ESTRO 35 Programme book

EMMANUEL VAN DER SCHUEREN AWARD

ANN BARRETT University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Ann started her radiotherapy career in London and worked with Professor Michael Peckham at the time when he and Emmanuel van der Schueren set up ESTRO. She fostered her European links when she worked with Ms.Bataini, Laugier and Gerbaulet in Paris. She then returned to the Royal Marsden Hospital where she worked until 1986 with a practice in lymphoma, testicular, breast and paediatric cancers. She also developed a TBI schedule with a purpose built machine for the new technique of BMT. She then accepted a position as a Foundation chair in Glasgow, the second largest cancer centre in the UK, where she remained for 16 years with a national sarcoma practice and a laboratory programme with Tom Wheldon in targeted radiotherapy before moving to Norwich as Deputy Dean of a new medical school. She is co-author of Practical Radiotherapy Planning , now in its fifth edition, Cancer in Children , several Oxford oncology books and more than 150 publications. She was a long term member of the Education and Training Com- mittee of ESTRO and President of ESTRO in 1997. In the UK she was President of the Scottish Radiological Society in 1996, Dean of the Royal College of Radiologists from 2002 to 2004, and a member of many committees including those involved in the CHART and START trials. She has held travelling professorships in Australasia and Canada. She is Emeritus Professor of Oncology and has acted as an advisor to the UK government on radiotherapy and NATO on the acute effects of radiation.

Ann Barrett

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