Hadron Therapy Workshop: status and perspectives, plans for next generation facilities 18-19 October 2024

from Friday, October 18, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, October 19, 2024 (11:30 PM)
Zoom

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 18, 2024
Oct 19, 2024
AM
8:00 AM
SESSION 1 - HADRON THERAPY OVERVIEW (until 11:30 AM) ()
8:00 AM Participants registration   ()
8:45 AM Welcome Addresses   ()
9:15 AM Historic and scientific evolution of Hadron Therapy - Sandro Rossi (CNAO) Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))   ()
9:35 AM Hadron Therapy in clinical practice - Sara Lillo (CNAO)   ()
9:55 AM Radiobiology of Hadron Therapy - Angelica Facoetti (CNAO)   ()
10:15 AM HITRIplus project, its impact on boosting research in South East Europe and future perspectives - Sanja Damjanovic (SEEIIST Association (CH) / GSI)   ()
10:35 AM Building capacity through the IAEA programs - Sotirios Charisopoulos (IAEA)   ()
10:55 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
SESSION 2 – HADRON THERAPY DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES (until 3:00 PM) ()
11:30 AM Hadron Therapy : from pioneering times towards the future - Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford (GB))   ()
11:50 AM SEEIIST facility design and alternatives - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)   ()
12:10 PM CERN as an example of large scale infrastructure - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)   ()
12:30 PM Status and vision of the SEEIIST project - Leandar Litov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))   ()
12:50 PM Concluding remarks - Roberto Orecchia (IEO)   ()
1:00 PM Round table – SEEIIST towards to the Future   ()
1:45 PM --- Lunch Break ---
9:00 AM
Session 5 – INDICATIONS FOR HADRON THERAPY (until 11:30 AM) ()
9:00 AM Chordoma treatments at CNAO - Maria Rosaria Fiore (CNAO)   ()
9:25 AM Sarcoma treatments in Greece - Tasos Kyriazoglou (Attikon University Hospital)   ()
9:45 AM Radiosurgery for Skullbase Meningiom - Christos Boskos (ST. LUKE'S)   ()
10:05 AM SRS Treatment Planning for Endocranial Tumor - Anna Makridou   ()
10:25 AM Personalization of hadron therapy for radioresistant cancers through bioindicators of radioresistance or conditional vulnerability - Michael Story (Mayo Clinic)   ()
10:50 AM Concluding remarks - Arnold Pompos (UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX) Joao Seco (DKFZ)   ()
11:05 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
SESSION 6 – SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS RELATED TO HADRON THERAPY - Sandro Rossi (Fondazione CNAO) (until 3:00 PM) ()
11:30 AM Hadrontherapy and EU clinical networks: status and perspectives - Lisa Licitra (CNAO, Uni Milan)   ()
11:50 AM Costs of hadrontherapy, the ABC analysis applied to operations in CNAO - Maria Vittoria Livraga (CNAO)   ()
12:10 PM Caring for cancer patients: the CNAO social approach - Silvia Meneghello (CNAO)   ()
12:30 PM The role of citizens in innovating health - Katerina Zourou (Web2Learn) Stefania Oikonomou (Web2Learn)   ()
12:45 PM The role of biomedical and clinical engineering societies in advancing and promoting Hadron Therapy on a national and international level - Alkinoos Athanasiou (AUTH, ELEVIT)   ()
1:00 PM Challenges and Opportunities in the Patient's Pathway to Access - Menia Koukougianni (NGO KARKINAKI)   ()
1:20 PM Empowering patient advocacy and cancer prevention - Panagiotis Bamidis (AUTH/AHEPA, ELEVIT)   ()
1:35 PM Concluding remarks - Sandro Rossi (CNAO)   ()
1:40 PM --- Lunch Break ---
PM
3:00 PM
SESSION 3 – EXPERIENCES OF MULTIPARTICLE THERAPY FACILITIES IN OPERATION IN EUROPE (until 5:00 PM) ()
3:00 PM Hadron Therapy at GSI - where we come from, where we go - Konrad Lehmann (GSI)   ()
3:25 PM The HIT facility, technology, clinical applications and research: novel approaches in particle therapy - Andrea Mairani (HIT)   ()
3:50 PM The Krakow Hadron Therapy facility, lessons learnt - Pawel Olko (IFJ - PAN)   ()
4:15 PM Concluding remarks - Angelica Facoetti (CNAO)   ()
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:00 PM
SESSION 4 – ADVANCES IN ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGIES FOR HADRON THERAPY FACILITIES (until 10:20 PM) ()
5:00 PM Accelerator and beam physics developments for medical and societal applications at CERN - Alessandra Lombardi (CERN)   ()
5:20 PM Innovative gantry designs: Superconducting magnets for advanced gantry - Ernesto De Matteis (INFN)   ()
5:35 PM Innovative gantry designs-continued - Ariel Haziot (CERN)   ()
5:50 PM Optimisation for pre-injectors for hadron therapy-AM - Aristeidis Mamaras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / CERN)   ()
6:10 PM An ion source project as a seed to build capacity for next generation accelerator physicists in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina - Medina Dugonjic (UNSA) Naida Ustavdic (UNSA) Danis Bradaric (UNSA) Amer Ajanovic (CERN/UNSA)   ()
6:25 PM Development of the first table-top X-ray FLASH system - Joao Seco (DKFZ) Ms ELPIDA THEODORIDOU (DKFZ / Uni Malta)   ()
6:40 PM Concluding remarks - Laura Vallow (Mayo Clinic)   ()
8:00 PM Welcome, Music event and Welcome Drink   ()
3:00 PM
SESSION 7 – PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY AND ROLE OF HADRON THERAPY (until 6:45 PM) ()
3:00 PM Carbon Programme in MedAustron - Piero Fossati (MedAustron)   ()
3:15 PM Pediatric Treatments in MedAustron - Carola Lütgendorf-Caucig (MedAustron)   ()
3:30 PM Hadron therapy state-of-the art in pediatric oncology-clinical aspects - Sabina Vennarini (CNAO)   ()
3:45 PM Treatment planning for pediatric cancer tumour treatments - Alfredo Mirandola (CNAO)   ()
4:00 PM Pediatric brain tumour surgery : where do we stand? - Nikos Foroglou (AUTH/AHEPA)   ()
4:15 PM Role of surgery in pediatric soft tissue sarcoma - Aikaterini Tzantzaroudi (Hippokration Hospital)   ()
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:00 PM Panel discussion: Paediatric Oncology in Greece   ()
5:01 PM Clinical profile of pediatric oncology patients managed and treated in Pediatric Haematology and/or Oncology Unit University Hospital AHEPA - Emmanouel Chatzipantelis (AUTH/AHEPA)   ()
5:15 PM Clinical profile of pediatric oncology patients managed and treated in Pediatric Haematology and/or Oncology Unit Hospital Hippoktateio Hospital - Evgenia Papakonstantinou (Hippokrateio Hospital)   ()
5:30 PM Pediatric patients commonly referred for external beam Radiotherapy - Eftychia Tataridou (Theageneio Hospital) Antonio Capizzello (AUTH / AHEPA)   ()
5:45 PM The spectrum of pediatric patients referred for Protontherapy - Barbara Rombi (APSS - TRENTO)   ()
6:00 PM Radiation treatment plan for pediatric cancer: a clinical view - George Giakoumetis (AUTH/AHEPA)   ()
6:15 PM Concluding remarks - Semi Harrabi (HIT)   ()