Thomas Rockwell Mackie

Thomas “Rock” Mackie has a BSc in Physics (1980) from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD in Physics (1984) from the University of Alberta. He was a Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2014 and since is an emeritus professor. He was made an Honorary Member of the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) 2010, He has been awarded the Coolidge Gold Medal from the AAPM (2014), the Gold Medal from ASTRO (2019) and the John Mallard Award for Innovation from the IOMP (2019) and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is a commissioner of the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) as well as the Vice-Chair of its Board. Rock Mackie has a long entrepreneurial career both as an academic and since retiring as a professor. He is best known for the Pinnacle, a radiation therapy treatment planning system, and TomoTherapy, a CT-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy company. He is a co-founder of Leo Cancer Care, which is developing upright radiotherapy. He is a co-founder of Asto CT, the developer of the first weight-bearing CT scanner for horses. Leo Cancer Care and Asto CT are subsidiaries of Centaur Medical and Dr. Mackie is the Chairman of the Board. Rock Mackie is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Linectra, a company developing a scalable electron beam metal advanced manufacturing system. He is a board member of Shine Medical Technologies which is developing medical isotopes using fusion and fission nuclear reactions as well as Cosylab, a global software consulting company in scientific discovery and medicine.

Dr. A E Nahum

From 2004 until his retirement in October 2015 Alan Nahum was Head of (Radiotherapy) Physics Research at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) near Liverpool UK and Visiting Professor, Physics Department, Liverpool University. He completed his PhD on Theoretical Radiation Dosimetry at Edinburgh University in 1975. Between 1979 and 1985 he was a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Umeå (Sweden) and then moved back to the UK to join the Radiotherapy Physics Research group at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH), Sutton and London UK; Steve Webb and he created a quasi-mechanistic model of tumour control probability - the ‘Marsden’ TCP model. This model and various NTCP models were incorporated into the BIOPLAN software written by post doc. researcher Dr. Beatriz Sanchez-Nieto. Short spells as ‘visiting scientist’ followed at Fox-Chase Cancer Centre (Philadelphia), Reggio Emilia (Italy) and Copenhagen University hospital. In 2004 he joined Clatter bridge Cancer Centre (near Liverpool UK) to work on the radiobiological optimisation of radiotherapy treatment planning. In 2006 he set up a 4-day (ESTRO-endorsed) course on Radiobiological Modelling (given annually until his retirement in 2015). Together with postdoctoral researcher Dr. Julien Uzan, the DVH-based Bio Suite software was created; BioSuite computes the tumour dose 'isotoxically' (i.e. for fixed user-chosen NTCP) as a function of the number of fractions.Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics - Theory and Practice (co-edited with Philip Mayles and Jean- Claude Rosenwald) appeared in 2007 (with an updated 2 nd Edition in 2022). In 2015 he and Don Chapman published Radiotherapy Treatment Planning - Linear-Quadratic Radiobiology (CRC Press 2015). He has (co-)authored close to 200 publications, divided between papers in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in books, and papers in conference proceedings. Under his supervision 18 students have gained their PhD.

Suresh Rana, PhD, DABR

Assistant Vice President & Chief of Medical Physics Lynn Cancer Institute, Boca Raton Regional Hospital Baptist Health South Florida
Dr. Suresh Rana is an Assistant Vice President and Chief of Medical Physics at the Lynn Cancer Institute in Boca Raton, Florida. He has extensive clinical and research experience in proton and photon therapy, including leadership roles in commissioning proton therapy systems. Dr. Rana has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and presented at leading international conferences such as PTCOG, AAPM, and NAPT. His current research work focuses on the DynamicARC proton therapy, LET-guided optimization, and adaptive treatment workflows.

T.S.Kehwar

T.S.Kehwar, MD, PG Dip, Ph.D., D.Sc. DABR is currently working as a Professor of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, United States. He is having membership of total 6(six) numbers of professional bodies like AAPM, ASTRO, ICRETT etc.He is the recipient of ‘Frank Ellis Medal for 2008’ by the Royal College of Radiologists on his outstanding research work. Including that he has received 5(five) numbers of Award from various professional bodies. He has (co-)authored close to 150 publications, divided between papers in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in books, and papers in conference proceedings. Under his supervision 6 students have gained their PhD and supervised 7 students for their thesis as partial fulfilment of MD (Radiotherapy and Oncology) degree.

Vanessa Panettieri

Vanessa Panettieri PhD is an accredited Senior Medical Physicist currently working at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre with 20 years of experience in Radiation Oncology, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University and Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne (Australia). Prior to moving to Australia in 2010 Vanessa has worked as Research Medical Physicist at the Karolinska Hospital in Sweden and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in the UK, focusing on treatment planning calculations in the context of SBRT and biologically-based clinical trials. Vanessa has contributed to more than 45 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and her current research interests are in predictive modelling, automated planning and advanced imaging for treatment individualisation.

Dr. Md Akhtaruzzaman

Dr. Md Akhtaruzzaman is the Chief Medical Physicist and Radiation Safety Officer at Evercare Hospital Chattogram, Bangladesh. He holds a PhD in Medical Physics from the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland. With over 15 years of clinical, academic, and research experience, Dr. Akhtaruzzaman has made significant contributions to radiotherapy planning, dosimetry, radiation safety, and medical physics education. He currently serves as President of the Bangladesh Medical Physics Society (BMPS), Education Coordinator of the South Asia Centre for Medical Physics and Cancer Research (SCMPCR), and Chair of the Education and Training Committee of the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP). He is a reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals and has authored multiple publications in leading scientific journals. He actively participates in regional and global training initiatives, and his leadership in organizing international conferences and fostering medical physics education reflects his commitment to advancing precision radiotherapy and strengthening medical physics capacity in developing regions