Allison Grow, M.D.

Allison Grow is a north Florida native, having grown up in Tallahassee with several generations of roots in southwest Georgia.  She mostly enjoyed the humanities and creative arts in school while growing up, and then developed an interest in the sciences in college at Florida State University. She completed a premedical curriculum while majoring in physics and applied math, and went on to obtain a PhD in theoretical physics.  While teaching college physics at Florida A&M University, her interest in medicine was rekindled, and she eventually moved to California to attend Stanford School of Medicine. 

Her initial interests were in pediatrics and obstetrics, but these were quickly and decisively overshadowed by the challenges and rewards of working with cancer patients on a surgical oncology rotation.  Exploring options in oncology, she 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 radiation oncology program there, following in the famed footsteps of several senior FROGs! While there, she appreciated the opportunity to participate in projects relating to CyberKnife radiosurgery for gastrointestinal cancers and to prognostic factors for lymphoma, as well as Stanford’s unique expertise in both areas. 

She also 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.  After ten great years in California, she really missed home, and once she discovered a group as strong as FROG in Florida, joining was an easy decision!  She is very excited to be a part of launching CyberKnife radiosurgery in Jacksonville. 

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