"In the clinic, I make a difference one patient at a time. But if you change policy, if you write guidelines or a cogent editorial, you can make a difference thousands of patients at a time," Zietman said. "This is what I learned from ASTRO having been given the opportunity to shape and influence policy."
When asked what drew him to the specialty, Zietman is quick to thank the mentors, including clinicians and scholars in both the U.S. and the U.K., who supported his career and, as he says jokingly, "have a lot to answer for." Zietman earned a medical degree from the University of London, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University. He completed multiple residencies and fellowships, including internal medicine at the Middlesex and Westminster Hospitals in London, radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and then clinical oncology at the Middlesex and Mount Vernon Hospitals back in London.
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