PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2025

Jan 12, 2025, 6:00 PM → Jan 17, 2025, 5:30 PM Europe/Zurich

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

REGISTRATION IS OPEN                                                    
Content of the course:                        

• 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: Monday, December 16th, 2024

We are endoresed by:

Sunday, January 12

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM Enjoy the finger food

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Registration

Dry run if requested.

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths

Monday, January 13

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome (Introduction of faculty, virtual meeting, etc.)

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

9:15 AM → 9:45 AM A short historical overview of proton therapy

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Basic physics for proton radiation

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

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

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

Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)

11:45 AM → 12:30 PM Toxicity Clinical

Speaker: Esther Troost

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:15 PM How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy?

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

2:15 PM → 2:45 PM Toxicity: Clinical impact of proton RBE

Speaker: Dirk Wagenaar

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Coffee break

3:05 PM → 3:35 PM Financial Toxicity

Speaker: Barbara Bachtiary (Dr. med.)

3:35 PM → 4:05 PM Second malignancies

Speaker: Uwe Schneider

4:05 PM → 4:15 PM Break

4:15 PM → 5:15 PM Treatment planning for pencil beam scanning and IMPT

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

5:15 PM → 5:20 PM Group picture

5:20 PM → 5:30 PM Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM On the way to Park Hotel

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Dinner at Parkhotel

7:30 PM → 10:00 PM Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths

Tuesday, January 14

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Physicians block

9:00 AM Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma

Speaker: Dominic Leiser (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

9:45 AM Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:15 AM Break

10:25 AM GI and proton therapy

Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)

11:10 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM Proton therapy for pediatrics and AYA patients

Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)

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

Speaker: Joe Chang (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Physics block

9:00 AM Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

9:45 AM Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery

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

10:15 AM break

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

Speaker: Michele Togno (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM Advanced physics

Speaker: Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:15 PM Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

1:00 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM → 3:00 PM Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

3:00 PM → 3:45 PM Head and neck cancers

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM → 4:45 PM Proton therapy workflow

Speaker: Michelle van Heerden

4:45 PM → 5:15 PM Ocular proton treatment

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

5:15 PM → 5:30 PM Departure to social EVENT - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

5:30 PM → 6:15 PM On the way to the social event

6:15 PM → 7:45 PM Bowling

7:45 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner

10:00 PM → 10:30 PM Back to Park Hotel Bad Zurzach

Wednesday, January 15

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Delivery uncertainties and their consequences

Speaker: Francesca Albertini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Motion / motion mitigation

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM → 12:15 PM Change workshop session

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

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

1:15 PM → 1:30 PM On the way for lunch

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM → 2:45 PM On the way to the workshop

2:45 PM → 3:45 PM Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

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

3:45 PM → 3:50 PM Change workshop session

3:50 PM → 4:50 PM Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

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

4:50 PM → 5:20 PM Coffee break

5:25 PM → 6:25 PM Site tour - Optional

6:25 PM → 6:40 PM on way back to meeting point outside the auditorium

6:45 PM → 7:10 PM On the way to Park Hotel

7:15 PM → 8:45 PM Dinner at Parkhotel

Thursday, January 16

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Commissioning a new facility: Specifications

Speaker: Alejandro Mazal (Centro de Protonterapia Quironsalud)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Commissioning a new facility: Clinical

Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee-Break

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

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

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

Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin

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

Speaker: Robert Schäfer

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:15 PM Technological Innovation: Treatment planning

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

2:15 PM → 3:00 PM Technological innovations: AI in radiotherapy

Speaker: Zoltan Perko

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee break

3:30 PM → 4:15 PM Technological innovation: Imaging

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

4:15 PM → 5:00 PM Technological innovation: Delivery

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

5:00 PM → 5:15 PM Closing Remarks

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

5:15 PM → 5:30 PM Departure to the hotel - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM On the way to Park Hotel

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Dinner at Parkhotel

7:30 PM → 10:00 PM Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths

Friday, January 17

7:30 AM → 5:30 PM 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

7:30 AM → 1:00 PM Tour within Paul Scherrer Institut - Optional

Wishing you a safe travel back to your home country.