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I'm Dr. Miriam Joy Calaguas, a practicing Radiation Oncologist from the Philippines. I work in both government and private radiotherapy facilites. Aside from doing conventional radiotherapy, my practice includes doing 3DCRT and IMRT.I also handle HDR brachytherapy for gyne, lung, prostate, and nasopharynx. I do stereotactic radiosurgery using both gamma knife and linac-based SRS. Presently I am the chairperson of the Dept. of Radiation Oncology at St. Luke's Medical Center. I hold the academic rank of associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. My international involvements include being the National Project Coordinator in Radiotherapy since 1997 for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) based in Vienna and being the National Project Leader in Radiation Oncology since 1991 for the Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA) based in Japan. I am Vice-President and a founding member of the Southeast Asia Radiation Oncology Group (SEAROG), Board Member of the Philippine Radiation Oncology Society (PROS) and member of the Institutional Review Board of the St. Luke's Medical Center. My past positions include being the first chairman of the Dept. of Radiotherapy, Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center (1987-1996), head of the Dept. of Radiology of the Lung Center of the Philippines (1991-2002). I was President of the Philippine Society of Oncology (2002). I served as Board Examiner for the Philippine Board of Radiology (Radiotherapy) in 1995-97. I was a member of the Advisory Council of the Philippine Cancer Control Program in 1987-1993. I became Course Director of two regional training courses (RTC) of the IAEA in Quality Assurance (1999) and Current Trends and Future Directions in Radiation Oncology (2006). The awards I have received include Distinguish Service Award (2002) and Outstanding Teacher in Oncology Award (2007) given by the Philippine Society of Oncology. I am bringing to the Developing Countries Course my experiences with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Coordinated Research Projects (CRP's) and Regional Training Courses (RTC). One of the RTC's I handled as Course Director was held in Manila, in 2006. This was successfully conducted in close collaboration with the ASTRO faculty led by Dr. William Shipley through the International Relations Committee of the ASTRO. This was to be the first meeting to be launched by ASTRO in its plan to conduct regular educational courses on managing common cancers in emerging countries. The sucessful combined efforts of the ASTRO, IAEA and the PROS in conducting these educational course was very much appreciated by the participants. It was the consensus in that meeting that these educational courses led by the ASTRO faculty must continue to be conducted in other parts of the region regularly.

Chair, International Relations Committee, ASTRO, 2004-8. Previous President, International Society of Radiation Oncology, 2001-4.

� General Director - Instituto de Oncologia �Angel H. Roffo� in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 2007-University of Buenos Aires � Staff professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires Department of Radiology since 1981 � Head of the postgraduate programs in Radiation Oncology and Diagnostic Radiology at the Instituto de Oncologia �Angel H. Roffo� since 1992 � Head of the postgraduate course in Radiation Therapy at the Roffo Academic Unit since 1994 � Head of the pregraduate course in Radiology at the Roffo Hospital Unit since 1988 � Assistant professor at the Universidad Catolica in its clinical oncology postgraduate program since 1999 � OIEA (International Organization on Atomic Energy) project expert � GLAC (Latin American Curietherapy Group) president � Winner of 12 awards � Co-author of 9 chapters in various books � Author of 92 different papers � Member of 9 international societies (acting as president in one and vicepresident in another) � Member of 8 national societies (acting as president in two of them and vicepresident in another) � Participant in 320 distinct congresses

William U. Shipley, M.D., F.A.C.R., completed his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1966. After internship and 2 years of surgical residency at the Massachusetts Genera Hospital, he trained in Radiation Oncology at the Harvard Joint Center and then was in London for one year on the HMS Moseley Fellowship. He currently is the Andres Soriano Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Harvard Medical School and the Head of Genito-Urinary Oncology in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After joining the staff at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1974, Dr. Shipley became a leader in clinical research in the area of genitourinary oncology evaluating multi-modality cancer care. He entered into a very special cooperation with his MGH colleagues in urology, in medical oncology, in radiation oncology and in pathology resulting in the implementation of seven successive national protocols for muscle-invading bladder cancer patients using a multi-modality approach which allowed over two thirds of those patients so-treated to escape without receiving radical bladder-removing surgery. In prostate cancer Professor Shipley helped develop and lead 10 randomized clinical trials using radiation therapy evaluating the advantages of high dose proton beam irradiation and evaluating in the National Radiation Group, the RTOG, the benefits of combining androgen deprivation with radiation in men with localized prostatic cancer. Professor Shipley, who holds many national and international leadership positions on committees and consensus panels in genitourinary oncology, has also chaired the American Society for Radiation Therapy and Oncology committee that has developed International educational courses with the local radiation oncology societies of emerging countries.