Education
- Chief Resident in Radiation Oncology
Barnes-Jewish Hospital of Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Residency in Radiation Oncology
Barnes-Jewish Hospital of Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Internship in Internal Medicine
Barnes-Jewish Hospital of Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Medical Doctorate
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Chemistry, Spanish
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Accolades & Memberships
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society
- Distinguished Alumni Scholar
- Herman B. Wells Scholar
- Austin’s Top Doctors, Radiation Oncology, Austin Monthly (2021)
Clinical Skills
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Tomotherapy Hi-Art
- Pinnacle
- Eclipse
- CMS treatment planning systems
Image-Guided and Adaptive Radiation Therapy
- Varian Trilogy-based kilovoltage cone-beam CT
- Brain-Lab-based kilovoltage cone-beam CT
- Tomotherapy-based magavoltage CT
- Electronic portal imaging
- PET/MRI/CT to CT fusion
Partial Breast Irradiation
- External beam radiation therapy
- Brachytherapy via interstitial implantation
- SAVI
- MammoSite RTS
Gamma Knife and Linear-Accelerator-Based Radiosurgery
- Gamma Knife radiosurgery
- Elekta Gamma Knife C unit
- Leksell / GammaPlan 5.31 software
- BrainLab
- Trilogy
- Tomotherapy-based extracranial stereotactic radiosurgery
- Elekta Stereotactic Body Frame immobilization device
- BodyFIX immobilization device
Prostate Brachytherapy
- Ultrasounded-guided I125 permanent seed implants using rapid strand, pre-loaded catheters and MIC applicators
- Varian/VARISEED 7.1 MMS treatment planning software
Respiratory Gating and 4D CT
- Varian Real-Time Position Management (RPM) with both fractionated and radiosurgical techniques
- 4D CT simulation and its use in treatment planning
High Dose Rate (HDR) Bracytherapy
- Placement of intracavitary HDR implants
- Placement of interstitial HDR implants
- Placement of HDR catheters
- Associated 2D, 3D, PET/CT, and MRI-based treatment planning
- Nucletron treatment planning system
- VariSource treatment planning system
Unsealed Sources
- Bexxar
- Zevalin
- Oral I131
- SR89
- SIRSphere administration
- Sm153
Other Information
Dr. Tierney is originally from Indianapolis, though he has studied and lived in St. Louis, Mexico, Australia, and Japan. His interests include biking, watersports, motorsports, fishing, and spending time with his family.