2021 Symposium

The 2021 Midwest Radiation Oncology Symposium speakers' presentations.

Dr. Charles Enke - Welcome and Continuing Education Credits Information

DAY 1

Anal Cancer

• Are We Moving the Field Forward in the Management of Anal Canal Cancer? - Lisa A. Kachnic, MD, FASTRO
• Anal Cancer Systemic Therapy Updates — Laura Tenner, MD
• A Radioprotector For Use in Anal/Rectal Cancer — Rebecca Oberley-Deegan, PhD
• The Phase I Results of a Phase ½ Trial for Patient With Newly Diagnosed Anal Cancer Treated With Concurrent Radiation Therapy, 5FU, Mitomycin and BMX-001 — Chi Lin, MD, PhD

Oral Cancer

• Oral Cavity Cancer: A Reconstructive Perspective — Elizabeth Bradford Bell, MD
• Postoperative Radiation for Oral Cavity Cancer: How Can We Reduce the Complications? — Weining (Ken) Zhen, MD, FASTRO, FACR
• Swallow Rehabilitation in Head and Neck Cancer — Carol Gaebler, MS, CCC-SLP
• Prognostic Significance of Preoperative Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma — Brendan Coutu, MD
• Uncovering Radiosensitization Mechanisms and Targeting by Small Molecule Inhibitors in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma — Surinder Batra, PhD

Brain Cancer

• A Summary of the cIMPACT-NOW Updates on Central Nervous System (CNS) Tumor Classification — Jie Chen, MD
• How Gliomas Make Friends and Take Over the World — Michele Aizenberg, MD
• Immunotherapy in Glioma: An Update — Nicole Shonka, MD
• Anti-PD-L1 Treatment Synergizes with Radiation Therapy on Glioblastoma Producing Long-Term Survival in Mice — Chi (Kevin) Zhang, MD, PhD
• New Technologies, Dosimetric Accuracy, and Complication Avoidance in the Management of Spinal Tumors — Miki Katzir, MD

Medical Physics

• Incorporating Intracellular Oxygen Tension Into Lethal and Potential Lethal Model for FLASH Radiotherapy — Su-min Zhou, PhD
• Notes From the Other Pandemic: A Cybersecurity Event in Radiation Oncology — Diane Schott, PhD
• Ultrasound as an Adjuvant Therapy for Chronic Deep Vein Thrombosis — Samuel Hendley, PhD
• Quantitative Imaging Analysis To Distinguish Normal Pancreas From Cancerous Pancreas — Shuo Wang, PhD

DAY 2

Interdisciplinary Medical Physics

• How Can We Lead the Way for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in STEM? — Julianne Pollard-Larkin, PhD
• Teaching Radiation Therapy to the Public Through YouTube — Nana Aba Mensah-Brown, PhD, DAB
• Workflow Improvements in Radiation Oncology — Andrew Granatowicz, MS, CMD
• Automated Workload Distribution in Radiation Oncology — Shuo Wang, PhD

Prostate Cancer and Renal Cell Carcinoma

• Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy of Renal Cell Carcinoma — Charles Enke, MD
• Optimal Systemic Therapy in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer — Benjamin A. Teply, MD
• Initial Experience Starting an Intraoperative Ultrasound-Guided Prostate High Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Program: A Physicist’s Perspective — Abby Besemer, PhD
• Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthase (FDPS) As a Novel Target for Radiosensitization of Prostate Cancer — Parthasarathy Seshacharyulu, PhD

Sarcoma and Gynecologic Cancers

• Contemporary Treatment of Retroperitoneal Sarcomas — Joshua Mammen, MD, PhD, FACS
• Ewing’s Sarcoma: A Historical Perspective on Diagnosis and Treatment — Don Coulter, MD
• Navigating High-Risk Endometrial Cancer — Nathan Bennion, MD
• New Innovations in Endometrial Cancer — Steven Remmenga, MD

Breast Cancer

• Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy of Renal Cell Carcinoma — Charles Enke, MD
• Management of the Axilla After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy — Andrew Wahl, MD
• Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) for Early-Stage Breast Cancer — Juan Santamaria, MD
• Risk-Adapted Therapy for HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer — Jairam Krishnamurthy, MD, FACP