From the December 2015 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


Brewer has more than 30 years of radiation therapy experience, has a master’s degree in public administration and is the radiation therapy program director for the University of South Alabama in Mobile. Dr. Ravine has taught anatomy and physiology at the University of South Alabama for more than 10 years, and his work experience includes more than 20 years working in or directing clinical laboratory facilities in the public and private sectors.

Bru has degrees in medical technology and instructional design, as well as 21 years of experience in the clinical laboratory, including work in microbiology, clinical chemistry, instruction and supervision. Their study assessed whether appliances used to heat water for fabricating immobilization devices in the clinic carry microorganisms that present risk of disease transmission. Forty-two percent of surfaces tested positive for potentially harmful bacteria.


ASTRO Gold Medal
ASTRO’s Gold Medal, first awarded in 1977, is bestowed annually on up to three ASTRO members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of radiation oncology, including work in research, clinical care, teaching and service. Including the 2014 awardees, only 75 of ASTRO’s more than 10,000 members have received the Gold Medal award.
Candidates must be nominated by one active member of ASTRO and receive letters of support from two additional active members of ASTRO, detailing the nominee’s impact on the advancement of radiation oncology. Nominees may be from any of the scientific disciplines represented in ASTRO, including radiation oncology, biology and physics.

Carl R. Bogardus, Jr., M.D., FASTRO, has been an ASTRO member since he attended his first meeting of the American Club of Therapeutic Radiologists during the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting as a resident in training in 1960, and is professor, clinical director and vice chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. He is the only person to have served as both president of ASTRO (1989-1990) and the American College of Radiology (1991-1992).

He led countless meetings with policy leaders and colleagues to develop the process of care for radiation oncology services and the subsequent treatment planning, simulation, treatment devices, dosimetry calculations, and physics procedure codes that are billed today as separate and distinct clinical services. His concepts of care and reimbursement, as detailed in his “User’s Guide for Radiation Oncology,” provided the stepping stones that have created the documentation for many of the technical and scientific advances in the field. Bogardus was recognized as a Fellow of ASTRO in 2006.

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