Allison Grow is a north Florida native, having grown up in Tallahassee with several generations of roots in southwest Georgia.  While she enjoyed a broad range of humanities and science courses in high school and college, her undergraduate and doctoral degrees were in applied math and theoretical physics.  Her interest in medicine was rekindled while teaching college physics at Florida A&M University, and she eventually moved to California to attend Stanford School of Medicine.   

Allison continued to enjoy teaching enormously throughout her medical training, working as a teaching assistant in human anatomy and as a physics lecturer for a team-taught interdisciplinary undergraduate science course.  She became hooked on oncology after working with cancer patients on a surgical oncology rotation, and was thrilled to discover the discipline of radiation oncology, which allowed her to combine patient care with her past interest in physics.  She remained at Stanford for residency training in the very strong program there, following in the famed footsteps of several senior FROGs! While there, she appreciated the opportunity to learn from the doctors who invented the CyberKnife and defined its first applications. 

After ten great years in California, Dr. Grow really missed home, and once she discovered a group as strong as FROG in Florida, joining was an easy hop to make!  She is very excited to be a part of helping to make the powerful technique of radiosurgery widely available in Jacksonville. She enjoys the broad range of diseases and body sites treatable with radiosurgery, and takes a particular interest in lung cancer, having treated more lung lesions than any other CyberKnife center worldwide in 2007 and 2008.  She has reported results of her research on early-stage lung and other cancers and PET imaging response after radiosurgery at various national conferences.

Away from work, she enjoys choral music, playing piano and flute, a little karaoke now and then, hiking, traveling, baking and spending time with her growing family.