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General Interest
Volume 12 No 3
I
June 2016
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Congratulations to
Prof Jim Denham
OAM
Congratulations to
A/Prof Sandra Turner
ESTRO Honorary Membership
Prof Jim Denham was awarded a Medal
of the Order of Australia in the 2016
Australia Day Honours for service to
medicine, and to medical research.
Research…a privilege
and a pleasure for Jim
“It was a massive honour to receive
an OAM for my research efforts,”
said Prof Jim Denham. “However it
must be pointed out that research is
almost never a one-man show and
my collaborators and research teams
have played enormous roles in my
achievements, as has the support of the
institutions I work for and belong to.”
When it came to developing an interest
in research Prof Denham could not help
following the example set by both family
members and professional mentors
at the Middlesex and Mount Vernon
Hospitals.
See page 15 for a full article on Prof
Denham’s research career.
At the recent ESTRO35 meeting in
Turin, Italy, A/Prof Sandra Turner was
awarded Honorary Membership of the
European Society of Radiotherapy and
Oncology (ESTRO) for ‘Exceptional
Contribution to Radiotherapy and
Oncology’.
Honorary Membership awardees
are either non-European radiation
oncologists or other radiation
professionals, or European medical
specialists from other disciplines who
are deemed as having made major
contributions to oncology.
The award was presented by ESTRO
past-President, Prof Vincenzo Valentini,
and immediate past-President,
Prof Philip Poortmans, following a
symposium featuring talks by the three
2016 awardees. Sandra’s presentation
was entitled “Evidence-Based Medical
Education: Radiation Oncology’s
Forgotten Foundation”.
In Prof Vincenzo’s introduction, he
mentioned Sandra’s contributions to
ESTRO’s educational developments
and her radiation oncology advocacy
work through Targeting Cancer as
reasons for her receiving the award.
Sandra has been instrumental in
formalising the educational and
scientific collaborations between
RANZCR and ESTRO resulting in two
MOUs being signed between the
groups over recent years. She has
also established a productive global
collaboration in radiation oncology
education (GRaCE) linking leaders
in education and training in several
European countries through ESTRO
with those in Australia, New Zealand
and Canada.