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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