Gynecologic Radiation Therapy (PDF)

years. She serves on national and international committees including the Gynecologic Cancer Intergroup and the Gynecologic Cancer Task Force for the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Christian Kirisits studied technical physics at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated 2001 as a Doctor of Technical Science (Dr. techn.). In the same year he got a staff position as medical physicist at the Department of Radiotherapy, Medical University of Vienna after working there as a research fellow before. The main field of research was experimental and Monte Carlo dosimetry for endovascular brachytherapy. After an additional thesis (Habilitation) in Medical Physics he became Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna. During the last years he focussed on all aspects of modern brachytherapy, especially image guided approaches for gynaecological radiotherapy. He is a member of the GEC ESTRO committee and working groups of GEC ESTRO (BRAPHYQS -Brachytherapy physics, GYN group). Beside teaching activities at the Medical University he was involved as teacher and organizer at various postgraduate courses including the Endovascular, the GYN, and the Image Guided Radiotherapy teaching course of ESTRO. His most recent appointments include the position as one of the coordinators for the revision of ICRU 38 and the EMBRACE trial.

Dr. Erickson is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is a Trustee of the American Board of Radiology and a past-president of the American Brachytherapy Society. She is a fellow of the American College of Radiology and serves as Vice-Chair for the ACR QRRO Cervix Committee, as well as on the ACR Standards and Accreditations Committee. She is a member of the RTOG Gynecologic Committee. Internationally, she has served on the GEC-ESTRO committee, participates in the EMBRACE Trial, and serves as co-chair of the Trans-Atlantic Image-based Brachytherapy Working Group.

Richard Pötter MD has been Professor and Head of the Department of Radiotherapy at the Medical University of Vienna/Vienna General Hospital since 1993. After graduation in medicine in Münster, Germany, he became diagnostic radiologist and radiation oncologist. He has been working continuously on imaging in radiotherapy since his "Habilitation" on this topic in 1989. His major clinical oncology areas have been paediatrics, prostate and gynaecology. He was president of the European Brachytherapy Group GEC ESTRO from 1999-2003. Since 2004 he has been coordinator of the European network for 3D image guided gynaecological brachytherapy (GynGECESTRO) where the international study EMBRACE was developed in which he is principal investigator since 2008. Richard Pötter is editor for brachytherapy in the "green" journal and also associate editor in the "blue journal". He has been chairman of the ESTRO committee for Education since 2006 (ESTRO school). The major focus of his activities in Vienna and abroad during the last decade has been on the development of gynaecologic radiation therapy linking the progress in imaging to the potential of radiotherapy, mainly brachytherapy.