BIR Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting 2022

31st March - 1st April 2022   (GMT+01:00) Europe/London

Registrations now open!

IN-PERSON EVENT ONLY
Thursday 31 March – Friday 1 April 2022
Venue: etc.venues St Paul's, London, EC1A 4HD 
CPD: 14 CPD credits (7 credits per day)


This is the second meeting for the BIR, which brings together speakers from around the world and national experts too, to share experiences and expertise in a wide range of aspects for today’s cutting-edge radiotherapy and oncology. The event will cover the latest techniques, technologies, methods and hot-topics will be discussed in this comprehensive meeting taking place over two days. Renewed opportunities aplenty for networking with fellow professionals and discussing the latest offerings from manufacturers.

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Parallel streams will be used to maximise the sessional opportunities, together with expert plenary talks focusing this year on
• Immuno-radiotherapy
• Debate – X-rays or MR for on-treatment adaptive radiotherapy
• Panel Discussion – Role development and extension in modern radiotherapy and oncology

Keynote talks will headline the main sessions, and topic areas will include:
• Adaptive Radiotherapy
• MR Informed Radiotherapy
• SRS/SABR/Oligomets treatments
• Engineering/IT/infrastructure
• Manufacturers presentations
• Patient voices
• Advances in Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
• Particle and other innovative treatments
• Regulation and Legislation
• Practice Changing Clinical Trials
• In practice discussions – Geometric Uncertainties, Radiobiology, On Target Two
• Optimising Resources - re-use/re-cycle/sustainability
• Worldwide Challenges in Radiotherapy

Expert teaching sessions will be held at the end of day one, and the start of day two, to provide targeted educational opportunities in areas such as Adaptive Radiotherapy, Challenging Radiotherapy Planning Cases and Brachytherapy.

Proffered material is once more welcomed in the form of oral presentations, ePosters and short video clips. All-in-all, the best in radiotherapy and oncology will be featured at this exciting meeting!

Who should attend?  
You! If you’re working in radiotherapy and oncology, then this meeting is designed for you – and that is for all disciplines. The BIR is rapidly becoming the home of ALL professionals involved with Radiotherapy and Oncology and is open to all. So, clinical oncologists, radiographers, physicists, service managers, Linac and IT engineers, dosimetrists, manufacturers, department heads…all are welcome, and there should be something for everyone.

Five Reasons to attend:
• Enhance your knowledge in the cutting-edge fields of clinical practice
• Refresh your understanding in key areas
• Hear expert opinion and offer your own
• Network with colleagues and peers, manufacturers and industry reps
• Share your own research and development work
 

Exhibit at BIR Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting 2022 

SOLD OUT! The 'BIR Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology meeting 2022' event offers sponsors an excellent opportunity to reach out to a large number of multidisciplinary medical professionals in a relaxed virtual environment along with an opportunity to choose a speaker of your choice to speak at the event. Please view our exhibiting and sponsorship brochure for the full list of opportunities!

To express your interest, please contact us at conference@bir.org.uk 

Registration fees:
FULL EVENT – STANDARD
BIR Plan 1 member £295
BIR Plan 2 / Trainee member £220
BIR Retired / Student member £110
Non-member £450

ONE DAY ONLY – STANDARD
BIR Plan 1 member £185
BIR Plan 2 / Trainee member £125
BIR Retired / Student member £65
Non-member   £295


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Venue

Speakers

Sponsors

Advanced Accelerator Applications

Advanced Accelerator Applications, S.A. (AAA), a Novartis company, is an innovative medicines company developing targeted radioligand therapies and precision imaging radioligands for oncology. We are committed to transforming patients’ lives by leading innovation in nuclear medicine. AAA currently has over 1,000 employees working across 31 sites in 12 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US). The company also has global manufacturing capabilities with 19 facilities in eight countries, and six research & development sites. For more information, please visit: https://www.adacap.com/.

