Speakers

• Guy STORME

Guy Storme, Executive Secretary OECI, President Oncologic Center UZ Brussels, Head of Department of Radiation Oncology, Head of Cancer Research Unit

Guy Storme has his training in Radiation Oncology as well in Nuclear Medicine at the Jules Bordet Institute from 1973-1978. He has done basic research at the University of Ghent in the Laboratory of Experimental Cancer and Radiotherapy under the supervision of Prof. Marc Mareel studying the impact of drugs and radiation on the invasive process.
At the same time he started the build up of a new cancer center at the UZ Brussels. He build with his team in Radiation Oncology a department becoming leader in Image Guided Radiotherapy, being the only to have treated with the NOMOS (Peacock) system patients in Europe, having the first in Europe the Novalis Body system and the second in Europe with Tomotherapy. Actual he start the first worldwide with the Vero integrated imaging and positioning system tracking on line moving targets. He developed a cancer research unit in radiobiology and started a translational program based on radiobiology.
He had his PhD in 1987 and became full professor in Oncology and president of the Cancer Center. Meanwhile he became member of different international societies as AACR, ASCO, ESTRO, ASTRO, In the period 1996-1999 he was Vice-president of OECI, from 1999-2002 President and 2002-2005 Past-president. Afterwards he became Executive Secretary till today. He was scientific adviser at the Ministry of Health in Belgium, Scientific advisor at the Ministry of Science in Germany, at the FNCLCC in France, board member of the SFC (France), and different national and regional boards of Cancer Societies.

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