BIR Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting 2026 - Day Two
12 Feb 2026
Looking to the Future - Endorsed by ESTRO
This is a recording of the second day of the sixth BIR Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting.
This meeting brought together national and international experts in Radiotherapy and Oncology. This face-to-face meeting had plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow professionals and discussing the latest offerings from industry.
Topics include:
- Looking to the future - NHS 10 year plan
- New modalities
- Advanced practice/workforce
- Proffered papers
- Improving workflows
- Trials
- Patient experience
- Implementing advancing safer radiotherapy
- Adaptive Radiotherapy
- International collaboration
Chairs:
- Sarah-Jane Ketterer
- Dr Keith Langmack
- Shaista Hafeez
- UKHSA
Speakers:
- Jonathan Lane, Head of Radiotherapy Physics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Martin Buschmann, Medical Physicist, University Hospital Vienna/Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Micheal Pearson, Operational Lead for Dosimetry, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Virginia Marin Anaya, Clinical Scientist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Amy Hancock, Director of Medical Imaging, University of Exeter
- Dr Fay Manning, Lecturer, Department of Health and Care Professions, University of Exeter
- Jo McNamara, Rad Chat Co-Host/Senior Lecturer, Rad Chat/Sheffield Hallam University
- Mr Andrew Blakeman, BIR Honorary Treasurer
- Damian Parr, Head of Therapeutic Radiography Services, NHS Tayside
- Helen Best, Senior Clinical Radiotherapy Officer, UKHSA
- Cristiona Logan, Specialist Clinical Officer, Radiotherapy, UKHSA
- Carmel Anandadas, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Jo Patterson, Professor of Speech and Language Therapy, Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, University of Liverpool
- Professor Thomas Zilli, Head of the Radiation Oncology Department at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI - EOC), Bellinzona, Switzerland and Professor at Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland and at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Switzerland (PD)
- Dr Alexandra Stewart, Consultant Clinical Oncologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Royal Surrey County Hospital/University of Surrey, Guildford
- Professor Daniela Thorworth, Full Professor in Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Dr Alex Dunlop, Advanced Clinical Research Physicist The Joint Department of Physics, The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital
- Dr Nicola Thorp, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Vice President Faculty of Clinical Oncology, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Royal College of Radiologists
- Professor Neil Burnet, Senior Demonstrator in the Human Anatomy Centre at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Research Fellow at the Austrian particle therapy centre at MedAustron
- Dr Rob Chuter, Principal Clinical Scientist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, The Christie NHS FT and University of Manchester
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