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Awardees’ biographies

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Annette Bøjen Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital Aarhus, Denmark

Annette Bøjen was educated as a registered nurse and radiation therapist. She is the Head of the Learning Centre at Aarhus University Hospital and has been leader of the Radiation Therapist Education Programme in the Western part of Denmark since the beginning of 2000. From the onset of working in the field of radiation therapy, her main interest has been dedicated to secure the best quality of treatment performed by well-educated radiation therapists (RTTs). She was active in the establishment of a formal national education programme for RTTs. Annette Bøjen participated in the second (2002) and third (2011) revision of the ESTRO RTT core curriculum. She has been a member of the RTT Committee since 2012 and the Scientific Programme Committee of the annual ESTRO meetings for the past three years. In a newly started RTT collaboration with the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologies (CAMRT), Annette is co-chairing the first project. She is the RTT Committee’s representative in the National Society Committee and is an editorial board member on the ESTRO open access journal TipsRO (Technical Innovations & patient Support in Radiation Oncology). Aarhus University Hospital was the first institution to implement the use of a 3D virtual reality (VR) environment in radiation therapy learning. Annette Bøjen is responsible for the ongoing progress with the Danish-UK collaboration and integration of VR in the education of all professions. She has developed and organised several systematic learning programmes such as research methodology for RTTs and qualifying of RTTs to manage daily online IGRT and ART in large scale. She has also contributed to scientific papers and Danish text books.

Annette Bøjen

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