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ESTRO AWARDS
| Programme and Exhibition Guide
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Annette Bøjen
Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Denmark
Annette Bøjen was educated as a registered nurse and radiation
therapist. She is the Head of the Learning Centre at Aarhus University
Hospital and has been leader of the Radiation Therapist Education
Programme in the Western part of Denmark since the beginning of
2000.
From the onset of working in the field of radiation therapy, her main
interest has been dedicated to secure the best quality of treatment
performed by well-educated radiation therapists (RTTs). She was active
in the establishment of a formal national education programme for
RTTs.
Annette Bøjen participated in the second (2002) and third (2011)
revision of the ESTRO RTT core curriculum. She has been a member
of the RTT Committee since 2012 and the Scientific Programme
Committee of the annual ESTRO meetings for the past three years. In
a newly started RTT collaboration with the Canadian Association of
Medical Radiation Technologies (CAMRT), Annette is co-chairing the
first project. She is the RTT Committee’s representative in the National
Society Committee and is an editorial board member on the ESTRO
open access journal
TipsRO
(Technical Innovations & patient Support
in Radiation Oncology).
Aarhus University Hospital was the first institution to implement
the use of a 3D virtual reality (VR) environment in radiation therapy
learning. Annette Bøjen is responsible for the ongoing progress with
the Danish-UK collaboration and integration of VR in the education
of all professions. She has developed and organised several systematic
learning programmes such as research methodology for RTTs and
qualifying of RTTs to manage daily online IGRT and ART in large
scale. She has also contributed to scientific papers and Danish text
books.
Annette Bøjen
Awardees’ biographies