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)

In 2025 the Winter School is taking place from January 12th to January 17th.
Registration is going to be open soon.

                                                    

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