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.
Setting Up SBRT Program
February 4, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 12:30pm EDT
As part of the panel discussion on ‘Setting up an SBRT program’, I will share my experience in setting up a prostate SBRT program at the Allan Blair Cancer Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. Topics of discussion may include, but are not limited to:
· Knowledge resources available
· Patient prep, immobilization, and setup
· Incorporation of MR imaging to aid in target delineation
· Use of fiducial markers for MR-CT registration and IGRT on-line matching
· Planning margin analysis and margin reduction for stereotactic treatment
· Treatment planning optimization and OAR tolerances
· IGRT workflow during treatment
· Strategies around prostate intra-fraction motion
· Equipment and patient-specific quality assurance
· Building a robust program through interdisciplinary collaboration and training
· Documentation
· Identifying stakeholders and ensuring proper communication
Speakers / Panelists
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Patient Reported Outcomes from Patient's Point of View
February 3, 2021 from 3:30pm EDT to 4:00pm EDT -
Setting Up SBRT Program
February 4, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 12:30pm EDT -
Team Communication in SBRT
February 2, 2021 from 12:00pm EDT to 1:30pm EDT -
Setting Up SBRT Program
February 4, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 12:30pm EDT -
Setting Up SBRT Program
February 4, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 12:30pm EDT -
Setting Up SBRT Program
February 4, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 12:30pm EDT -
Introduction: Where We Are, Where We Have Been, and Where We Are Going
February 1, 2021 from 11:15am EDT to 12:45pm EDT -
Discussion (panel)
February 1, 2021 from 12:45pm EDT to 1:30pm EDT -
Setting Up SBRT Program
February 4, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 12:30pm EDT
Louise Bird
Patient Advisor
Louise Bird
Louise Bird
Patient Advisor
I am a twice over breast cancer survivor of 17 years (my last treatment date was July 4, 2004). When I was first diagnosed in December of 2002, I was 37 years old, working wife and mother of four children and Nana to one grandson. My children ranged in age from 19 to 13 years.
In 2011 I answered a ad for a Patient Representative to sit on CPQR, and as they say the rest is history and here we are today. Through my work on the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiation Therapy I gained my “Patient Voice’ and continue to use it each and every day. For me working on behalf of other Patients in Canada is a way of paying it forward and assisting to improve Patient Care for those undertaking the Journey!
I currently sit on a number of initiatives both Provincially and Nationally.
Maria Corsten, MSc, MCCPM, CHE
Medical Physicist
Maria Corsten, MSc, MCCPM, CHE
Maria Corsten, MSc, MCCPM, CHE
Medical Physicist
Maria Corsten is the Head of Medical Physics for the Provincial Cancer Care Program of Eastern Health in St. John’s, NL. She is a member of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine and is a Certified Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Leaders. Maria is co-leading the development of a new satellite site for cancer care in Corner Brook, NL. The Eastern Health Medical Physics team has implemented lung SBRT and is planning a prostate SBRT program. Maria’s clinical interests include radiation safety, peer review, expanding the implementation of SBRT and development of treatment planning efficiencies. She is a member of the organizing committee for COMP Winter School 2021, was the Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the COMP ASM in St. John’s and is a member of the organizing committee for the Annual Atlantic Radiotherapy Conference.
Derek Liu, PhD, MCCPM
Medical Physicist
Derek Liu, PhD, MCCPM
Derek Liu, PhD, MCCPM
Medical Physicist
Derek Liu is a board-certified Medical Physicist (as of 2017) at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency – Allan Blair Cancer Centre and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He received his MSc from McGill University and PhD from the University of Alberta. He completed his medical physics residency at the University of Toronto and Credit Valley Hospital.
Derek was the physicist in charge of implementing prostate SBRT as part of the NRG GU005 clinical trial, with the first trial patient treated in 2019. Currently, he is working with physicians in developing an institutional standard for weekly ultra-hypofractionated treatment for palliative prostate patients. His other clinical interests include 3D printed custom bolus and imaging for SRS.
His research interests include prostatic edema for permanent prostate brachytherapy and the application of deep learning neural networks for segmentation in high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy. He served on the AAPM international library sub-committee from 2013 to 2018.
Cheryl McGregor
RT(T), Dosimetrist
Cheryl McGregor
Cheryl McGregor
RT(T), Dosimetrist
Cheryl is a Dosimetrist working at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton since June of 2019 and is a current member of both the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT) and the Alberta College of Medical Diagnostic & Therapeutic Technologists (ACMDTT). Previously she worked for BC Cancer for 21 years with her last role there as a Planning Resource Therapist where she was highly involved in starting the stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) program at the Abbotsford Cancer Centre. She presented her experience in this endeavor at the Wescan (2011) and ASRT (2011) conferences. Cheryl has since written Respiratory Gating courses for both CAMRT and the ASRT as well as an SBRT course for the CAMRT. She currently sits on the CT Imaging Certificate committee for the CAMRT.
Cheryl joined the 2021 Winter School planning committee as the CAMRT representative and has had previous experience in conference planning for Wescan (2011) and CAMRT Annual Conference Radiation Therapy Program Moderator (2009). Cheryl graduated from Radiation Therapy program at the BC Cancer Agency in 1998 and further obtained her Advanced Certification in Radiation Therapy as well as her CT Imaging Certificate in Radiation Therapy (2008).
Devin Schellenberg, MD
Radiation Oncologist
Devin Schellenberg, MD
Devin Schellenberg, MD
Radiation Oncologist
Dr. Devin Schellenberg completed medical school and Residency at the University of BC and University of Toronto. He went onto a Fellowship at Stanford University and is currently the Department Head of Radiation Oncology at the BC Cancer Surrey Centre and the chair of the Lung Radiation Oncology working group with CCTG.
He treats Lung and Gastrointestinal malignancies and is a leader in the Provincial Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) program. His current research efforts focus on how radiation can be used to treat early lung and liver cancers, if radiation can alter the course of metastatic disease, and (outside of cancer) whether radiation is able to treat heart arrhythmias.