PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2024

14 Jan 2024, 18:00 → 19 Jan 2024, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Damien Charles Weber (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

                                                    

Registration is closed.

                                                                                      
Content of the course:

• Clinical indications adult (CNS, GI, Head & Neck, Skull base)
• Pediatrics and AYA
• Basic physics of proton therapy
• Radiation biology
• Delivery & treatment planning
• Therapy workflow
• Uncertainty & motion
• Specification, commissioning & Q.A.
• New directions in proton therapy

Aim of course:

To provide detailed knowledge on the clinical, physics and technological aspects of proton therapy using pencil beam scanning

Target audience:

Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, physicists, engineers, radiation technologists and dosimetrists. No previous knowledge of proton therapy is necessary.

Important:

Kindly note that the course is designed for 45 external participants and registration will close when the number of participants has been reached, but latest by: Sunday, December 17th, 2023

 

Sunday, 14 January

18:00 → 21:00 Enjoy the finger food

18:00 → 20:00 Registration

Dry run if requested.

20:00 → 22:00 Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths

Monday, 15 January

08:30 → 09:00 Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome (Introduction of faculty, virtual meeting, etc.)

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

01_Introduction WD17 WS 2024.pdf

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09:15 → 09:45 A short historical overview of proton therapy

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

02_Ver. 2024 Brief history of proton therapy Damien C. Weber.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Basic physics for proton radiation

Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

03_BasicPhysics-40m-Schippers-2024.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:45 Basic radiaton biology of photons and protons

Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)

04_Pruschy PSI-School 2024 - final.pdf

11:45 → 12:30 Toxicity Clinical

Speaker: Esther Troost

05_Esther_Troost_Toxicity Clinical.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:15 How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy?

Speaker: Harald Paganetti (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School)

06_Paganetti_PSI_Winterschool_2024.pdf

14:15 → 14:45 Toxicity: Clinical impact of proton RBE

Speaker: Dirk Wagenaar

07_2024-01-14 - PSI - Toxicity - Clinical impact of proton RBE - new.pdf

14:45 → 15:05 Coffee break

15:05 → 15:35 Financial Toxicity

Speakers: Barbara Bachtiary (Dr. med.), Damien Charles Weber (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

08_Financial toxicity-PSI WinterSchool 2024 Damien C. Weber.pdf

15:35 → 16:05 Second malignancies

Speaker: Uwe Schneider

09_2024_Schneider_PSI_Winterschool_V0.pdf

16:05 → 16:15 Break

16:15 → 17:15 Treatment planning for pencil beam scanning and IMPT

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

10_Treatment planning V3.pdf

17:15 → 17:20 Group picture

17:20 → 17:30 Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

17:30 → 18:00 On the way to Park Hotel

18:00 → 19:30 Dinner at Parkhotel

19:30 → 22:00 Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths

Tuesday, 16 January

08:30 → 09:00 Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel

09:00 → 13:00 Physicians block

09:00 Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber

11b_Ver. 2024 Winterschool Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma.pdf

09:45 Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12b_Ver. 2024 Winterschool CNS tumor adult.pdf

10:15 Break

10:25 GI and proton therapy

Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)

13b_PSIwinterschool_PFossati2024.pdf

11:10 Coffee break

11:30 Proton therapy for pediatrics and AYA patients

Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)

14b_PSI Mahajan PED AYA 2024.pdf

12:15 Advancing proton therapy in lung cancer: Beyond proton bragg peak

Speaker: Joe Chang (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

15b_PSI proton TX lung ca Jan. 2024 PDF.pdf

09:00 → 13:00 Physics block

09:00 Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11a_2024_ActiveScanningBeam1_ ModulatingDelivery_DMeer.pdf

