Help Ukraine Group organized a delegation of 7 radiation oncologists and medical physicists at #ASTRO2023:
1. Ruslan Zelinskyi, Spizhenko Clinic, Kyiv
2. Serhii Brovchuk, Kyiv Regional Cancer Center, Kyiv
3. Zoia Shepil, Kyiv Regional Cancer Center, Kyiv
4. Yuliia Lozko, National Cancer Institute, Kyiv
5. Daryna Semotyuk, Lviv Regional Cancer Center, Lviv
6. Sofiia-Iryna Zaluska, Lviv Regional Cancer Center, Lviv
7. Lesya Mytsak, Transcarpathian Cancer Center, Ivano-Frankivsk
The first four attendees were also the speakers at the special #ASTRO23 session on Ukraine on Tuesday, October 3rd which ended in standing ovation. The delegation networked and advocated with the radiotherapy vendors requesting support for Ukraine, thanked the vendors supporting Ukraine during the war, attended educational and scientific sessions.
The ASTRO visit is also accompanied by 1 week to 1 month observerships at Stanford Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine, or Northwestern University, and 1-day visit to University of California, San Diego.
Loads of gratitude to ASTRO annual meeting organizational committee for free registration for the delegation and to Nova Ukraine, Stanford Radiation Oncology, Peace and Development Foundation for helping to fund the visitors’ travel.
