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Meet UPLIFT Consortium External Advisory Board Members , dedicated experts who will offer guaidance and mentorship to researchers through their research journey.
Thomas Bortfeld
Thomas Bortfeld is professor for radiation oncology at Harvard University and chief of the radiation biophysics department at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. He has a long-history of significant breakthrough contributions to the field of radiotherapy, in particular the development of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), which has been applied to more than 30 million patients worldwide. His research focuses on the development of “optimal stopping” methods for optimized individualized therapy, the systematic determination of the clinical target volume (CTV), and the development of methods, including upright positioning, to reduce the costs of proton therapy, aiming to make this form of therapy more accessible to a larger number of patients.
Marianne Aznar
Marianne Aznar is professor for radiation oncology physics at the University of Manchester and the Christie Hospital in Manchester, UK. She is a member of the teaching faculty and the physics committee of ESTRO, and has founded and is co-chair of the Women in Physics group. In addition, she is part of the ESTRO-HERO initiative on health economics in radiotherapy. Her broad contributions to radiotherapy have marked major milestones in advancing treatment quality, especially in childhood cancer, breast cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. She also is Physics Editor for the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology.
Tomas Kron
Tomas Kron is Director of Physical Sciences at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Tomas is on the editorial board of several scientific journals including Radiother. Oncol. and serves as associate editor for Radiat. Meas. and Clin. Oncol (RCR). He is a regular consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and has been president of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (2009-10).His has made major contributions to the socio-economic impact of radiotherapy and is currently working on upright positioning.
Karen Christaki
Karen Christaki holds a PhD in radiation physics from University College London. She worked for two decades in the dosimetry section at the primary standards laboratory in U.K. the National Physical Laboratory and then spent a further 10 years working as a clinically qualified Medical Physicist in various radiotherapy departments close to London, UK. In 2014, she joined the IAEA as a radiotherapy medical physics technical officer and in 2019 became head of the IAEA dosimetry laboratory.
