Ocular Subcommittee
(The OPTIC Subcommittee was renamed to Ocular Subcommittee in August 2023)
Co-Chairs:
Jan Hrbacek, Jens Heufelder, Helen A. Shih
Charges:
- To bring professionals of this highly specialized field together and share experience
- To map the status of ocular proton therapy worldwide
- To seek consensus and standardize our clinical procedures
- To address obsoleteness of our facilities on the community level
- To define standards in treatment planning and address discontinuation of Eyeplan
- To develop propose and collaborate in clinical trials
- To collaborate on physics aspects
- Assemble team with names hardest to spell
Recent publication:
Mishra K, Afshar A, Thariat J, Shih H, Scholey J, Daftari I, Kacperek A, Pica A, Hrbacek J, Dendale R, Mazal A, Heufelder J, Char D, Sauerwein W, Weber D, Damato B, Practice considerations for proton beam radiotherapy of uveal melanoma during the COVID-19 pandemic: PTCOG Ocular experience, Advances in Radiation Oncology (2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2020.04.010
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