Treatment Planning with Ethos & MR-Linac

The third COMP Career Catalyst session of the 2025/2026 year is open for registration! Join for an insightful seminar on 'Treatment Planning with Ethos & MR-Linac':

Date: Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

Time: 8:00 - 10:00 AM PT (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET) 

Location: Virtual (Zoom)

Register Here: https://tinyurl.com/4t5xx93z

This two-hour live demo session will provide a concise walkthrough of adaptive planning workflows, beginning with an adaptive planning case and followed by an on-couch adaptive session. Dr. Becker and Dr. Poulin will present perspectives from Ethos and MR-Linac systems, highlighting how plans are initialized, how key parameters are selected, and practical tips for navigating each phase of the planning process. The session will include a live Q&A.

• Dr. Nathan Becker is the Regional Medical Physics Leader at BC Cancer in Kelowna as well as Adjunct Professor at University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus.  He completed his PhD at the University of Calgary and residency through the University of Toronto.  Dr. Becker’s research focuses on image-guided radiation therapy, quality control, and automation.  He has a special interest in adaptive radiation therapy, and led the installation of a Varian Ethos unit at BC Cancer – Kelowna. He is currently the adaptive lead in Kelowna and also a member of AAPM's TG-395, developing recommendations for the safe clinical implementation of CT-guided adaptive radiotherapy systems.
• Dr. Eric Poulin is a clinical medical physicist at CHU de Québec – Université Laval. He received his M.Sc. in imaging from Sherbrooke University in 2011 and his PhD in Medical Physics from Université Laval in 2015. He completed his residency at CHU de Quebec – Université Laval in 2017 and CCPM certification in 2018. Dr. Poulin is also an associate professor at Laval University; he has participated in the CAMPEP graduate program since 2016 and has served on the Board of the Association Québécoise des physicien(ne)s médicaux cliniques (AQPMC) since 2018. He is involved in three main research tracks : 1) brachytherapy, 2) MRI and 3) MRgRT. He is CHU de Québec – Université Laval’s lead physicist for MRI in radiology, the MR-Linac Consortium, was responsible for the integration of the MRI in the radiation oncology department, and is involved in the integration of the Unity in clinical practice. Dr Poulin has research grants with Varian, Elekta and Siemens. He is mentoring graduate students and residents. He has 25 peer-reviewed papers and 45 refereed abstracts at national and international meetings.

Important:

To ensure the security of our Zoom sessions, all participants are required to register using an institutional email address. Registrations made with non-institutional emails will be removed from the session. If you do not have an institutional email but would like to attend, please contact Fletcher (fletcher.barrett@ucalgary.ca) and Alaina (alainagiang.bui@mail.utoronto.ca).

See you there!

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