AMG Medtech Limited

AMG Medtech offer specialist consultancy and distribution of medical technologies and AI software across the UK and Ireland. AMG Medtech curate Oncology and Radiotherapy solutions to address the daily problems you need solving, providing software applications that break new ground in capability, efficiency and usability. In AI autocontouring we bring the best, Limbus Contour, which has been created by Oncologists for Oncologists. Limbus Contour features an extensive selection of organ contours (OARs) that work out of the box. All your data will be safe and secure within your local network using only standard CPU hardware to deliver all your contouring protocols. 20mins setup and you’ll be saving time on every patient plan. Radformation has one primary goal: to deliver Intelligent Automation in Cancer Care. With the cancer burden growing faster than Radiation Oncology departments can manage, it is imperative that solutions are made available to clinics which deliver clinical benefits for patients while improving day-to-day operations for staff. In under 6 years since the company’s founding, Radformation has enabled thousands of clinics to treat more patients, more quickly, while improving quality, through automating multiple phases of the process. MIM Software Inc. provides practical imaging solutions in the fields of Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Neuroimaging, and Cardiac Imaging. MIM have been maestros in multimodality image processing for radiotherapy for years, and now AMG is pleased to partner with them to bring you the most capable and intuitive software for radiation oncology and internal dosimetry. MIM Software offer workstation, mobile, locally hosted and cloud-based platforms. AMG Medtech and our partners are looking forward to meeting you in person.

Bayer Healthcare

Bayer’s Radiology business is well placed to be the partner of choice in helping NHS trusts to address the many challenges faced today including the increasing need for governance to demonstrate best practice and improving patient care within increasing financial constraints. With market-leading contrast media and power injector systems, Bayer is able to offer innovative patient care and with the addition of its informatics platform, it can support radiology departments in driving protocol standardisation and easily accessible audit data that enable departments to meet further challenges faced around contrast and radiation dose management. 0118 2063999 www.radiology.bayer.co.uk

Brainlab

Brainlab is a digital medical technology pioneer founded in 1989 and headquartered in Munich. The company employs more than 2000 people in 25 offices around the globe. Brainlab serves physicians, medical professionals and their patients in over 6000 hospitals in 121 countries. Brainlab creates software-driven medical solutions that digitize, automate and optimize clinical workflows for neurosurgery, spine, trauma, craniomaxillofacial (CMF), general and vascular surgery as well as radiotherapy and radiosurgery. Core products center around surgical navigation, radiotherapy, digital operating room integration, and information and knowledge exchange. The Brainlab open framework operating system will allow third parties to develop medical applications to further advance the field of spatial computing and mixed reality. Brainlab is dedicated to creating an impact in healthcare. The company connects opportunities from emerging digital technologies to transform healthcare at scale and help improve the lives of patients worldwide. For more information, please visit https://www.brainlab.com/

Elekta

For almost five decades, Elekta has been a leader in precision radiation medicine. Our more than 4,000 employees worldwide are committed to ensuring everyone in the world with cancer has access to – and benefits from – more precise, personalized radiotherapy treatments. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Elekta is listed on NASDAQ Stockholm Exchange. Visit elekta.com or follow @Elekta on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. A pioneer in precision radiation medicine, Elekta develops and supports a range of advanced linear accelerators (linacs) that enable physicians to deliver precise, rapid and patient-specific radiotherapy for individuals with cancer. Elekta’s line of high definition digital accelerators includes the latest generation Versa HD™ – a system designed to treat a spectrum of tumors throughout the body using both conventional and highly sophisticated techniques – as well as the clinically-proven and widely used Elekta Synergy® and Elekta Infinity™ linacs. Elekta Unity is a state-of-the art MR-Linac that is defining a new standard for personalized radiation therapy based on real-time high resolution anatomical and biological MRI at the point-of-care. Unity combines a Philips high-field 1.5T MRI scanner with a best-in-class 7MV linear accelerator and breakthrough online dose replanning software that are fully integrated to enable adaptive radiotherapy and real-time target monitoring. MOSAIQ® Plaza is a comprehensive suite of digital tools that works seamlessly with Elekta radiotherapy systems to provide the foundation for intelligence-driven, value-based healthcare. MOSAIQ Plaza’s smart data center connects healthcare professionals to patients through every step of their journey to ensure efficient, standardized daily practice. Bringing people and information together, MOSAIQ Plaza allows departments to continuously improve their processes, reduce costs and touch more patients’ lives.

GE Healthcare Ltd

GE Healthcare is a leading provider of medical imaging, monitoring, and life science technologies. GE Healthcare enables precision health in diagnostics, therapeutics and monitoring through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services to help providers, researchers and life sciences companies in their mission to improve outcomes for patients around the world.

GenesisCare

GenesisCare is the UK’s leading independent provider of advanced cancer diagnostics, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and Theranostics. With a philosophy to treat the whole patient not just their cancer, wellbeing and exercise medicine are part of GenesisCare’s personalised care programme and are proven to deliver improved patient outcomes.

Guerbet Laboratories Ltd

Guerbet is a worldwide leader in medical imaging that has been supporting healthcare professionals since 1926. Guerbet offers a wide range of pharmaceutical products, medical devices, software and services for diagnostic and interventional imaging to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients. A pioneer through more than 90 years in the field of contrast media with over 2,7000 colleagues globally. Guerbet is continuously innovating with 10% of revenue dedicated to research and development across four centres in France, Israel and the United States.

