Yearly News Archives: 2018

About 80% of children with the most common pediatric brain cancer live in low- and middle-income countries. There they have little access to advanced radiotherapies, such as proton therapy, to reduce treatment side effects. Dr. Phil Taddei explores challenges of this missed benefit in a commentary.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Geneser has been chosen to receive an Early Career Medical Physicist Scholarship Award by the Winter Institute in Medical Physics for her promising achievements in the field of radiation oncology physics.

Congratulations to Drs. Smith Apisarnthanarax and Stephen Bowen for 2^nd place; and Howard Lee with Drs. Jing Zeng, Stephen Bowen, and Ramesh Rengan for 3^rd place on the Cureus’ Proton Therapy Advanced Application for the Most Challenging Cases Publishing Competition!

Dr. Lia Halasz was invited to give an expert commentary on this research in JAMA Oncology, where she put the research findings into the perspective of the care and quality of life of glioma patients.

Congratulations to Dr. Minsun Kim for her appointment as Senior Editor for the ASTRO’s Practical Radiation Oncology Journal.

Congratulations to Dr. Jing Zeng for her new role as the Disease-Specific Lead for Thoracic Radiation Oncology in the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Congratulations to Dr. Simon Lo for his role as Lead of the Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) Program in the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Congratulations to Dr. Rob Stewart for his appointment as an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Radiology (BJR) in the field of Computational Radiation Biology.

Congratulations to George Sandison, PhD, FCCPM, FAAPM, on his election by the University of Washington senators to the leadership team of our UW Faculty Senate for a 3-year term.

Congratulations to Dr. Simon Lo for his appointment as Associate Editor in the Radiation Oncology section of the journal Neurosurgery.