Philip Poortmans Editor

Orit Kaidar-Person is radiation oncologist & the Head of Breast Cancer Radiotherapy Unit at Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, and senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is member of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) breast cancer faculty, of the educational faculty of FALCON-ESTRO (Fellowship in Anatomic delineation and CONtouring) and of the ESTRO-ACROP breast cancer focus group. She also is currently a foreign PhD student at GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands, focusing on improving radiation therapy outcomes of breast cancer patients after mastectomy, especially related to breast reconstruction. 

Icro Meattini is radiation and clinical oncologist consultant at the Florence University Hospital, and associate professor at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Biomedical Sciences “M. Serio” of the University of Florence, Italy. He is actively involved in ESTRO, EORTC, ESMO, ESO, and ESSO networks. Currently he is member of the steering committee of the EORTC breast cancer group and of the EORTC radiation oncology scientific council an d founder of the Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Group (COBCG) cooperative network. He is member of the ESTRO-ACROP breast cancer focus group and of the ESTRO breast cancer faculty.

Philip Poortmans is radiation oncologist at the department of radiation oncology of the Iridium Netwerk, Wilrijk-Antwerp, and associate professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His special interests include breast cancer and FLASH radiation therapy. He is former president of the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO) and of the European Cancer Organisation. He is actively involved in research activities of the the EORTC and is faculty member for breast cancer-related educational activities of ESTRO, ESSO, ESMO and ESO, including as course director for ESTRO’s breast cancer courses and chairperson of the ESTRO-ACROP breast cancer focus group.