Enhancing Safety & Advancing QA
Save the date: FRIDAY, 27 & SATURDAY, 28
FEBRUARY, 2026
The 15th installment of QADS returns in 2026, with a new European destination — Rome, Italy. Over two days, attendees will learn best practices and clinical insights from colleagues practicing worldwide, while earning continuing education credits.
Session topics will span:
- Challenges in Safety and Quality Control
- Optimizing Quality in your clinic
- Automation and AI
- New Treatment Modalities in Radiotherapy
2026 agenda coming fall 2025
8:45
2024 Program Introduction
Greg Robinson, M.Sc., CMD, RTT, Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical Company, United States
9:00
Keynote Presentation: ESTRO Initiatives to Improve Safety and Quality Throughout the Patient Treatment Course
Nuria Jornet, Ph.D., Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain
9:30
Developing a Voluntary Incident Reporting and Learning System and Defining Radiation Protection in Radiotherapy (ROSEIS)
Mary Coffey, RTT, Trinity College, Ireland
10:00
BREAK
10:30
Cybersecurity Risks: Experience and Lessons from a Hospital Cyberattack
Carla Cases, BSc, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain
11:00
Before and After: Standardization of Machine QA, with Updates from 4-Year Study on IC PROFILER for Dosimetry Tests
David Barbee, Ph.D., DABR, NYU Langone Health, United States
11:30
Moving Towards Process-based Radiotherapy Quality Assurance Using Statistical Process Control
Vysakh Raveendran, Ph.D., Advanced Center for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Hospital, India
11:40
Panel Discussion
Moderators: Jie Shi, Ph.D., and Michaël Claessens, Ph.D.
12:15
LUNCH
13:15
AAPM Task Group Report 307: Use of EPIDs for Patient-Specific IMRT and VMAT QA
Kyle Padgett, Ph.D., University of Miami Medical School, United States
13:45
IPEM Topical Report Guidance for the Clinical Implementation of Online Treatment Monitoring Solutions for IMRT/ VMAT
Simon Stevens, M.Sci., M.Sc., CSci, CMgr, DiplPEM, MIPEM, MInstP, ARCS, The London Clinic, UK
14:15
Validation and Quality Assurance of EPID Transit Dosimetry Algorithms
Marco Esposito, Ph.D., The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
14:45
Assessing the Impact of Adaptations to the Clinical Workflow and Identifying Head and Neck Cancer Patients Needing Adaptive Radiotherapy Using Transit In-Vivo Dosimetry
Evy Bossuyt, M.Sc., Iridium Netwerk, Belgium
15:15
BREAK
15:45
A Method for Monitoring Single Fraction Stereotactic Treatments with the EPID
Paul Doolan, Ph.D., German Oncology Center, Cyprus
16:00
Assessing In-Vivo 2D Image Analysis Sensitivity in Breast Cancer Treatments Using PerFRACTION
Maria do Carmo Lopes, Ph.D., IPO Coimbra, Portugal
16:15
Testing PerFRACTION Transit In-Vivo Dosimetry Ability to Detect Delivery Errors on a Clinical Spine SBRT Case
Fátima María Leo Martínez, M.Sc., Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain
16:30
Panel Discussion
Moderators: Jennifer Hamilton, M.E., DABR and Mary Coffey, RTT
18:00
Networking Reception
Scale Bar & Terrace
2026 agenda coming fall 2025
8:00
Al applications and QA of Al in Radiotherapy - Contouring, Pre-T QA and QA of FLASH
Michaël Claessens, Ph.D., Iridium Netwerk, Belgium
8:30
Looking to the Future of AI: How MDs Could Use AI to Write More Personalized Prescriptions/Carepaths
David Lindsay, Ph.D., Oncora Medical, Inc., United States
9:00
A Clinical Evaluation of the Performance of Five Commercial Artificial Intelligence Contouring Systems for Radiotherapy
Efstratios Karagiannis, M.D., Ph.D., KSGR, Switzerland
9:30
BREAK
10:00
Artificial Intelligence and RT Workflows
Pauline Maury, Ph.D., Gustave Roussy, France
10:30
Panel Discussion
Moderators: Greg Robinson, M.Sc., CMD, RTT and Michael Tallhammer, M.Sc., DABR
11:00
Clinical Application of Theranostics and How to Approach Patient QA
Robert Francois Hobbs, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, United States
11:30
Moving from CT-Sim to MR-Sim
Teo Stanescu, Ph.D., MCCPM, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada
12:00
Latest Developments and Novel Clinical Uses for SGRT
Michael Tallhamer, M.Sc., DABR, AdventHealth Parker, United States
12:30
LUNCH
13:15
A Novel Platform for the QA of Synchrony Real-time Tumor Tracking Radiotherapy Systems
Roland Teboh Forbang, M.S., Ph.D., DABR, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack Meridian Health, United States
13:45
Comprehensive QA Program in a MRI-LINAC System Using Sun Nuclear Tools
Matteo Galetto, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Italy
14:15
Panel Discussion
Moderators: Jie Shi, Ph.D. and Nuria Jornet, Ph.D.
14:45
BREAK
15:00
Understanding Solid State Dosimeters and Their Increasing Role in Medical Physics Quality Assurance Measurements
Wesley Culberson, Ph.D., DABR, University of Wisconsin – Madison, United States
15:30
A Hybrid Method for Patient Specific QA for SRS and SBRT Cases Utilizing 3D Secondary Dose Verification as a Screening Tool
Remy Manigold, DMP, DABR, Scripps, United States
16:00
Systematic Evaluation of Spatial Resolution and Gamma Criteria for Quality Assurance with Detector Arrays in Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Mark Chofor, Ph.D., Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical Company, United States
16:15
Novel Multi-Isocenter Accuracy Testing and Patient Specific QA for Gyroscopic Radiosurgery System
Carlos Rodrigues, M.Sc., Mercurius Health, Portugal
16:45
Individual Target Dose Evaluation for SIMT Using SRS MapCHECK and Independent Monte Carlo
Justus Adamson, Ph.D., DABR, Duke University, United States
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