09:45 Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery

Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

12a_240101_Winterschool_gm17-1.pdf

10:15 break

10:25 Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry

Speaker: Michele Togno

13a_Dosimetry_Winter School 2024_Togno.pdf

11:10 Coffee Break

11:30 Advanced physics

Speaker: Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

14a_AdvancedPhysics_2024_Safai.pdf

12:15 Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15a_2024_AcceleratorsAndBeamProductionTechniquesForProtonTherapy_DMeer.pdf

13:00 → 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 → 15:00 Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

16_LANGENDIJK - Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy - HANDOUT.pdf

15:00 → 15:45 Head and neck cancers

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

17_LANGENDIJK - HNC Proton therapy - HANDOUT.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:45 Proton therapy workflow

Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

18_Meijers WS 2024 - Proton Therapy Workflow.pdf

16:45 → 17:15 Ocular proton treatment

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

19_PSI WS 2024 - Ocular Proton Therapy.pdf

17:15 → 17:30 Departure to social EVENT - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

17:30 → 18:15 On the way to the social event

18:15 → 19:45 Bowling

19:45 → 22:00 Dinner

22:00 → 22:30 Back to Park Hotel Bad Zurzach

Wednesday, 17 January

08:30 → 09:00 Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel

09:00 → 09:45 Delivery uncertainties and their consequences

Speaker: Francesca Albertini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

20_Albertini_uncertainties_2024_final.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Motion / motion mitigation

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

21_Fattori_Motion-MotionMitigation_2024.pdf

10:30 → 10:55 Coffee break and group allocation

10:55 → 11:10 On the way to the workshop

11:10 → 12:10 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speakers: Barbara Bachtiary, Dominic Leiser (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Nicola Bizzocchi (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:10 → 12:15 Change workshop session

12:15 → 13:15 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speakers: Alessandra Bolsi (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

13:15 → 13:30 On the way for lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 14:45 On the way to the workshop

14:45 → 15:45 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:45 → 15:50 Change workshop session

15:50 → 16:50 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speakers: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Martin Grossmann Handschin (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:50 → 17:20 Coffee break

17:25 → 18:25 Site tour

18:25 → 18:40 on way back to meeting point outside the auditorium

18:45 → 19:10 On the way to Park Hotel

19:15 → 20:45 Dinner at Parkhotel

Thursday, 18 January

08:30 → 09:00 Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel

09:00 → 09:45 Commissioning a new facility: Specifications

Speaker: Håkan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)

30_PSI WS 2024 Nyström.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Commissioning a new facility: Clinical

Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI)

31_PSI WS 2024 - Commissioning.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee-Break

11:00 → 11:30 Protons versus "the competition"

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

32_Competition_V2.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Technological Innovation: Flash:: BIOLOGY

Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin

33_MCVozenin_PSI2024.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Technological Innovation: Flash:: PHYSICS

Speaker: Serena Psoroulas (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

34_WS2024_FLASH_Physics.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:15 Technological Innovation: Treatment planning

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

35_PSI WS 2024 Hrbacek - TPS.pdf

14:15 → 15:00 Technological innovations: AI in radiotherapy

Speaker: Zoltan Perko

36_AI_in_PT_PSI_Winter_School_ZP_Rev2.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:15 Technological innovation: Imaging

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

37_Fattori_TechnologicalInnovation_Imaging_2024.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Technological innovation: Delivery

Speaker: Serena Psoroulas (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

38_WS2024_TechInn_Delivery.pdf

17:00 → 17:15 Closing Remarks

Speakers: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Damien Charles Weber (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

17:15 → 17:30 Departure to the hotel - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

17:30 → 18:00 On the way to Park Hotel

18:00 → 19:30 Dinner at Parkhotel

19:30 → 22:00 Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths

Friday, 19 January

07:30 → 11:00 Checking out

Wishing you a safe travel back to your home country.

07:30 → 17:30 Skiing day - Optional

The Skiing day will take place at Flumserberg.
For any further information about it, please see:
https://www.flumserberg.ch/en/Experience-winter