The Christie charity
The course is deliberately aimed at a wide audience including radiographers, medical physicists, clinicians and those from a more academic environment who wish to learn more about the subject.
- Proton Therapy
- Imaging and Adaptive Radiotherapy
- SABR
- Big Data
The Christie Advanced Radiotherapy Summer School 2023
Tuesday 27 June 2023
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 12:45 | Registration |
| 13:00- 13:45 | Session 1: What have we learnt? |
| 13:00 | All you need to know about the bragg peak but were afraid to ask |
| 13:45 | Learning from our clinical practice: clinical case examples |
14:45 - break
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 15:00-16:00 | Session 2: what are we discovering? |
| 15:00 | Whate we discovering in clinical trials? |
| 15:20 | What are we discovering in clinical practice? |
| 15:40 | What are we discovering in the research room? |
| 16:00-16:45 | Session 3: Where next? |
| 16:00 | Proton Therapy in 2025: FLASH vs Proton- Arc vs LET- optimised planning |
16:45 - close of day
Wednesday 28 June 2023
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 09:10 | MR-guided RT Prof Peter Hoskin, Professor in Clinical Oncology, University of Manchester |
| 09:30 | Optimising MR for Radiotherapy |
| 09:50 | Clinical applications of functional MR |
| 10:10 | Integrating MR in to the radiotherapy workflow |
| 10:30 | Orphans at Risk- do we know what we are talking about? Dr Romaana Mir, Consultant Clincial Oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre |
10:50 - break
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 11:10 | Can radiotherapy be carbon neutral? Dr Rob Chuter, Principal Clincial Scientist, The Christie NHS FT |
| 11:30 | Debate: Mr Guided RT vs Protons |
12:30 - lunch
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 13:30 | Chairperson's welcome Julia Handley, The Christie NHS FT |
| 13:40 | SABR- what's next? |
| 14:10 | Workshop A: SABR abdominal SABR case based discussion |
| 14:10 | Workshop B: SRS- cranial case based discussion |
15:10 - break
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 15:30 | Re-irradiation |
| 15:55 | Cardiac SABR Dr Jim Daniel, Head of Treatment Planning, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| 16:15 | Cyber knife vs linac for SABR Dr Geoff Heyes, Head of Radiotherapy Treatment Planning, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT |
Thursday 29 June 2023
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:45 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09:15 | Chairperson's welcome |
| 09:30 | Casual inference Dr Matthew Sperrin, Senior Lecturer in Health Data Science |
| 10:00 | Autocontouring |
| 10:30 | Modelling |
| 11:00 | How to learn from every patient |
11:30 - break
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 11:50 | AI for beginners Dr Eliana Vasquezosirio, Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester |
| 12:20 | Wearable tech to optimise cancer care Michael Merchant, Lecturer in Proton Therapy Physics, University of Manchester |
| 12:50 | Debate- AI can replace humans in radiotherapy, we just won't let it Dr Kate Haslett, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Christie NHS FT Prof Marcel van Herk, Chair in Radiotherapy Physics, University of Manchester Matt Lowe, Principal Clinical Scientist, The Christie NHS FT |
13:35 - break
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