Working group 2 Online Meeting

Published on 30/04/2021

Following the success of our last virtual meeting, we will be following it up with another meeting on the 9th June, 2021, at 3pm (Rome). Register here!

The aim of the meeting is to follow-up the discussion held during the last virtual meeting, focusing on standardization in hyperthermia therapy. During this meeting we will be engaging with other communities working towards the same objective.

Particularly, we will be having:

  • Prof. Stephan Bodis, from Kantonsspital Aarau, Switzerland, who will be talking about Standardization from the physician’s perspective.
  • Dr Luis Pulgarin from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),
  • Dr Dario Rodrigues from the Thermal Medicine Standards Committee;
  • Dr Hana Trefna from the ESHO technical committee.

If you would like to join the meeting you are kindly requested to Register here!

Meeting Agenda

15:00 – 15:10 Welcome by Maarten Paulides.

15:10 – 15:25 ASME: Standards definitions & how are established by Luis Pulgarin                                                 .

15:25 – 15:40 ASME: Lexicon & tissue properties, Translation to Hyperthermia and analysing current gaps by Dario Rodrigues.                                                      

15:40 – 15:55 ESHO tech committe: Current and future actions by Hana Trefna.

15:55 – 16:10 Standardization from the physician perspective by Stephan Bodis.

16:10 – 16:25 Break (Time to put forward your questions for discussion via chat).

16:25 – 16:50 Panel discussion moderated by Sergio Curto, Marta Cavagnaro and Gerard van Rhoon.  

16:50 – 16:55 Closing of the meeting.