ART-STL Symposium:
POSTPONED | St. Louis, MO, USA
Due to the recent global health concern with COVID-19 (coronavirus), the organizing committee for ART-STL has decided to postpone the May 20-21, 2020 conference. We want to be conscientious of contributing to the overall safety of our patients, staff and communities. Given the recently identified first confirmed case in St. Louis and growing global incidence, we hope this postponement will minimize non-essential travel and expedite the resolution of this outbreak.
We apologize for any inconvenience this postponement may cause and will update this site as soon as a new date is finalized.
The Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University will host the first annual ART-STL conference focusing on present clinical applications and future directions for adaptive radiation therapy. Presentations, group discussions and live demonstrations will focus on both MR and CT guided adaptive radiation therapy across multiple technologies and radiation modalities.
Symposium Organizers
The symposium will be held on the Washington University School of Medicine Campus and these are the organizers of the event.
Hyun Kim, MD
Hyun Kim, MD is the interim chief of GI oncology and lead physician for the MR clinical service in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis. His clinical research focuses on adaptive radiation therapy and non-operative treatment regimens to improve outcomes in GI cancers, especially pancreas, gastric, rectal and liver tumors. He is the PI of multiple investigator initiated trials for adaptive MR guided radiation therapy (MRgRT) and was the PI of an industry sponsored trial that resulted in the first-in-world CBCT images with a novel ring-gantry imaging system that may permit adaptive radiation therapy in CT based therapy units.
Geoffrey D. Hugo, PhD
Dr. Hugo is a Professor of Radiation Oncology (physics division) and Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He leads the Computational Radiotherapy Lab (CORAL), which specializes in imaging and image guidance as it applies to radiation therapy. Specific areas of interest include: cardiac radioablation, image analysis, adaptive radiotherapy, deformable image registration, and 4D and motion management.
Olga L. Green, PhD
Olga L. Green, PhD, is an assistant professor of radiation oncology and Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program. Professor Green joined the faculty in 2011 after completing her residency in medical physics at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Green’s clinical work and research focuses on magnetic resonance image-guided radiation therapy. She was the lead authorized medical physicist for the first-in-the world Co-60 MR-IGRT system, and is currently Chief of Service for the MR-IGRT program. Dr. Green’s specialties include online, on-couch adaptive radiotherapy, and real-time, real-anatomy-based beam control.