Region I meeting speaker handouts

Friday, March 20, 2009
7:30 am Medicare Updates for Dosimetry Billing
Kelli Weiss, RT(R)(T), Tamara Syverson, BS, RT(T)
Revenue Cycle Inc.
8:30 am Evolution of Prone Breast Treatment in a Community Cancer Setting
Elizabeth A. Shiner, MSc, DABR
Samaritan Regional Cancer Center, Corvallis, Oregon
9:30 am Break in Exhibit Hall
10:00 am Cardiac and Lung Normal Tissue Tolerances for Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy
Marie Taylor, MD, FACR.
Washington University Department of Radiation Oncology
Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, Missouri
11:00 am The Evolution of Arc Therapy in Treatment Planning
David H. Robinson, CMD, MBA
Philips Medical Systems
12:00 pm Lunch in Exhibit Hall
1:00 pm Initial Clinical experience with Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy
David M. Shepard, PhD, DABR
Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington
2:00 pm Adaptive Radiotherapy
Martin Fuss, MD, PhD
Oregon Health Sciences University Radiation Medicine, Portland, Oregon
3:00 pm Break in Exhibit Hall
3:30 pm Advances in Linac-Based Stereotactic Radiosurgery
James A. Tanyi, PhD, DABR
Oregon Health Sciences University Radiation Medicine, Portland, Oregon
4:30 pm SBRT for Cancer of the Lung or Liver
Martin Fuss, MD, PhD
Oregon Health Sciences University Radiation Medicine, Portland, Oregon
5:30 pm Innovations in the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer
Patrick Gagnon, MD, MS
Oregon Health Sciences University Radiation Medicine, Portland, Oregon
7:00 pm Reception in Exhibit Hall
7:30 pm The History of Radiation Oncology in Oregon
Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr, MD
Oregon Health Sciences University Radiation Medicine, Portland, Oregon

 

Saturday, March 21, 2009
7:30 am ACR Accreditation for Radiation Oncology
Scott Dube, MS
Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Napa, California
8:30 am The Potential of Differential Early and Late Effects from IMRT/IGRT Based on Current Biological Models
Darwin Zellmer, PhD
Anchorage Radiation Therapy Center, Anchorage, Alaska
9:30 am Break in Exhibit Hall
10:00 am Use of MRI in Breast Cancer Radiation Treatment Planning
Marie Taylor, MD, FACR
Washington University Department of Radiation Oncology
Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, Missouri
11:00 am Current Trends in Prostate Cancer Treatment
Howard Sandler, MD, MS
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
12:00 pm Lunch in Exhibit Hall or NW AAPM Chapter Meeting
1:00 pm Pancreaticobillary Cancer
Guobin Song, MD
Vi2rginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Wa=shington
2:00 pm HDR Brachytherapy
Scott Dube, MS
Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Nappa, California
3:00 pm Break in Exhibit Hall
3:30 pm 4D Planning and Evaluating Target Motion
Mlark Russell, MS, MHA
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
4:30 pm Paperless Dept Panel discussion
Paul Cooper, BS, CMD
Monica Hahn, RT(T), BS
Elizabeth A. Shiner MSc, DABR		     Pacific Oncology, Portland, Oregon
Kaiser Permanente, Portland, Oregon
Samaritan Regional Cancer Center, Corvallis, Oregon