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Biological Effects Subcommittee (BESC)

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Activities
  • Address the needs of the Radiation Therapy community concerning understanding and modeling of the biological outcome of radiation therapy.
    • Including (but not limited to) effects of dose, dose rate, volume, time/fractionation, spatial fractionation, re-irradiation, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and other relevant clinical factors.
    • Review and manage technologies that use outcome model-based optimization and evaluation.
  • Educate the AAPM membership and members of the radiation therapy community concerning dependence of tumor control and treatment tolerances on dose, volume, time, and other relevant factors.
  • Recommendations and guidance for modeling methods appropriate for outcomes analysis.

 

 
By-Laws:Not Referenced.Rules: Not Referenced.
Standing?This is not a standing committee.
Approved Date(s):12/11/2007 - 12/31/2037
Committee Keywords: BESC
Chair

Shiva Das
Subcommittee Chair

2025 Roster

(dates shown below are start and end dates of position.)

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VOTING AppointmentsThere are 16 voting members.

up-to-dateShiva K. Das, PhD

1/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Subcommittee Chair
up-to-dateJoseph O. Deasy, PhD

7/24/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member

up-to-dateIssam M. El Naqa, PhD

1/1/2023 - 12/31/2025 Subcommittee Vice Chair
up-to-dateClemens Grassberger, PhD

1/1/2021 - 12/31/2026 Member

up-to-dateJimm Grimm, PhD

7/24/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member
up-to-dateAndrew Jackson, PhD

7/24/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member

up-to-dateJeho Jeong, PhD

7/20/2022 - 12/31/2025 Member
up-to-datePeter G. Maxim, PhD

8/5/2024 - 12/31/2027 Member

up-to-dateCharles S. Mayo, PhD

7/28/2022 - 12/31/2025 Member
up-to-dateMoyed Miften, PhD

7/31/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member

up-to-dateVitali Moiseenko, PhD

7/23/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member
up-to-dateReshma Munbodh, PhD

7/20/2022 - 12/31/2025 Member

up-to-dateYannick P. Poirier, PhD

1/1/2021 - 12/31/2026 Chair,  Working Group on Conformal Small Animal Irradiation Devices (ex officio)
up-to-dateManju Sharma, PhD

11/2/2023 - 12/31/2026 Member

up-to-dateMaria Thor

7/20/2022 - 12/31/2025 Member
up-to-dateWolfgang A. Tomé, PhD

1/1/2021 - 12/31/2026 Member
NON-VOTING AppointmentsThere are 0 non-voting members and guests.
HQ Team Appointed to CommitteeThere are 0 staff.



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