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Strike action between Monday 2 October to Thursday 5 October 2023

Consultants and junior doctors at The Christie will both strike between 7am on Monday 2 October to 7am on Thursday 5 October 2023. Both consultants and junior doctors will still provide emergency care during their strikes.

We are proactively contacting patients with appointments that may be affected by this strike. If you have an appointment at the Trust on any of these dates, please continue to come to The Christie and our other centres as planned unless we contact you to tell you otherwise. There may be longer waits than usual in clinics during this time.

Please do not call to check if your appointment is still going ahead.

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The Christie Advanced Radiotherapy Summer School 2023

Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023

A fantastic opportunity to learn at this interactive radiotherapy summer school. The programme includes a wide variety of plenary sessions, workshops, debates across 4 areas of protons, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), imaging and adaptive radiotherapy as well as Big Data.

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?
Professor Karen Kirkby, Chair in Proton Therapy Physics, University of Manchester
13:00 All you need to know about the bragg peak but were afraid to ask 
Mr Matthew Clarke, Consultant clinical scientist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
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 What we discovering in clinical trials?
Dr Matt Lowe, Principal clinical scientist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
15:20 HPB clinical trials in PBT - the UK perspective
Dr Ganesh Radhakrishna, Consultant clinical oncologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
15:40 What are we discovering in the research room?
Dr John Warmenhoven, The University of Manchester
Dr Nicholas Henthorn, The University of Manchester
16:00-16:45 Session 3: Where next?
Professor Ran Mckay, Director of Medical Physics and Engineering, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
16:00 Proton Therapy in 2025: FLASH vs Proton- Arc vs LET- optimised planning 
Dr Mike Merchant, Lecturer in Proton Therapy Phsyics, University of Manchester

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 
Michael Dubec, Principal clinical scientist (MRI), The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
09:50 Clinical applications of functional MR 
Dr Cynthia Eccles, Consultant research radiographer, Head of radiotherapy developments, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
10:10 Integrating MR in to the radiotherapy workflow 
Linnea Freear, Principal clinical scientist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
10:30 Organs at Risk- do we know what we are talking about?
Dr Romaana Mir, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre 

10:50 - break

Time Session
11:10 Can radiotherapy be carbon neutral?
Dr Rob Chuter, Principal Clinical Scientist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust 
11:30 Debate: MR Guided RT vs Protons 
Frank Brewster, Clinical Scientist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Cynthia Eccles, Consultant Research Radiographer, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Claire Neldder, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

12:30 - lunch

Time Session
13:30 Chairperson's welcome
Julia Handley, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
13:40 SABR- what's next?
Dr Andrew Brocklehurst, Clinical Oncology SABR Fellow, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
14:10 Workshop A: SABR abdominal SABR case based discussion 
Dr Andrew Brocklehurst, Clinical Oncology SABR Fellow, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Rachael Hall, Principal Clinical Scientist/SABR Physics Lead, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
14:10 Workshop B: SRS- cranial case based discussion 
Dr Jenny King, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Daniel Welsh, Principal Clinical Scientist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Geoff Heyes, Head of Radiotherapy Treatment Planning, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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 Foundation Trust

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
Dr Marianne Aznar, Senior Lecturer in Radiotherapy Physics, University of Manchester
11:00 How to learn from every patient 
Dr Alan Mcwillliam, Senior Lecturer in Translational Radiotherapy, University of Manchester

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 Foundation Trust
Prof Marcel van Herk, Chair in Radiotherapy Physics, University of Manchester
Matt Lowe, Principal Clinical Scientist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

13:35 - break

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Last updated: July 2023