Help Ukraine Group – HUG, American Brachytherapy Society with Swecare support, present the Modern Brachytherapy Course with ABS Experts for Ukraine! The course is spanning 3 months with 10 weekly sessions starting Oct 14th 2025 till Dec 16th 2025 mostly on Tuesdays, 20:00 Kyiv time.
144 participants from 30 RT departments across Ukraine registered for this course!
Needs Assessment Survey highlights:
Ukraine currently has 34 afterloaders (26 AGAT Co-60 without TPS, 8 modern Ir-192 afterloaders, and 4 manual), 7 of them non-functioning underscoring the critical need for modernization.
With this course, we aim to kickstart the modernization of brachytherapy practice across Ukraine. This will be followed by additional training with the BrachyTerra ESTRO endorsed GYN brachytherapy course, practical hands-on workshops, and observerships.
When: Weekly, Tuesdays, Oct 14th – Dec 16th at 20:00 Kyiv time
Format: Zoom, with English and Ukrainian subtitles
Instructors: Leading ABS experts
Course Highlights: Practical brachytherapy knowledge for various cancer types
Engaging discussions with international experts
Many thanks to American Brachytherapy Society, Mitchell Kamrava, all the participants and Swecare for support of this initiative.
Click on the entry in the table below to navigate to the Zoom recording of the lecture. The videos with Ukrainian subtitles are posted below.
Lecture | Date | Kyiv Time | Topic | Speaker(s) |
1 | 10/14/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Brachytherapy Clinical Indications and History | Phillip Devlin |
2 | 10/21/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Brachytherapy Physics and Technology | Peter Sandwall |
3 | 10/28/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Brachytherapy Treatment Planning | Dorin Todor |
4 | 11/7/2025 Friday | 20:00 | Skin HDR | Parag Sanghvi and Daniel Scanderbeg |
5 | 11/11/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Prostate HDR | Martin King and Ivan Buzurovic |
6 | 11/18/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Breast HDR | Bridget Quinn and Dorin Todor |
7 | 11/20/25 Thursday | 20:00 | GYN HDR | Beth Kidd and Thomas Niedermayr |
8 | 12/2/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Brain LDR | Yonatan Weiss and Vibha Chaswal |
9 | 12/9/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Lung LDR/HDR | Albert Chang and Sang-June Park |
10 | 12/16/2025 Tuesday | 20:00 | Eye plaque LDR | Firas Mourtada and Wenyin Shi |