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Physics Committee

  • The promotion of Medical Physics within radiation oncology in Europe through professional and educational development.

  • Establishing cooperation, eg, through Memorandum of Understandings (MoU), with other related organisations worldwide

  • Advising and educating the public and health professionals (in particular radiation oncologists) in matters related to radiation oncology physics

  • Promoting the representation of ESTRO in external activities related to radiotherapy in Europe

  • Provision of a coherent response to emerging issues of interest to radiotherapy physics in Europe

  • Promoting standards in medical physics in radiation oncology in Europe

  • Promoting and facilitating research initiatives in radiation oncology by medical physicists.

  • Physics assembly & networking 14 May 2023 recording

  • Ensuring representation of the ESTRO physics members

  • Holding an assembly of physicists at the annual ESTRO conference

  • Introducing new communication routes and intensify existing communication (e.g. newsletter)

  • Setting annual priorities for the Physics Committee (PC) in line with the ESTRO Vision

  • Ensuring that medical physicists are well represented in the relevant bodies of ESTRO

  • Identifying and co-ordinate task groups to address specific areas of interest to medical physics in Europe to enable further improvements in the optimisation of radiotherapy

  • Facilitating and enhance dissemination of science through medical physics orientated research meetings and workshops, in line with the ESTRO Vision document.

  • Promoting the of contribution of high quality physics papers in the Green Journal

  • Appointing an Honorary Physicist awardee

  • Nominating the Physics track Chair at the ESTRO annual conference.

  • Contributing to the scientific programme at the ESTRO annual congress.

  • Providing appropriate medical physics input to ESTRO initiatives

Chair: Daniela Thorwarth, Medical Physicist, University of Tübingen (DE)

Victor Hernandez, Medical Physicist, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus (ES) 

Livia Marrazzo, Medical Physicist, Careggi University Hospital (IT)

George Ntentas, Medical Physicist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, University of Oxford (UK)

Tomasz Piotrowski, Medical Physicist, Greater Poland Cancer Centre (PL)

Lorenzo Placidi, Medical Physicist, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS (IT)

Christian Richter, Medical Physicist, OncoRay (DE) 

Charlotte Robert, Medical Physicist, Paris-Saclay University and Gustave Roussy Hospital (FR) 

Christian Rønn Hansen, Medical Physicist, Odense University Hospital (DK)

Petra Trnkova,  Medical Physicist, Czech Technical University (CZ)

GEC-ESTRO Representative: Åsa Carlsson-Tedgren, Medical Physicist, Karolinska Institute (SE) 

Observer - Green Journal Physics Editor & EPTN: Dietmar Georg, Medical Physicist, Medical University of Vienna (AT)  

ECC Observer: Jenny Bertholet, Medical Physicist, Insel Gruppe (CH) 

Board Representative: Marianne Aznar, Medical Physicist, University of Manchester (UK) 

Board Representative: Coen Hurkmans, Medical Physicist, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven (NL) 

 

Past Chairs: 

Catharine Clark, University College London Hospital (UK) 

Núria Jornet, Sant Pau Hospital (ES)