PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2025

12 Jan 2025, 18:00 → 17 Jan 2025, 17:30 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 12 January

18:00 Enjoy the finger food

1 Registration

Dry run if requested.

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

Monday 13 January

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

2 Welcome (Introduction of faculty, virtual meeting, etc.)

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

3 A short historical overview of proton therapy

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

4 Basic physics for proton radiation

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

Coffee break

5 Basic radiaton biology of photons and protons

Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)

6 Toxicity Clinical

Speaker: Esther Troost

12:30 Lunch break

7 How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy?

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

8 Toxicity: Clinical impact of proton RBE

Speaker: Dirk Wagenaar

14:45 Coffee break

9 Financial Toxicity

Speaker: Barbara Bachtiary (Dr. med.)

10 Second malignancies

Speaker: Uwe Schneider

16:05 Break

11 Treatment planning for pencil beam scanning and IMPT

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

17:15 Group picture

17:20 Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

17:30 On the way to Park Hotel

18:00 Dinner at Parkhotel

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

Tuesday 14 January

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

Physicians block

12 Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma

Speaker: Dominic Leiser (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

13 Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:15 Break

14 GI and proton therapy

Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)

11:10 Coffee break

15 Proton therapy for pediatrics and AYA patients

Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)

16 Advancing proton therapy in lung cancer: Beyond proton bragg peak

Speaker: Joe Chang (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Physics block

17 Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

18 Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery

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

10:15 break

19 Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry

Speaker: Michele Togno (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:10 Coffee Break

20 Advanced physics

Speaker: Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

21 Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

13:00 Lunch break

22 Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

23 Head and neck cancers

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

Coffee break

24 Proton therapy workflow

Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

25 Ocular proton treatment

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

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

17:30 On the way to the social event

18:15 Bowling

19:45 Dinner

22:00 Back to Park Hotel Bad Zurzach

Wednesday 15 January

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

26 Delivery uncertainties and their consequences

Speaker: Francesca Albertini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

27 Motion / motion mitigation

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:30 Coffee break and group allocation

10:55 On the way to the workshop

28 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

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

12:10 Change workshop session

29 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

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

13:15 On the way for lunch

13:30 Lunch break

14:30 On the way to the workshop

30 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

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

15:45 Change workshop session

31 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

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

16:50 Coffee break

32 Site tour - Optional

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

18:45 On the way to Park Hotel

19:15 Dinner at Parkhotel

Thursday 16 January

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

33 Commissioning a new facility: Specifications

Speaker: Håkan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)

34 Commissioning a new facility: Clinical

Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI)

10:30 Coffee-Break

35 Protons versus "the competition"

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

36 Technological Innovation: Flash:: BIOLOGY

Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin

37 Technological Innovation: Flash:: PHYSICS

Speaker: Robert Schäfer

12:30 Lunch break

38 Technological Innovation: Treatment planning

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

39 Technological innovations: AI in radiotherapy

Speaker: Zoltan Perko

15:00 Coffee break

40 Technological innovation: Imaging

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

41 Technological innovation: Delivery

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

42 Closing Remarks

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

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

17:30 On the way to Park Hotel

18:00 Dinner at Parkhotel

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

Friday 17 January

07:30 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

Tour within Paul Scherrer Institut - Optional

Wishing you a safe travel back to your home country.