IPEM Heads of Radiotherapy Physics Meeting
Ketan Shah, Oxford University Hospitals

Ketan Shah, Oxford University Hospitals

Dr Ketan Shah is Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Head of Radiotherapy at Oxford University Hospitals and Clinical Lead for the NHSE H&N Cancer GIRFT Programme. He attended medical school in Cambridge and Oxford and trained in Oncology in the Royal Marsden and in the Oxford Deanery. He completed a DPhil in Radiobiology looking at imaging and biomarkers of cellular responses to radiotherapy. He spent a year at the Peter MacCallum cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia before returning to the UK as an NHS Consultant in 2014.

Kristoffer Petersson, University of Oxford

Kristoffer Petersson, University of Oxford

Kristoffer is a Medical physicist from Helsingborg, Sweden, and holds a M.Sc. (2009) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Medical Radiation Physics from Lund University, Sweden. Kristoffer enjoyed a Post-doc period (2014-2017) working on FLASH radiation at CHUV, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lately, he has worked as a clinical medical physicist (2017-2019) and started his own research group in FLASH radiotherapy (2017-) at Skåne University Hospital. Since 2019, Kristoffer is Group leader of the research group "Physics and Biology of FLASH Radiation" in the Department of Oncology.

Tom Whyntie, University of Oxford

Tom Whyntie, University of Oxford

Tom Whyntie PhD FHEA MIPEM is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Oxford's Department of Oncology. His current role applies his experience with particle physics, medical imaging, radiotherapy, data management, and clinical trials to departmental teaching. He is Director of Studies for the provisionally IPEM-accredited MSc in Medical Physics with Radiobiology course