State of the art radiotherapy day

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Mr Jamie Fairfoul Head of Radiotherapy Planning, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Jamie Fairfoul is Head of Treatment Planning at Peterborough City Hospital, a small but very busy department with extensive experience of advanced IMRT and IGRT. Dr Martin Highley Consultant Oncologist, Plymouth Oncology Centre, Derriford Hospital Martin Highley is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, managing patients with melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, and ovarian and testicular cancers. He trained at Guys Hospital, London and The Northern Centre for Cancer Treatment, Newcastle. He has an interest in the pharmacology of anti-cancer agents. Ms Hayley James Head of Radiotherapy Physics, Ipswich Hospital Hayley James has been a physicist at Ipswich Hospital since 1999, having trained previously at Sheffield and then worked as a radiotherapy physicist at the Christie. She has been Head of Radiotherapy Physics at Ipswich Hospital since 2010. She has always had particular interests in implementing new technologies, such as IMRT and VMAT and more recently SABR, as well as radiotherapy clinical trials. She is a member of the NPL Radiation Dosimetry Steering Group, IMPORT Trial Management Group and attends RT Trials QA management group meetings. Mr Andrew Reilly Consultant Clinical Scientist, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Andrew Reilly is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in the radiotherapy physics department at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. His primary role is to support the clinical use and development of radiotherapy imaging technologies and work towards improved systems integration. He has a particular interest in bridging the gap between different imaging disciplines and optimising imaging across the radiotherapy process. He is founder of the IQWorks project, leads the Radiotherapy Imaging User Group and provided physics support under the national NRIG mentoring programme for IGRT implementation. Andrew served as Chairman of the BIR Radiation, Physics and Dosimetry Committee until 2009, was a member of BIR Council from 2010 to 2013 and represents the BIR on the DH Medical Physics Expert working group.

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