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.
Overcoming Obstacles to Wider Adoption of SBRT (Presentation and Group Discussions)
February 3, 2021 from 11:30am EDT to 1:00pm EDT
There are many obstacles that must be overcome to gain a wider adoption of SBRT in our clinics. Most of these obstacles are due to the lack of departmental resources that is usually fixed to budgets and prioritization. This session is to try and decipher how to evaluate and utilize existing resources wisely and work towards a wider SBRT program.
Resources can be categorized into financial, personnel, education, training, equipment (machines, dosimetry, set-up, disposables goods, etc.) and more. It can be daunting for many departments to try and adopt SBRT practices when resourcing it “properly” is not possible. However, if one can objectively look at what is available, what resources can be gained, decide on an SBRT site to begin the program, a safe, wider adoption may be possible. In this session, we will try and explore through a short didactic, and through wider group discussions, try to understand what resources can be tapped into, what is the “minimum requirement” in a department to start an SBRT program. We will aim to tie together previous didactics and panel discussions as well as explore the resourcing through clinical trials and power of networking to adopt a safe, sustainable SBRT program.
Speakers / Panelists
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Overcoming Obstacles to Wider Adoption of SBRT (Presentation and Group Discussions)
February 3, 2021 from 11:30am EDT to 1:00pm EDT
Young Lee, PhD, FIPEM, MBA
Medical Physicist
Young Lee, PhD, FIPEM, MBA
Young Lee, PhD, FIPEM, MBA
Medical Physicist
Recently made a career change to industry after working as a clinical physicist for 17 years in both Canada and UK. Previous experiences include leading the CNS site and Gamma Knife medical physics group at Sunnybrook Hospital, which has led to co-authoring more than 40 peer-reviewed journal publications and multiple book chapters.
She was a committee member to multiple clinical trials including the successful CCTG spine SBRT trial SC.24. She was also the CCTG Medical Physics representative in the National Clinical Trials Network group. She is a member of the COMP executive as a Treasurer and has chaired the 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting. She has recently completed the Global Executive MBA through Rotman in Healthcare and Life Sciences.
In her current role as Principal Medical Physicist at Elekta, she is hoping to modernize the radiation oncology QA processes and minimize the gap between clinical and industry radiation oncology.