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ESTRO AWARDS
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JENS OVERGAARD LEGACY AWARD
Pierre Blanchard
Institut Gustave Roussy
Villejuif, France
Dr Blanchard is a member of the faculty at Gustave Roussy Cancer
Centre, France. He has developed a strong clinical background in the
field of head and neck radiotherapy, genitourinary radiotherapy and
brachytherapy as well as proton therapy and quality of life studies.
In parallel to his medical training, he performed a PhD in Public
Health on biostatistics and individual patient data meta-analyses. He
is frequently invited for talks on statistics and methodology applied to
clinical research. He is currently the clinical manager of the head and
neck meta-analyses performed at Gustave Roussy (more than 150 trials,
four individual patients meta-analysis, a consortium of more than 15
institutions). He is very active within the internationally recognised
head and neck research groups GORTEC (head and neck oncology) and
GETUG (urologic oncology). He is the co-primary investigator of an
international phase III trial on pelvic lymph node radiotherapy in high
risk prostate cancer. Dr Blanchard also serves as faculty for different
courses organised at Gustave Roussy and is currently responsible for
a national teaching course on head and neck radiotherapy. He has
published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He also
serves as reviewer for the
Journal of Clinical Oncology
,
Radiotherapy
and Oncology
, and the
International Journal of Radiation Oncology,
Biology and Physics
. He is currently a visiting Faculty at MD Anderson
Cancer Center, and has recently been appointed as co-Editor-in-Chief
of
Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
, one of ESTRO’s newly
launched open access journals.
Pierre Blanchard