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ESTRO AWARDS
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HONORARY MEMBER AWARD
Brian O’Sullivan
Princess Margaret Hospital
Toronto, Canada
Brian O’Sullivan is a Professor in the Department of Radiation
Oncology and in the Department of Otolaryngology / Head and Neck
Surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds the Bartley-
Smith/Wharton Chair in Radiation Oncology in the Department of
Radiation Oncology at the Princess Margaret Hospital, University of
Toronto. He received his medical degree from the National University
of Ireland at University College Dublin in 1976, and completed
internship and general internal medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital in
Dublin, and a fellowship in medical oncology, and a residency and
clinical fellowship in radiation oncology at Princess Margaret Hospital,
Canada.
Professor O’Sullivan is the immediate past-Chair of the Head and
Neck Oncology Committee of the Canadian Clinical Trials Group
(CCTG) and current co-Chair of the US National Cancer Institute
(NCI) Head and Neck Steering Committee of the Coordinating Center
for Clinical Trials, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP). He is
the recipient of numerous international awards, and research grants.
He has published almost 350 peer reviewed papers, more than 50
book chapters, and written or edited six oncology textbooks. He is a
Commissioner, International Commission on Radiation Units and
Measurements (ICRU). He is a member of the TNM Committee of the
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Chair of the UICC
Prognostic Factors Sub-Committee, Editor-in-Chief of the UICC
Manual of Clinical Oncology, and the UICC liaison to the American
Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) for head and neck cancer, and bone
and soft tissue sarcoma. His interests include sarcoma and head and
neck cancer.
Brian O’Sullivan