ESTRO 35 Programme book

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

MARY COFFEY TCD School of Radiation Therapy St James’s Hospital Dublin, Ireland

Mary spent her working life improving the quality of care given to cancer patients through high-level education for Radiation Therapists (RTTs) and raising safety awareness. She led the development of the degree programme in Radiation Therapy in Ireland and was head of the Division of Radiation Therapy in Trinity College Dublin until 2012. She was chairperson of the project groups responsible for the development of ESTRO European curriculum for RTTs, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Handbook for the Education of Radiation Therapists and the ESTRO Benchmarking document for RTTs. She is chair of the ESTRO project Best Practice in Radiation Oncology: a Project to Train RTT Trainers now in its eighth year. She has been active in health economics having been a member of the expert group reporting on radiotherapy services in Ireland which resulted in a major development of radiotherapy services in the country, a member of the IAEA group on staffing and currently a member of the ESTRO Health Economics in Radiation Oncology (HERO) group. She has been interested in risk management and safety in radiother- apy for many years, is a founder member of the Radiation Oncology Safety Information System (ROSIS) aimed at sharing information on incidents and near incidents, and is the current chair of the Radiation Oncology Safety Committee. Mary established the RTT committees of the EORTC and ESTRO and is still active in the ESTRO RTT committee. She is a member of the ESTRO Board.

Mary Coffey

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