Emerging Technologies in Radiation Therapy:
Impact on the Community Practice Medical Physicist

An Educational Symposium for the Clinical Medical Physicist

Richard Popple, Course Director

March 26-28, 2008

Doubletree Hotel

Birmingham, Alabama

Sponsored by the

Southeast Chapter of the

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

(SEAAPM)

Symposium Faculty

Jean-Pierre Bissonnette, PhD Senior Physicist Princess Margaret Hospital Toronto , Ontario	Jon J. Kruse, PhD Medical Physicist Mayo Clinic Rochester , Minnesota
J. Daniel Bourland, PhD, FAAPM Associate Professor Wake Forest University Winston Salem, North Carolina	Joe O'Donoghue, PhD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, New York
Indrin J. Chetty, PhD Director, Physics Division Henry Ford Health System Detroit , Michigan	Moyed Miften, Ph.D. Chief, Medical Physics Section Allegheny General Hospital Associate Professor Drexel University College of Medicine Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Joanna E. Cygler, PhD, FAAPM Senior Medical Physicist The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Center Ottawa , Ontario	Douglas J. Moseley, PhD Clinical Physicist Princess Margaret Hospital Toronto , Ontario
Sonja Dieterich, PhD Associate Professor Stanford University Stanford , California	Lakshmi Santanam, PhD Medical Physicist Washington University School of Medicine St.Louis , Missouri
John B. Fiveash, MD Associate Professor The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama	Randall K. Ten Haken, PhD, FAAPM Professor University of Michigan Ann Arbor , Michigan
Steve B. Jiang, PhD Associate Professor University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California	Sastry S. Vedam, PhD Assistant Professor UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas

Symposium Schedule

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Symposium Registration & Ice Breaker

Thursday, March 27, 2008

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM	Welcome and Introduction	Richard Popple
	Keynote
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM	Challenges of introducing new technologies into the clinic	Lakshmi Santanam
	Monte Carlo based Treatment Planning
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	A review of the Monte Carlo method in external photon beam treatment planning	Indrin Chetty
9:45 AM-10:15 AM	Morning Break in Vendor Exhibit Area
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM	Comparison of Superposition/Convolution and Monte Carlo methods for photon dose calculation	Moyed Miften
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM	Clinical Implementation and Use of Electron Monte Carlo based Treatment Planning Systems	Joanna Cygler
11:45 PM-1:30 PM	Lunch Break
	Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM	Cyberknife: from commissioning to application	Sonja Dieterich
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM	Clinical implementation of hypofractionation	John Fiveash
	Image Guided Radiation Therapy
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM	Keys to clinical implementation of IGRT	Jon Kruse
3:45PM-4:30PM	Afternoon Break in Vendor Exhibit Area
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM	Everything is under control: radiotherapy and adaptation	Doug Moseley
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM	Quality Assurance for Kilovoltage Cone-beam CT Image-guidance	Jean-Pierre Bissonnette

Friday, March 28, 2008

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
	Motion management in radiation therapy
8:00AM - 8:45 AM	Respiratory motion management in radiotherapy	Sastry Vedam
8:45AM - 9:30 AM	Image-guided radiotherapy for lung cancer	Steve Jiang
9:30 AM-10:00 AM	Morning Break in Vendor Exhibit Area
	Functional Imaging
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	PET/CT in Radiation Oncology	J. Daniel Bourland
10:45AM – 11:30AM	Biological imaging - what's done now and what's coming	Joe O'Donoghue
11:30AM – 12:15 PM	Use of mathematical/biological models in treatment plan evaluation/optimization	Randall Ten Haken