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AWARDS
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EMMANUEL VAN DER SCHUEREN AWARD
ANN BARRETT
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Ann started her radiotherapy career in London and worked with
Professor Michael Peckham at the time when he and Emmanuel van
der Schueren set up ESTRO. She fostered her European links when
she worked with Ms.Bataini, Laugier and Gerbaulet in Paris.
She then returned to the Royal Marsden Hospital where she worked
until 1986 with a practice in lymphoma, testicular, breast and
paediatric cancers. She also developed a TBI schedule with a purpose
built machine for the new technique of BMT. She then accepted a
position as a Foundation chair in Glasgow, the second largest cancer
centre in the UK, where she remained for 16 years with a national
sarcoma practice and a laboratory programme with Tom Wheldon in
targeted radiotherapy before moving to Norwich as Deputy Dean of a
new medical school.
She is co-author of
Practical Radiotherapy Planning
, now in its fifth
edition,
Cancer in Children
, several Oxford oncology books and more
than 150 publications.
She was a long term member of the Education and Training Com-
mittee of ESTRO and President of ESTRO in 1997. In the UK she
was President of the Scottish Radiological Society in 1996, Dean of
the Royal College of Radiologists from 2002 to 2004, and a member
of many committees including those involved in the CHART and
START trials. She has held travelling professorships in Australasia
and Canada. She is Emeritus Professor of Oncology and has acted as
an advisor to the UK government on radiotherapy and NATO on the
acute effects of radiation.
Ann Barrett