Providers and Researchers Collaborate to Mitigate the Impacts of Wildfire on Cancer Care
Posted: January 29, 2025Most recently, wildfires in Southern California have presented unprecedented challenges for cancer patients and their health care providers. Amid the chaos, oncology teams have demonstrated remarkable resilience and unwavering commitment, ensuring the continuity of care for their patients under the most difficult circumstances.
ASTRO Committee Fair – Stop on by!
Posted: September 11, 2024Are you interested in learning about how ASTRO Councils are structured and how you can get more involved with ASTRO committees? Well grab a cup of coffee and stop on by! New this year, ASTRO is hosting a Committee Fair during the Annual Meeting to answer these and other volunteer opportunity questions!
What’s in Store for Early Career Rad Oncs at ASTRO24
Posted: August 28, 2024With ASTRO 2024 just around the corner, the committee has planned programming to take place in the Early Career and Mentoring Lounge and as part of the regular Annual Meeting program. Learn more about the work of your Early Career Committee and this year’s Annual Meeting highlights specifically catered to the early career attendee.
Volunteering Makes ASTRO Stronger
Posted: May 15, 2024President-elect Sameer Keole, MD, FASTRO, encourages members to think of how one can volunteer for the field. Dr. Keole shares a myriad of concrete ways within ASTRO that we can give our time and effort to share knowledge, inspire change and help improve patient care through education, clinical practice and the advancement of science.
The Journey to ASTRO Fellowship
Posted: July 19, 2023Beth Erickson, MD, FASTRO, Chair of ASTRO's Fellows Selection Committee highlights the prerequisites for consideration and what the selection committee looks for in candidates for FASTRO designation.
Introducing ASTRO’s Women in Radiation Oncology Affinity Group
Posted: April 12, 2023The chair, co-chair and ASTRO staff liaison of ASTRO's new Women in Radiation Oncology Affinity Group introduce the groups structure and goals with the broader community of radiation oncologists.
Making the Most of Your ASTRO Membership
Posted: April 5, 2023ASTRO Member benefits are always expanding, so we thought we would take a moment to list many of the free and discounted resources available to ASTRO members. Consider this your 2023 ASTRO membership “cheat sheet.”
Finding Radiation Oncology – How Three Childhood Friends Found Each Other and the Field
Posted: December 21, 2022Most recently, radiation oncologists Rohan Katipally, MD (PGY-5), Aneesh Pirlamarla, MD (PGY-4), and Nishant Shah, MD (PGY-5), convened at the 2022 ASTRO Annual Meeting. But their story begins much earlier, over 15 years ago as middle schoolers in South Brunswick, New Jersey.
A Call to Support Ukrainian Radiation Oncology Practitioners in Fight against Two Evils: Cancer and War
Posted: August 17, 2022The Help Ukraine Group was created by a group of oncology practitioners to help connect with cancer providers in Ukraine and establish a feedback loop of determining their needs and providing support. Here, they share the work underway and the immediate needs of the Ukrainian radiation oncology practitioners.
Breaking the Cycle of Stigmatizing Parental Leave
Posted: April 20, 2022Our first child was born in the summer of 2018. It had been an arduous road to get to that point, but we were ecstatic at the arrival of this tiny little girl who came screaming into the world. My husband Eric, a professor of physics, was amidst his summer semester and covertly disappeared into our rainy bubble of chaos, laughter, tears and precious few hours of sleep. I soon became convinced that parenthood was a conspiracy — how had I not realized how difficult this would be?
