ESTRO 36 Programme book and exhibition guide

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Alan Effraim Nahum Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool, UK

Alan Effraim Nahum, born Manchester 1949, studied physics at Oxford University, UK. For his PhD (Edinburgh, 1975), supervised by John Greening, he wrote a photon-electron Monte-Carlo code, applied to the Fricke dosimeter and to ionisation chamber response. After three years’ school teaching he joined Hans Svensson at ‘Institutionen för Radiofysik’, Umeå, working on NACP dosimetry protocols; He had a three-month sabbatical at NRCC, Ottawa in 1983, working on simulating ion-chamber response with Dave Rogers and Alex Bielajew. 1985 - 2002 was spent at Institute of Cancer Research, UK. With advice from Gordon Steel he developed the ‘Marsden’ TCP model, incorporated into BIOPLAN by postdoc Beatriz Sanchez-Nieto to explore iso-NTCP tumour dose individualisation. PhD students Charlie Ma and Richard Knight applied Monte-Carlo simulation to kilovoltage x-ray dosimetry. Spells as ‘visiting scientist’ followed at Fox- Chase CC (Philadelphia), where he and Don Chapman challenged the ‘low prostate α/β’ hypothesis, at Reggio Emilia and Copenhagen. In 2004 he joined Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as Head of Physics Research, becoming ‘Visiting Professor’ at Liverpool University Physics Department. He co-edited with Philip Mayles and Jean-Claude Rosenwald, Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics – Theory and Practice in 2007. He created and organised the Clatterbridge Radiobiology course (later ESTRO-supported) 2006 - 2015. His postdoc Julien Uzan wrote BioSuite , for ‘isotoxic’ tumour-dose and fraction-number individualisation. He co-wrote with Don Chapman, Radiotherapy Treatment Planning - Linea r-Quadratic Radiobiology (CRC Press), in 2015. He retired in October 2015. He has co-authored with Pedro Andreo, David Burns, Jan Seuntjens and Frank Attix, Fundamentals of Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry , 2nd Edition (Wiley VCH), to appear in 2017.

Alan Effraim Nahum

Programme and Exhibition Guide | ESTRO AWARDS

29