The COMP Virtual Winter School Program includes both plenary and small group interactive sessions. This format will give attendees the chance to learn from “best in field” career development, medical physicists who have seen success in their careers and to exercise their new skills through workshopping.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the program will provide tools for medical physicists, radiation therapists, radiation oncologists and other healthcare professionals to support their personal career development process.
A regular component of Winter School, the Project Gallery, will provide opportunity for peer-to-peer learning about professional and program development initiatives that have helped lead to career growth for individuals, and program growth for healthcare teams. You can find more information on the abstract process here.
This meeting has been approved for 15 MPCEC hours.
Current State of SBRT Trials (Panel)
February 2, 2021 from 2:30pm EDT to 4:00pm EDT
In this section, participants will have the opportunity to hear from Dr.Zsolt Gabos, Dr. David Palma and Dr. Nick van As about the current state of SBRT trials and data as well as possible future orientations of SBRT treatments. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss with our panelists afterwards.
Speakers / Panelists
Laura Masucci, MD, FRCPC Radiation Oncologist
Laura Masucci, MD, FRCPC
Laura Masucci, MD, FRCPC Radiation Oncologist
Dr. Laura Masucci is a radiation oncologist at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM). After finishing her radiation oncology residency at the CHUM in 2010, she completed a fellowship at Princess Margaret Hospital specializing in the treatment of primary and secondary brain tumors and radiosurgery of vertebral metastases. She is presently heading the spine SBRT program at the CHUM and is site leader in both CNS oncology and spine SBRT at the department of radiation oncology. She previously served as program director for the radiation oncology residency program at the Université de Montréal. She is now president of the Association of Radiation Oncology of Québec (AROQ).
Dr. David Palma, MD, PhD is a Professor and Radiation Oncologist at Western University in London, Canada. He holds an MD from the University of Western Ontario, a Master’s Degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam. He is the chair of the Canadian Pulmonary Radiotherapy Investigators (CAPRI) group, and the author of the bestselling book Taking Charge of Cancer: What You Need to Know to Get the Best Treatment.
Nicholas van As, MBBCH MRCP FRCR MD(res) Consultant Clinical Oncologist & Medical Director
Nicholas van As, MBBCH MRCP FRCR MD(res)
Nicholas van As, MBBCH MRCP FRCR MD(res) Consultant Clinical Oncologist & Medical Director
Dr Nicholas van As was appointed Medical Director of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in January 2016. He has been a Consultant Clinical Oncologist in the Urology Unit at The Royal Marsden since 2008 and is the hospital’s Clinical Lead for stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and CyberKnife. Dr van As is also Chair of the UK SBRT Consortium and the national clinical lead for NHS England’s Commissioning through Evaluation Programme for SBRT. His main research interests are in stereotactic and image-guided radiotherapy, risk prediction in early prostate cancer, and functional MRI, and he has published numerous papers on these subjects and delivered presentations at international meetings. He is the Chief Investigator for the PACE trial – an international, randomised controlled trial comparing SBRT to image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and surgery for treating prostate cancer.