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Lifetime Achievement Award

Christian Carrie Centre Leon Berard Lyon, France

Christian Carrie started medical school in 1983 in Lyon and experienced some hesitation in choosing between hematology paediatrics and radiation oncology. After having met Professeur Jean Pierre Gerard he finally decided to become Radiation oncologist and became fellow at the Centre Leon Berard, Lyon, in 1987. He was appointed full assistant professor in 1989 at Centre Leon Berard and got involved in paediatric radiation oncology, lung and genitourinary cancer. He was elected head of the Department of radiation therapy at Centre Leon Berard in 1993 at the age of 35 years. He also served as Director of technical facilities from1999 to 2009 and deputy Director from 2009 to 2014 at the Centre Leon Berard and is its director’s counsellor to date. Christian initiated the quality control for medulloblastoma treatment in 1993 first at national level first and later at a European level for the European SIOP (International Society of Paediatric Oncology) protocols.

He was one of the founders of PROS (Paediatric Radiation Oncology Society) in 2004 and president of PROS from2005 to 2010; member of SIOP scientific committee since 2006; joined the ESTRO board from 2007 to 2010; and was president of the French paediatric radiotherapy group from 2016 to 2017 . Christian is 61 years old, married for 38 years, father of two boys and grandfather of one boy. He loves sailing, gardening, travelling and sport.

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