ESTRO 36 Programme book and exhibition guide

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Jack L.M. Venselaar Instituut Verbeeten, Dept of Clinical Physics Tilburg, The Netherlands

Dr Jack Venselaar received his PhD in 2000 at Leiden University in The Netherlands on the topic of accuracy requirements of external beam therapy treatment planning. He is a senior specialist medical physicist, appointed in 1979, in the department of Medical Physics & Engineering of Instituut Verbeeten, Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has experience in the field of radiotherapy and brachytherapy physics, radiation protection and hyperthermia. He has pursued research in the field of dosimetry, quality assurance and technology of brachytherapy since the 80s. His contributions to brachytherapy physics and technology include dosimetry of high-activity sources, development and establishment of dosimetry protocols, advanced quality control procedures and systems, development of quality audit systems, and brachytherapy radiation protection data. He was a board member of The Netherlands Commission of Radiation Dosimetry (NCS) and participated in several of the NCS committees including one chair position. From 2001 to 2008 he chaired the Brachytherapy Physics Quality Systems (BRAPHYQS) group of GEC-ESTRO. Dr Venselaar also acted as a liaison between the GEC-ESTRO Committee of ESTRO and the AAPM Brachytherapy Subcommittee and the ABS Physics Committee. He was the national coordinator of the Patterns of Care in Brachytherapy study project of GEC-ESTRO. He furthermore was a consultant on several assignments for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for both teaching and advisory activities. In 2013 he co-authored a book published by CRC Taylor & Francis on Comprehensive Brachytherapy, Physical and Clinical Aspects (Venselaar JLM, Baltas D, Meigooni AS, and Hoskin PJ, Eds.). From 2001-2009 he taught on brachytherapy physics lectures on the international ESTRO teaching course on Modern Brachytherapy Techniques. Together with Prof Dimos Baltas from Offenbach, he shared the course directorship of the first and successful ESTRO teaching course on Advanced Brachytherapy Physics which was held in Brussels in May 2014.

Jack LM Venselaar

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