaven Council, Pack 296
• Scoutmaster, 2008-2010, Boy Scouts of America, Greater Saint Louis Area Council, Troop 151
• Representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philippines from July, 2000 till April, 2002

Research/Publications

• RK Funk, EJ More, JJ Garcia, WS Harmsen, DG Stoddard, EF Vencio, RL Foote, KP Price, and DJ Ma. Risk Factors for Locoregional Relapse after Transoral Robotic Surgery for HPV-Related Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Head and Neck. 38: E1674–E1679, 2016
• Ozsahin M, Mirimanoff RO, Thariat J, Sun XS, Atalar B, Lassen-Ramshad Y, Ugurluer G, Krishnan S, Hallemeier C, Houtte PV, Krengli M, Zhang LJ, Chang K, Funk R, Rooney J, Miller RC. The rare cancer network: ongoing studies and future strategy. Rare Tumors. 2014 Aug 8;6(3):5465.
• DJ Ferraro, RK Funk, JW Blackett, MR Ju, TA DeWees, MR Chicoine, JL Dowling, KM Rich, RE Drzmala, I Zoberi, JR Simpson, JJ Jaboin. A Retrospective Analysis of Survival and Prognostic Factors After Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Aggressive Meningiomas. Radiation Oncology, 2014, 9:38
• RK Funk, DJ Ferraro, RJ Perrin, KM Hurth, JJ Stephens, DB Mansur, MR Chicoine, JR Simpson, and JJ Jaboin. Recurrent adult-onset hypophyseal Langerhans cell histiocytosis after radiotherapy: a case report. J Medical Case Reports, 2012. 6:341.
• JM Cheverud, HA Lawson, R Funk, J Zhou, EP Blankenhorn, and E Heber-Katz. Healing quantitative trait loci in a combined cross analysis using related mouse strain crosses. Heredity 2012. 108: 441-446
• RK Funk, TJ Maxwell, M Izumi, D Edwin, F Kreisel, TJ Ley, JM Cheverud, and TA Graubert. Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Susceptibility to Therapy-Related Acute Murine Promyelocytic Leukemia in hCG-PML/RARA Transgenic Mice. Blood, August 15, 2008. 112(4): 1434-42

Board Certification

American Board of Radiology 

Affiliations

• American Medical Association
• American Society for Radiation Oncology
• American College of Radiation Oncology
• American Board of Radiology
• Rare Cancer Network

Committee Appointments

• Radiation Oncology Education Committee, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN 2014
• Graduate Education Committee- Resident member. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2014-present.
• ARRO Mutual Mentorship program 2014-present

Personal

My wife and 4 kids keep me busy and grounded. We prefer to be outside on bikes, in the water, or on cross country skis.