PTCOG ECR Webinar Series: Emerging Research and Funding Acquisition – Part 2

🌟 New Mini-Series: Emerging Research and Funding Acquisition

To kick off the year, we are launching a new mini-series highlighting a cutting-edge research topic currently shaping the field, or a speaker who has recently secured funding, offering practical, first-hand advice on navigating funding mechanisms around the world.

In this session, Dr. Katie Lichter and Dr. Chiara Paganelli will present on:

Environmental sustainability and equity of cancer care

Image-guided radiotherapy

… and share real, actionable guidance on securing competitive research funding.

1. Katie Lichter

Dr. Katie Lichter received her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2019 and her Doctor of Medicine from Loyola University Chicago in 2020. She completed her Radiation Oncology residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2025 and is now an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, as well as a Clinical Instructor at UCSF.

Dr. Lichter’s numerous awards and fellowships include serving as an Energy Health Fellow with the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative, a Climate Health Organizing Fellow with the Harvard/Cambridge Health Alliance, and a Fellow in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (HHS OCCHE). Her work focuses on environmental sustainability, climate resilience, and improving the quality and equity of cancer care.