A key member of our cancer care team, Xiaocheng Yang, PhD, DABR, is a medical physicist highly trained to manage the technical aspects of Trinity’s radiation oncology program. He consults with radiation oncologists to calculate doses and machine settings for radiation treatments and has chief responsibility for calibrating radiation sources like the linear accelerator to ensure that patients receive the prescribed radiation dose.

A graduate of Peking University, majoring in nuclear physics, Xiaocheng earned a master’s degree in optics from Capital Normal University in Beijing. His PhD in solid state physics was completed at West Virginia University, where he also served as a post-doctoral associate. He went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in medical physics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, and remained there to fulfill his medical physics residency at the U of Maryland Medical Center. He practiced at Good Samaritan Hospital Radiation Oncology Center in Baltimore prior to joining Trinity Health.

Xiaocheng has written numerous articles for peer-reviewed publications and presented at conferences of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, of which he is a member. He is board certified in therapeutic physics and a Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology.

Sally Eberle, FNP-C, is a board-certified nurse practitioner who is part of our Radiation Oncology team. A Minot native, Sally earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Medcenter One College of Nursing and practiced four years at Garrison Memorial Hospital before earning her Master of Science in Family Nurse Practice from the University of Mary.  She provided primary care services to patients at Trinity Health’s convenience clinic for seven years and spent three years serving patients at CHI St. Alexius Health. Most recently, Sally served as a nurse practitioner with our Family Medicine team at Trinity Health East Ridge since 2018. She’s certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and is a member of the North Dakota Nurse Practitioners Association. During her free time, she enjoys gardening, going to the lake and reading.