Archives for January 2024

5th Amsterdam Brachy College | January 25-26, 2024

To attract young radiation oncologists and medical physicists to brachytherapy, Amsterdam UMC (location AMC), in collaboration with BrachyAcademy hosted the „Amsterdam Brachy College“ for the 5th time. The event featured a great faculty team, such as Bradley Pieters, Henrike Westerveld, Cristina Gutierrez, Nicole Eder-Nesvacil, Danique Barten, and Karel Hinnen. At the start of the course, 18 participants from the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Spain, and Guatemala introduced themselves by … (more...)

Another fully booked GYN BrachyAcademy workshop in Mumbai

On January 18-20, 2024 BrachyAcademy organized the workshop covering all GYN brachytherapy indications at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai with Dr. Supriya Chopra and the ESTRO teachers: Alina Sturdza, Remi Nout, Kari Tanderup. We used 10 mannequins for the hands-on training and a full range of GYN demo applicators: Venezia, Geneva, Rotte, Cylinders and MUPIT. The workshop attracted 38 Radiation Oncologists and Medical Physicists from India, South Africa, Kenya, Indonesia, the Philippines, … (more...)