ESTRO 2022 reports: young corner Editor’s note - PDF Version

Dear young corner readers,

It was a treat to see so many of you attending the young track at ESTRO 2022, 6 – 10 May in Copenhagen. This year’s chairs, Anne Gasnier from France and Laura Mullaney from Ireland, put together an exciting programme with a teaching lecture and a symposium on Leadership. We had the honour to hear from the current president of the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) herself, Anna Kirby, about how to get involved in ESTRO. This was followed by a symposium on “growing your network” and the ever-successful speed dating (Figure 1)

Figure 1: Active discussions during the speed networking session. Participants exchanged contact details and social media accounts.

Unfortunately, lunches were missing for the “lunch” symposium and we apologise for the miscommunication and lack of food. But we were pleasantly reassured to hear participants say they liked the talks on “increasing the impact of your research” so much that they did not mind waiting a bit longer to go get a “smørrebrød” after the symposium.

The afternoon symposium covered “mobility for radiation oncology professionals” with presentations from all specialties. The final session was animated by Ludwig Dubois for the traditional quiz where both online and onsite attendees could test their radiation oncology and ESTRO knowledge, for the chance to win a free registration to an ESTRO course. The ESTRO journal editors-in-chief then took the stage to announce the winners of the Elsevier Young investigator Awards before an informal gathering on the gallery with well-deserved food and drinks!

For the yESTRO committee, this meant also a change of chair where we say a “big thank you” to Pierfrancesco Franco for the past years chairing our committee and supporting all our ideas. We are happy to see Steven Petit taking over and launching yESTRO into a new era. We encourage you to read more about the past and future of yESTRO from Pierfrancesco and Steven at this link >>>

Of course, young attendees were busy with all sorts of additional activities beyond the young track. Paul-Henry Mackeprang from Switzerland, travelled to Denmark with his family and tells us about his hectic schedule trying to follow as much clinical- and physics-related content as possible while enjoying some family time >>>.

Jessica Rashid, from the United Kingdom, tells us about her first experience chairing a session, her apprehension, at first, and pride in representing multiple underrepresented groups at the congress >>>. 

We are already looking forward to meeting your next year for ESTRO 2023 in Vienna, Austria! In the meantime, do not forget to check out the yESTRO website at >>> and to share your opinion on yESTRO activities via Opinion Panel at >>>. Please do also follow our brand-new twitter account @yESTROCommittee for updates on our initiatives and calls to participate in various projects.

Jenny Bertholet
jenny.bertholet@insel.ch

Bartłomiej Tomasik
Bartlomiej.Tomasik@io.gliwice.pl