ESTRO 36 Programme book and exhibition guide

JENS OVERGAARD LEGACY AWARD

Pierre Blanchard Institut Gustave Roussy Villejuif, France

Dr Blanchard is a member of the faculty at Gustave Roussy Cancer Centre, France. He has developed a strong clinical background in the field of head and neck radiotherapy, genitourinary radiotherapy and brachytherapy as well as proton therapy and quality of life studies. In parallel to his medical training, he performed a PhD in Public Health on biostatistics and individual patient data meta-analyses. He is frequently invited for talks on statistics and methodology applied to clinical research. He is currently the clinical manager of the head and neck meta-analyses performed at Gustave Roussy (more than 150 trials, four individual patients meta-analysis, a consortium of more than 15 institutions). He is very active within the internationally recognised head and neck research groups GORTEC (head and neck oncology) and GETUG (urologic oncology). He is the co-primary investigator of an international phase III trial on pelvic lymph node radiotherapy in high risk prostate cancer. Dr Blanchard also serves as faculty for different courses organised at Gustave Roussy and is currently responsible for a national teaching course on head and neck radiotherapy. He has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He also serves as reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Oncology , Radiotherapy and Oncology , and the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics . He is currently a visiting Faculty at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and has recently been appointed as co-Editor-in-Chief of Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology , one of ESTRO’s newly launched open access journals.

Pierre Blanchard

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