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2008 Annual Meeting

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Masters in Radiation Oncology

Track : PAN

Program Code: PAN16

Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Time: 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM EST

Duration: 2780 Minutes

Location: 253

SPEAKER(S):

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Thomas Delaney, M.D., Medical Directory, F. H. Burr Proton Therapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

I am currently the Medical Director of the Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston. I am also the Co-Director of the Sarcoma Center at the hospital, and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School. My primary areas of clinical and research interest include bone and soft tissue sarcomas and charged-particle (proton) radiation therapy. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, in the metropolitan New York City area. I obtained my B.A. degree in history at Harvard College in 1978 and my medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1982. After completing an internship at the Yale-New Haven Hospital in general surgery, I completed three years of residency training at MGH in Radiation Oncology, completing training in 1986. I then spent six years as a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda MD, where I participated in studies evaluating the treatment of adult and pediatric sarcomas and translational research in photodynamic therapy with light-activated dyes. I returned to Boston in 1992 to become Chief of Radiation Oncology at Boston University Medical Center, where I also established a joint Radiation Oncology residency program in conjunction with MGH. I returned to MGH to head the Sarcoma Service in the Department of Radiation Oncology in 2000, and became medical director of the Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center in 2001. Hanne Kooy, Ph.D. and I are editors of the book Proton and Heavier Charged Particle Radiotherapy (Lippincott, 2007). I am on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and the Journal of Surgical Oncology. I am principal investigator of an NCI-funded program project grant, Optimizing Proton Radiation Therapy. My interests outside of work include family (wife Linda, sons Alec, 16 and Ian, 13), tennis and ice hockey, jogging, and the alto saxophone.

Patricia Eifel, Professor of Radiation Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Eli Glatstein, University of Pennsylvania

Mary Gospodarowicz, Professor, Princess Margaret Hospital

Louis Harrison, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals, the Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Louis B. Harrison, MD, FASTRO, serves as the Clinical Director of Continuum Cancer Centers of New York as well as the Gerald J. Friedman Chair of Radiation Oncology at Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Lukes and Roosevelt Hospitals in New York. Continuum Cancer Centers is the combined programs of Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Lukes and Roosevelt Hospitals, and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Harrison is an internationally recognized and extensively published expert in the areas of head and neck cancer, sarcomas, and intraoperative brachytherapy. He has been a leader in the development of multidisciplinary management strategies that prioritize cancer cure with organ and function preservation. He is co-editor of the award winning textbook Head and Neck Cancer, A Multidisciplinary Approach, now in its third edition. Dr. Harrison is Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Harrison received his M.D. degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1982 (Alpha Omega Alpha) and completed his residency training in Radiation Oncology at Yale in 1986. He has served ASTRO (American Society for Radiation Oncology) as President-Elect (2006), President (2007), Chairman of the Board (2008) and Immediate Past Chairman of the Board (2009). ASTRO is the largest professional society for radiation oncology in the world, and one of the leading professional cancer societies in the United States. In addition, he is a Past President of the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) and the International Society of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (ISIORT), as well as an active member of the American Head and Neck Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Dr. Harrison has been the recipient of the Clarence Dennis Society Prize for Surgical Scholarship, the Louise and Allston Boyer Award for Biomedical Research, the Ulrich Henschke Lecture Award for Brachytherapy, and the Distinguished Alumni Awards from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine as well as Poly Prep Country Day School.

Bruce Minsky, Associate Dean and Chief Quality Officer, University of Chicago Medical Center

Ramesh Rengan, M.D., Ph.D, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

LEARNER OUTCOMES:

Discuss clinical situations in which it is not only possible but actually desirable to deviate from the standard evidence-based treatment plans.