Healthcare Supply Solutions

Healthcare Supply Solutions was set up in April 2021, we are a distributor specialising in SRS, SBRT & SGRT Radiotherapy, we also offer a number of leading products in Urology and Oral Health. We are the exclusive distributor for CDR Systems, Anage, Miropos Medical, Medical Targeting Technologies & Forward Science in the UK & Ireland. As well as the specialist equipment Healthcare Supply Solutions also have a range of consumable items used in everyday practice in Radiotherapy such as Mouldcare, CE Marked Eye Shields, CT Markers to name a few. Come visit us at https://www.healthcaresupplysolutions.co.uk

MIS Healthcare

Delivering world-class medical imaging solutions, MIS Healthcare has built its reputation for excellence by providing high end imaging equipment, supplied by renowned manufacturers. MIS Healthcare has remained diversified, supplying a variety of premier products and solutions everything from, Digital Radiography, Ultrasound, Radiation Oncology Systems and PACS Solutions.

MVision AI

MVision AI is the pioneer of guideline-based AI segmentation, GBAIS™, radiotherapy software. Using our deep learning system, we help you automate organ-at-risk contouring, including lymph nodes, to streamline your cancer treatment planning. Robust and GDPR compliant, we bring the highest quality radiotherapy planning SaaS solution for your oncology department.

Oncology Imaging Systems Ltd

Oncology Imaging Systems Ltd is an established provider of medical devices centred around cancer diagnosis and treatment. We specialise in innovative products and solutions for diagnostic imaging, radiotherapy treatment, and medical physics applications. Visit us at the BIR Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting and find us online at www.oncologyimaging.com @OncologyImaging

Philips Healthcare

Enabling better health and better care at lower cost Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving people`s lives across the health continuum - from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Applying advanced technologies and deep clinical and consumer insights, Philips delivers integrated solutions that improve people`s health and enable better outcomes. Partnering with its customers, Philips seeks to transform how healthcare is delivered and experienced. The company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. www.philips.co.uk/healthcare

PTW-UK Ltd

PTW designs, develops, manufactures and distributes high quality dosimetry and quality control equipment mainly for use in the medical field, especially in radiation therapy, diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine. We have a global network of subsidiaries including here in the UK and ROI. Our products are well known throughout the world and are recognized for their workmanship and high level of quality. Founded in 1922, PTW celebrates our centenary this year.

RaySearch

Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers is shaping the future of Healthcare. As a leading medical technology company headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, Siemens Healthineers enables healthcare providers worldwide through its regional companies to increase value by empowering them on their journey towards expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, improving the patient experience, and digitalising healthcare. Siemens Healthineers is continuously developing its product and service portfolio, with AI-supported applications and digital offerings that play an increasingly important role in the next generation of medical technology. These new applications will enhance the company’s foundation in in-vitro diagnostics, image-guided therapy, and in-vivo diagnostics. Siemens Healthineers also provides a range of services and solutions to enhance healthcare providers’ ability to provide high-quality, efficient care to patients. For more information and latest product line visit www.siemens-healthineers.co.uk

Varian a Siemens Healthineers company

A new, unifying, more intelligent array of oncology solutions matters now more than ever. Together with Siemens Healthineers, we're dedicated to connecting all care to realize a world without fear of cancer. We'll achieve that goal through Intelligent Cancer Care. We're shaping the future of oncology with integrated, connected care pathways designed to drive efficiencies and deliver world-class treatment across the cancer continuum to increase impact where it matters most: patients. We're continually broadening the scope of our advances in Intelligent Cancer Care to ensure that you and your patients receive what you need to fight cancer. For over 70 years, we've been committed to creating simpler, fully integrated, and more intelligent ways for you to fight cancer. We're a global leader in developing and delivering multidisciplinary cancer care solutions through our strategy of always putting cancer patients at the center of our thinking. While we’re proud of our past successes and committed to present-day treatment, we’re not content to stop there. Our goal is to help more patients beat cancer every year going forward. Our vision is: a world without fear of cancer. www.varian.com

Xiel

Xiel is a specialist distributor of medical technologies in UK and Ireland. We work with global leading solution providers; therefore, continuously improving efficiency and quality for our customers. Xiel exclusively represent Sun Nuclear, CIVCO, CIRS, Gammex and MVision to name a few. Please visit the booth today to meet our radiotherapy experts.