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PROGRAMME AND EXHIBITION GUIDE |
AWARDS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
MARY COFFEY
TCD School of Radiation Therapy St James’s Hospital
Dublin, Ireland
Mary spent her working life improving the quality of care given to
cancer patients through high-level education for Radiation Therapists
(RTTs) and raising safety awareness. She led the development of
the degree programme in Radiation Therapy in Ireland and was
head of the Division of Radiation Therapy in Trinity College Dublin
until 2012. She was chairperson of the project groups responsible
for the development of ESTRO European curriculum for RTTs, the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Handbook for the
Education of Radiation Therapists and the ESTRO Benchmarking
document for RTTs. She is chair of the ESTRO project
Best Practice in
Radiation Oncology: a Project to Train RTT Trainers
now in its eighth
year.
She has been active in health economics having been a member
of the expert group reporting on radiotherapy services in Ireland
which resulted in a major development of radiotherapy services in
the country, a member of the IAEA group on staffing and currently
a member of the ESTRO Health Economics in Radiation Oncology
(HERO) group.
She has been interested in risk management and safety in radiother-
apy for many years, is a founder member of the Radiation Oncology
Safety Information System (ROSIS) aimed at sharing information on
incidents and near incidents, and is the current chair of the Radiation
Oncology Safety Committee.
Mary established the RTT committees of the EORTC and ESTRO and
is still active in the ESTRO RTT committee. She is a member of the
ESTRO Board.
Mary Coffey