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Accelerating the future: Designing a Robust and Affordable Radiation Therapy Treatment System for Challenging Environments

from Wednesday 20 March 2019 (09:00) to Friday 22 March 2019 (18:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Mar 2019
21 Mar 2019
22 Mar 2019
AM
08:00 --- Coffee and Refreshments ---
08:30 Tour of three facilities and their respective oncology departments.  
08:00
Session 7 - Manjit Dosanjh (CERN) Ajay Aggarwal (until 09:30)
08:00 Convening panel  
09:30 --- Coffee and Refreshments ---
10:00
Session 6 - Hellen Makwani Walter Wuensch (CERN) (until 11:30)
10:00 Presentation 1: Ghana - Emmanuel Frempong  
10:30 Presentation 2: Nigeria - Simeon Chinedu Aruah  
11:00 Presentation 3: Nepal - Abish Adhikari (Nepal)  
11:30
Session 8 - Faical Azaiez Paul Collier (CERN) (until 13:30)
11:30 R&D Areas missing in the present portfolio plus prototyping/testing - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (Daresbuy Laboratory)  
11:50 Integration and Industrial Engineering considerations - Guido Herrmann  
12:10 Possible additional sources of financial support - Daniel Adams  
12:30 Developing a common approach to Intellectual Property & Collaboration  
PM
13:00
Session 1 - Charlotte Jamieson Surbhi Grover (University of Pennsylvania) (until 13:45)
13:00 Welcome to Botswana - Dr DPS MOH Dr Morrison Sinvula Prof. Prof. Doreen Masire ((Acting Dean))  
13:15 Introduction by CERN, ICEC and STFC (How we got here – the three prior workshops and Objectives of this Workshop) - Charlotte Jamieson C Norman Coleman Paul Collier (CERN)  
13:30 Radiation Therapy Treatment Techniques and Treatment Planning Systems - Jake Van Dyk  
13:45
Session 2 - Tlotlo Ralefala (Radiation Oncologist, Princess Marina Hospital) Ajay Aggarwal (until 16:30)
13:45 Medical physicists - Remi Makufa  
14:00 Medical physicist - Taofeeq Ige  
14:15 Radiographer or radiotherapy technician - Linnet Nhari  
14:30 Radiation Oncologist - Memory Nsingo  
14:45 Radiation Oncologist - Hellen Makwani  
15:00 Summary of the key challenges from previous global survey - Jamal Khader  
15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:45 Open Discussion: : Opportunity for other ODA participants to contribute and a recapitulation of the challenges and potential solutions  
16:30
Session 3 - Taofeeq Ige Manjit Dosanjh (CERN) (until 18:00)
16:30 Overview of the “Novel LINAC/RTT Initiative and how it is trying to address the specific challenges raised by ODA and questionnaire - C Norman Coleman  
16:50 Outlining the main outputs after the original meetings and how we are seeking to address particular challenges - Peter Mcintosh  
17:10 Opportunities to Improve the Performance of RTT Systems with New Technologies - Marco Carlone  
17:30 Open Discussion  
19:00 --- Reception: Avani Resort & Casino ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
12:55
Session 4 - Peter Mcintosh Jake Van Dyk Hubert Foy (until 15:45)
12:55 Introduction - Hubert Foy Peter Mcintosh Jake Van Dyk  
13:00 Overview of STFC-funded projects - Charlotte Jamieson  
13:15 RTT System Overview: From Source to Patient - Jake Van Dyk  
13:30 Electron Gun for Radiotherapy Treatment (RTT) System - Deepa ANGAL-KALININ (STFC)  
13:45 New RF accelerating structures and dynamics for radiotherapy in challenging environments - Graeme Campbell Burt (Lancaster University (GB))  
14:00 RF Sources - Ivan Konoplev (University of Oxford)  
14:15 Current and future directions in the dosimetry and real-time verification of intensity modulated radiotherapy - Richard Hugtenburg (S)  
14:30 Beam delivery - Adam Steinberg  
14:45 Cloud technology as a mechanism for radiotherapy peer review - Ajay Aggarwal  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:20 Future direction, priorities, development plans - open discussion  
15:45
Session 5 - C Norman Coleman TBC - Uwe Oelfke (until 17:00)
15:45 Chartrounds: An Established Mentoring Network that Works - surbhi grover (University of Pennsylvania)  
16:00 Installation of radiotherapy systems in smaller hospitals in rural settings and the operational challenges this brings - Marco Carlone  
16:15 Addressing the Need for Medical Physics Education - Jake Van Dyk  
16:30 Establishing a national medical physics training programme in Zimbabwe - Godfrey Azangwe  
16:45 Proposal for Technical Support for Radiotherapy in West African Countries - Hubert Foy  
17:00 Failure Mode Studies: Using Data to Identify and Solve Problems: Major Subsystems of Current Medical Linear Accelerators and their shortfalls - Remi Makufa Laurence Matthew Wroe (University of Oxford (GB))  
19:00 --- Reception: Avani Resort & Casino ---
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session 9 (until 16:30)
14:30 The importance of networking and future projects - Peter Mcintosh Suzie Sheehy (University of Oxford and STFC/ASTeC/RAL)  
15:00 ICEC Perspective: How the effort embodied by this workshop will improve the care of patients with cancer in UICs as well as LMICs - C Norman Coleman  
15:20 Next Steps from STFC’s perspective - Charlotte Jamieson  
15:40 Open Discussion  
16:20 Concluding Remarks and Adjournment - Charlotte Jamieson C Norman Coleman Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)  
16:30 --- Coffee and Networking ---
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