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Phillip M. Devlin, MD, FACR, FASTRO, FFRRCSI(Hon) is Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Brachytherapy in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dr. Devlin earned his medical degree at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1991 and completed his residency in Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, followed by a specialized fellowship in brachytherapy at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1996.   In addition to lecturing extensively both nationally and internationally, Dr. Devlin has more than 100 published manuscripts and book chapters, and is editor of the text, Brachytherapy: Applications and Techniques, now in its second edition. He is a past President of the Massachusetts Radiological Society and was previously a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). In 2008, he was named a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR), and in 2013 he became both a Fellow of ASTRO (FASTRO) and a Faculty of Radiology Honorary Fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (FFRRCSI[Hon]) and a Fellow of the American Brachytherapy Society. Dr. Devlin led two funded studies as part of the ACR’s Quality Research in Radiation Oncology (QRRO) project. His current research focus is on radioreponsiveness and gene expression in cutaneous lymphoma treated with brachytherapy. He continues to lead internationally in developing and deploying innovative brachytherapy techniques to expand the scope of practice, teaching and research.  

Dr. Marjory Jolicoeur studied at Université de Montréal for a an MD, PhD degree.  She founded Curietherapies in 2012, a non-profit organization that she still presides over today. A renowned radiation oncologist, she completed her residency at Université de Montreal in 1996, before completing a brachytherapy fellowship at the Centre Georges-François Leclerc located in Dijon (France). In 1997, she started working at the department of Radiation Oncology of Université de Montréal, where she still teaches. A mere two years later, she was appointed medical consultant for all planning, construction and equipment selection processes of the new Radiation Oncology department of Hospital Charles-Le Moyne. She innovates by equipping the department with a suite and a comprehensive image-guided brachytherapy program. As a brachytherapy specialist, she has special research interests in its application to pathologies such as breast, genitourinary and gynecologic cancers. Her main focus is on the development of image guided implant procedures, the use of MRI in brachytherapy and the precision delivery of conformal high dose rate brachytherapy. She also teaches brachytherapy nationally and internationally.  She is also a recipient of the Jean Roy  Brachytherapy Award of 2021. 

Alvaro A. Martinez, M.D. received his medical degree from Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. He completed a radiation oncology residency program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Following his residency, he became an Assistant Professor at Stanford University Medical School in Palo Alto, California. In 1981, he joined the department of Oncology at Mayo Clinic Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota where he achieved the position of Associate Professor. He was appointed Chairman of the department of Radiation Oncology at Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, Michigan in 1985 where he was a Professor of Radiation Oncology at Oakland University William Beaumont Medical school. For the past five years, he has been a Senior VP of Scientific and Clinical Strategy at 21st Century Oncology of Michigan, a division of Michigan Health care professionals. Taking advantage of his surgical training, Dr. Martinez achieved outstanding expertise in brachytherapy and he designed special applicators which are widely used for the treatment of patients with gynecological and other pelvic malignancies. He is a member of numerous national and international professional organizations and is highly regarded by his peers for his professional accomplishments. He was president of the Michigan Society of Therapeutic Radiology in 1989 and president of the American Brachytherapy Society in 1991. Dr. Martinez is certified in radiation oncology by the American Board of Radiology and was awarded a fellowship in the American College of Radiology. Dr. Martinez has been a member of several National Cancer Institute review committees. He has been an associate editor for many national and international medical journals, and has contributed to more than 340 articles in prestigious scientific medical journals. In additional, he has written and contributed to more than 45 chapters in textbooks.

Geetha Menon is a Senior Medical Physicist at the Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB and anAssociate Clinical Professor in the Department of Oncology, University of Alberta. She is a Fellow of theCanadian College of Physicists in Medicine (CCPM). Over the years, her clinical focus has been inbrachytherapy and women’s cancers. Her principal research interests are in gynecological, ocular, andprostate brachytherapy, which have resulted in many innovative research initiatives. She has been thelocal physics lead for the EMBRACE studies. In the last 10 years, she has received various grants andher multidisciplinary partnership has resulted in several peer-reviewed journal articles. She currentlyserves the Registrar on the CCPM Board. Dr. Menon is also an active member of the CanadianOrganization of Medical Physicists’ Women’s Committee and IDEA group.

Dr. Gerard Morton is a radiation oncologist at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre and an associate professor at the University of Toronto.  He has a clinical and academic focus in prostate cancer and brachytherapy, is program director of the University of Toronto Brachytherapy AFC training program, and is chair of the Royal College Brachytherapy AFC committee.  He co-chairs several ongoing multicentre clinical trials, is co-chair of the ASTRO Annual Meeting GU Track, and is North American Editor for Clinical Oncology.  He has published extensively on prostate cancer.   ...

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Dr. James Tsui is an Assistant Professor and Radiation Oncologist at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). He holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, a Medical Degree (MD), and a professional Master’s in Artificial Intelligence. His research interests focus on the intersection of machine learning and medicine, with the goal of bringing artificial intelligence into his oncology research and clinical practice.