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PROF. PETER NAREDI
Umeå University Hospital, Sweden
*** Honorary Member ***
Peter Naredi is professor of surgery at the Umeå university hospital.
He is subspecialized in Surgical oncology and mainly Hepato
pancreato biliary surgery. After his Ph.D. in Surgery 1992 he
did a postdoctorial period at the Cancer Center at UCSD in San
Diego, California. He returned to Sahlgrenska university hospital
in Göteborg, Sweden before he (in 1997) moved to Umeå in Northern
Sweden in 2003 he became the professor and chair of the
Department of surgery. Naredi has been the initiator and P.I. of
several global clinical studies with immunotherapy in melanoma
and renal cell carcinoma. Presently his research focus is on
cancer chemotherapy resistance and the interaction of tyrosine
kinase inhibitors and platinum based cytostatics. He is President
of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) and the
immediate past president of the Swedish surgical society.
WOUTER WUNDERINK
Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*** ESTRO-ACCURAY Award ***
Wouter Wunderink was born on December 30 th 1972, Rotterdam,
the Netherlands. He studied applied physics at Delft University
of Technology in the Netherlands, where he specialized in signal
processing during the Masters program. In 2000, he graduated
with a Masters of Science degree before being hired as a scientific
programmer to implement tools for spectral analysis. In 2001,
he was appointed a project manager in the Royal Netherlands
Navy, responsible for the acquisition and acceptance testing of
personnel training facilities. He became acquainted with medical
physics in 2002, after being selected to participate in a
research project on stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)
treatments of liver cancer at Erasmus MC, in close co-operation
with radiation oncologist Alejandra Méndez Romero. Wouter coauthored
15 peer-reviewed papers and abstracts on the subject
and was the inventor of a patented solution for monitoring
patients’ respiration for the acquisition of 4D-CTs. The defence
of his PhD thesis, entitled “Accurate Targeting of Liver Tumors in
Stereotactic Radiation Therapy”, took place on the 4 th of March
2011 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. On the occasion of
Wouter’s and Alejandra’s defences, an international symposium
on liver SBRT was organised. Next to his research activities,
Wouter developed treatment procedures, co-assisted treatments,
and prepared the quality assurance for an international
clinical trial (RAS-trial) on the treatment of liver metastases. In
September 2010, Wouter entered a medical physics residency
at Erasmus MC for radiation oncology with a focus on the implementation
of new medical imaging technologies to improve
radiotherapy treatments.
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