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PROGRAMME AND EXHIBITION GUIDE |
AWARDS
DONAL HOLLYWOOD AWARD
MARCO VAN VULPEN
University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dr van Vulpen obtained his MD at the University of Amsterdam
and his PhD at the University of Utrecht, both in The Netherlands.
After graduation as a radiation oncologist he pursued a fellowship
at the Cross Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he participated in the Image-
guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (IGART) program within the Center
for Biological Imaging and Adaptive Radiotherapy.
In 2011 he was appointed full Professor and held his inaugural
speech entitled “the End of Radiotherapy”. Since 2013 he has been
chair of the Department of Radiotherapy at the University Medical
Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is clinical chair of the Center of
Image Guided Oncological Interventions at the Universitair Medisch
Centrum (UMC) Utrecht, where a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) linear accelerator is being developed. He is clinical
chair of the International Consortium, ATLANTIC, on the worldwide
clinical introduction of the MRI linear accelerator. He currently
serves as adjunct professor and faculty member at the Department of
Radiotherapy at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, Texas.
His major research interests include the development and clinical
introduction of different adaptive MRI guided oncological
interventions. He has published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed
journals.
Marco Van Vulpen