Annual report 2017

AWARDS GRANTED AT ESTRO 36

Lifetime achievement awards Annette bøjen (Denmark) Alan Nahum (UK) Jens Overgaard (Denmark) Hans-Peter Rodemann (Germany) Paul Van Houtte (Belgium) ESTRO award lectures Emmanuel van der Schueren Award Lecture Substantial and ‘ for free’ improvement of radiotherapy practice in high and low income countries Ben Heijmen (The Netherlands) Iridium Award Brachytherapy physics developments: look back in anger, grateful, and with hope Jack Venselaar (The Netherlands) Jens Overgaard Legacy Award Individual patient data meta- analysis in head and neck cancer: an international and multidisciplinary collaboration Pierre Blanchard (France) Jean Bourhis (Switzerland) Jean-Pierre Pignon (France) Regaud Award More than a century after the serendipitous discovery of X-rays, there is still a bright future for radiation oncology… Jean Bourhis (Switzerland)

Honorary physics award Cognitive perspective in the radiation oncology physics domain Vincenzo Valentini (Italy)

Donal Hollywood Award In vitro prediction of DNA repair defects reveals association with poor clinical outcome in HNSCC Paul Essers (The Netherlands) Klaas Breur Award The 5 R(elevant) principles of radiotherapy in multimodal cancer treatment Claus Rödel (Germany) Academic award Jack Fowler University of Wisconsin Award Dosimetric quantification of the ‘true’ ano-inguinal lymphatic drainage of anal cancer patients Hendrik Dapper (Germany) Honorary member award lectures Optimising the treatment of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer: the difficult journey back Brian O’Sullivan (Canada) Potential of radiation therapy to convert the tumor into an in situ vaccine Silvia Formenti (USA) Quality improvement in radiotherapy: history, significance and impact of dosimetry audits Joanna Jzewska (Austria)

Company award lectures

ESTRO-Varian Award Tarjectory Optimization in Radiotherapy Using Sectioning (TORUS) Christopher Locke (USA) ESTRO-Accuray Award Limited interfractional variability of respiration- induced tumor motion in esophageal cancer RT Peng Jin (The Netherlands) ESTRO-Elekta Brachytherapy Award Testting and MR-compatible afterloader for MR-based source tracking in MRI-guided HDR brachytherapy Ellis Beld (The Netherlands) GEC-ESTRO Best Junior Presentation Elekta Award Sponsored by Elekta Brachytherapy

Improved class solutions for prostate brachytherapy planning via evolutionary machine learning Stefanus Maree (The Netherlands)

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