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ESTRO AWARDS
| Programme and Exhibition Guide
IRIDIUMAWARD
Jack L.M. Venselaar
Instituut Verbeeten, Dept of Clinical Physics
Tilburg, The Netherlands
Dr Jack Venselaar received his PhD in 2000 at Leiden University in The
Netherlands on the topic of accuracy requirements of external beam
therapy treatment planning. He is a senior specialist medical physicist,
appointed in 1979, in the department of Medical Physics & Engineering
of Instituut Verbeeten, Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has experience
in the field of radiotherapy and brachytherapy physics, radiation
protection and hyperthermia. He has pursued research in the field of
dosimetry, quality assurance and technology of brachytherapy since the
80s. His contributions to brachytherapy physics and technology include
dosimetry of high-activity sources, development and establishment
of dosimetry protocols, advanced quality control procedures and
systems, development of quality audit systems, and brachytherapy
radiation protection data. He was a board member of The Netherlands
Commission of Radiation Dosimetry (NCS) and participated in several
of the NCS committees including one chair position. From 2001 to 2008
he chaired the Brachytherapy Physics Quality Systems (BRAPHYQS)
group of GEC-ESTRO. Dr Venselaar also acted as a liaison between
the GEC-ESTRO Committee of ESTRO and the AAPM Brachytherapy
Subcommittee and the ABS Physics Committee. He was the national
coordinator of the Patterns of Care in Brachytherapy study project of
GEC-ESTRO. He furthermore was a consultant on several assignments
for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for both teaching
and advisory activities. In 2013 he co-authored a book published by
CRC Taylor & Francis on Comprehensive Brachytherapy, Physical and
Clinical Aspects (Venselaar JLM, Baltas D, Meigooni AS, and Hoskin
PJ, Eds.). From 2001-2009 he taught on brachytherapy physics lectures
on the international ESTRO teaching course on Modern Brachytherapy
Techniques. Together with Prof Dimos Baltas from Offenbach, he
shared the course directorship of the first and successful ESTRO
teaching course on Advanced Brachytherapy Physics which was held in
Brussels in May 2014.
Jack LM Venselaar