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DR. PETRA GEORG
Medical University Vienna, Austria
*** ESTRO-VARIAN Award ***
Petra Georg received her medical degree at the Medical University
of Vienna, Austria, in 2000. Between 1998-1999 she
stayed as early stage researcher at the Department of Radiation
Oncology at the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) in the
framework of the Erasmus students exchange programme. The
research project on the “Cosmetic results of breast conserving
treatment for mammary cancer - the impact of different radiotherapy
treatment”, which she conducted in Leuven, raised her
interest in normal tissue effects. In 2004, after 4 years of clinical
practice in general medicine and endocrinology, Petra Georg entered
the residency programme for radiotherapy and radiation
oncology at the Department of Radiotherapy, Medical University
Vienna/AKH Wien. Since then, she combined patient care and
clinical research, in which she was mostly focusing on late side
effects of radiation treatment and their dose dependency. Petra
Georg has been actively involved in the implementation and
further development of MRI guided adaptive brachytherapy of
cervix cancer in the research group of Prof. Richard Pötter. Her
major contribution was the dose response definition for bladder
and rectum morbidity after combined external and MRI guided
adaptive brachytherapy. In November 2010 she passed her board
examination and in January 2012 she was certified as medical
specialist in the field of radiotherapy and radiation oncology.
Beside clinical responsibilities, Petra Georg is an active lecturer
covering both basic clinical education for medical students as
well as advanced radiotherapy for PhD students at the Medical
University of Vienna. She is also supervising master and doctoral
theses.
WOLFGANG HOEGELE, M.SC.
Regensburg University Medical Center, Regensburg,
Germany
*** ESTRO-JACK FOWLER University of Wisconsin Award ***
W. Hoegele was born 1984 in Cham, Germany. Since 2003, he
has been studying mathematics at the Regensburg University of
Applied Sciences (HSR), Germany. In 2007 he graduated with a
German diploma degree with distinction. Topic of the thesis was
the development of novel optimization techniques for inverse
treatment planning in radiotherapy.
During these studies, he spent a research semester at the Max-
Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching/Munich, Germany,
focusing on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the simulation
of supernovae.
After the degree in mathematics, he spent a half-year research
stay in 2008 at the Dana-Farber / Brigham and Women’s Cancer
Center (DF/BWCC), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, USA,
working on novel VMAT optimization strategies.
For excellence in studies and research in applied mathematics
he received the award ‘Kulturpreis Bayern’ in 2008.
From end 2008 until end 2009 he studied medical physics at the
Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty of Mannheim, Germany,
and graduated as M.Sc. with best grade. For the master’s thesis
he spent a second half-year stay at the DF/BWCC (HMS) and
focused further on the clinical application of new VMAT optimization
strategies.
Since 2009 he has been working on his doctoral studies in medical
physics (biomedical program) focusing on image guidance
for radiotherapy at the Regensburg University Medical Center,
Germany. In parallel, he is teaching computer science and engineering
students in applied mathematics at the HSR.
His current research is concerned with the Bayesian estimation
of patient positioning errors utilizing short-arc radiographs.
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