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MARCO VAN VULPEN University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dr van Vulpen obtained his MD at the University of Amsterdam and his PhD at the University of Utrecht, both in The Netherlands. After graduation as a radiation oncologist he pursued a fellowship at the Cross Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he participated in the Image- guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (IGART) program within the Center for Biological Imaging and Adaptive Radiotherapy. In 2011 he was appointed full Professor and held his inaugural speech entitled “the End of Radiotherapy”. Since 2013 he has been chair of the Department of Radiotherapy at the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is clinical chair of the Center of Image Guided Oncological Interventions at the Universitair Medisch Centrum (UMC) Utrecht, where a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) linear accelerator is being developed. He is clinical chair of the International Consortium, ATLANTIC, on the worldwide clinical introduction of the MRI linear accelerator. He currently serves as adjunct professor and faculty member at the Department of Radiotherapy at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. His major research interests include the development and clinical introduction of different adaptive MRI guided oncological interventions. He has published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Marco Van Vulpen

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