Tomas Kron
Tomas Kron was born and educated in Germany. After his PhD he migrated to Australia in 1989 where he has worked in a number of radiotherapy departments, last at the Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital as Chief Physicist. From 2001 to 2005 he moved to Canada where he worked at the London Regional Cancer Centre on the commissioning of one of the first tomotherapy units for 3 years. Since 2005 Tomas is principal research physicist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. He has an interest in dosimetry of ionising radiation, treatment verification, image guided radiotherapy and clinical trials quality assurance. He has co-authored a radiotherapy textbook and published more than 180 papers in refereed journals. He has academic appointments at Monash, RMIT and Wollongong Universities and was president of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) from 2009 to 2009.
Over the years Tomas Kron has maintained an interest in education reflected in more than 50 invited conference presentations, consultancies for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and involvement in workshops and training in Australasia. In this capacity he has organised a 5 day workshop on high dose rate brachytherapy in 2006 and two workshops on IGRT in 2008 and 2010. Tomas has organised several conferences and was convenor of the 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR) on May 6 to 9, 2013 in Melbourne.
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