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Apollo MoU with Vienna institute

In an effort to develop mutual interest through knowledge and experience, the Department of Radiation Oncology, Apollo Specialty Hospitals and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Applied Radiation Research at Donauspital, Vienna have signed an MoU.

Both Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Applied Radiation Research and Apollo Specialty Hospitals are leading institutions in their respective countries, and both hope to gain immensely through this knowledge sharing.

Commenting on the agreement, Preetha Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospitals, says, “With this collaboration, we at Apollo Hospitals seek to provide the best possible service to the patient through the benefit of common wisdom. This would also establish common guidelines for patient treatment as well as mutual adaptation of innovative practices.”

The agreement entails close collaboration on the following points:

1. Medical Physics:

• Quality assurance for treatment planning procedures especially in inverse treatment planning

• Quality assurance of treatment delivery especially for IMRT with Multileaf Collimator

2. Radiation Oncology:

• Assessment of treatment plan

• Definition of target volume

• Assessment of treatment result

• Patient’s follow-up in view of treatment outcome and side effects

The collaboration will include exchange of information via the internet, exchange of physicists and physicians and knowledge exchange programme through workshops and symposiums.

Says Dr Janos Stumpf, Administrator & Director, Research Oncology, Apollo Specialty Hospitals, “Radiation Oncology is a very complex specialty, which requires close co-operation of physicians, physicists and technical staff. Quality control and quality assurance are also important aspects of treatment. We look forward to this mutual collaboration which will only help us serve our patients better and pave the way for advanced healthcare.”

RR

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