Are you interested in starting a thermal oncology service at your cancer center?
Do you currently offer hyperthermia but would like more training?
Are you interested in increasing your center's revenue stream?
All of these questions will be answered, plus hands-on training in superficial, interstitial, and deep regional hyperthermia, alongside the thermal medicine community's most experienced hyperthermia experts. Whether you are a physician, physicist, RT, nurse, or practice manager, you will benefit from the experience of this two-day intensive course.
Developed by the world-renowned University of Maryland, attending this CME credited program will ultimately benefit your patients.
Program held on October 18-19th 2019 at the University of Maryland and Maryland Proton Center. Use this link to download the program flyer. Space is limited to 24 students and we are expecting it to fill quickly.
- This semi-annual course will be the first of its kind in the U.S. to provide practice guidelines and practical training to national and international thermal therapy practitioners, including
- Radiation Oncologists
- Medical Physicists
- Radiation Therapists
- Medical Oncologists
- Oncology Residents
- Students
- Surgical Oncologists
- Oncology Fellows
- Nurses
Over the past decade, there has been a significant advancement in the field of thermal therapy, an adjuvant cancer therapy that sensitizes tumor cells to both radiation and chemotherapy. With increased knowledge and training, clinicians will be able to provide a less invasive form of radiation to their patients.
Theoretical aspects of thermal therapy will be presented in a lecture format with a question and answer session. Several cases will be reviewed to explain the different approaches to treat different treatment sites. Small groups will facilitate in-depth training of practical guidelines for thermal therapy treatment delivery and will practice the treatment delivery in terms of software and hardware in experimental phantoms.
Attending practitioners will be made aware of combining thermal therapy with the different forms of radiation treatment and will benefit from a formal training course that will provide one day of lectures and one day of practical training that will cover reviewing clinical cases and using thermal therapy equipment.
Lectures and simulations will be held at two locations (walking distance):
Maryland Proton Treatment Center
(MPTC) 850 W. Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.mdproton.comUniversity of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC)
Department of Radiation Oncology
22 S. Greene Street Baltimore, MD 21201
www.umms.orgSUPERFICIAL INTERSTITIAL DEEP REGIONAL 
BSD-500 BSD-2000
Course Agenda - Day 1
| 7:15 am | Breakfast & Opening Remarks |
Dr. Zeljko Vujaskovic |
| 7:30 am | How to establish a thermal oncology program | Dr. Zeljko Vujaskovic University of Maryland |
| 8:15 am | Clinical workflow, documentation, and reimbursement of hyperthermia therapy |
Erika Maynor University of Maryland |
| 8:55 | Break | |
| 9:05 am | Practice guidelines for superficial hyperthermia therapy | Dr. Jennifer Yu University of Maryland |
| 9:50 am | Practice guidelines for interstitial hyperthermia therapy | Dr. John Hayes Gamma West Cancer Services |
| 10:35 am | Practice guidelines for deep hyperthermia therapy | Dr. Jason Molitoris University of Maryland |
| 11:20 pm | Physics, planning, and execution of MW superficial thermal therapy | Dr. Paul Stauffer Thomas Jefferson University |
| 12:05 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Physics, planning, and execution of MW interstitial hyperthermia therapy | Dr. Marianna Guerrero University of Maryland |
| 1:45 pm | Physics, planning, and execution of RF deep hyperthermia therapy | Dr. Dario Rodrigues University of Maryland |
| 2:30 pm | Review of clinical cases | All |
| 5:15 pm | Tour of the Maryland Proton Center |
Dr. Matthew Witek |
| 5:45 pm | Reception at MTPC |
Course Agenda - Day 2
| 7:15 am | Breakfast at MPTC (Group 1) |
| Breakfast at MPTC (Group 2) | |
| 8:00 am | Practical workshop rotation – Break into groups 1 & 2 |
| 9:30 am | Break |
| 9:45 am | GROUP 1 Location: MPTC DTT Room Module 1 - Deep hyperthermia therapy practical course -Dr. Dario Rodrigues, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD |
| GROUP 2 Location: UMMC Edge Module 2 - Superficial/interstitial hyperthermia therapy practical course -Dr. Mariana Guerrero, Scott Hill, RT, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD; Dr. Paul Stauffer, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA |
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| 11:15 am | Group 2 travels to MPTC |
| 11:15 am | Lunch at MPTC |
| 12:15 am | Group 1 travels to UMMC |
| 12:30 pm | GROUP 1 Location: UMMC Edge Module 2 - Superficial/interstitial hyperthermia therapy practical course -Dr. Mariana Guerrero, Scott Hill, RT, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD; Dr. Paul Stauffer, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA |
| GROUP 2 Location: MPTC DTT Room Module 1 - Deep hyperthermia therapy practical course -Dr. Dario Rodrigues, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD |
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| 4:00 | Closing Session at MTPC |
