"We Probably Wouldn't Have You, but Its Nice That You Volunteered"

The Accelerators co-hosts Drs. Matt Spraker and Simul Parikh hang out over lunch and discuss a potpourri of #RadOnc current events!

We cover ASTRO’s ROCR policy proposal, Dr. Sameer Keole's ASTRO presidential campaign and engagement on Student Doctor Network, and the recent dysphagia optimized IMRT trial.

Then, Simul hypothesizes about the future of radiation oncology under case rate payment models.

We close with some more thoughts about proton therapy inspired by Dr. Mark Storey's latest piece.

Here are a lot of links to things we discussed on the show:

• The Moto ROKR 
• Accreditation Programs by the ACR, ACRO, and ASTRO
• ASTRO ROCR Policy Page 
• Register for the ROCR Town Hall this Friday, July 21 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
• What Big Medicine Can Learn from the Cheesecake Factory by Atul Gawande
• Out.Of.The.Basement with Beckta, MD: The Code Bundling Conundrum: A Medicare Misadventure (the saga of 77280-77290 and 77301)
• ASTRO Strategic Plan
• Nutting et al., Dysphagia Optimized IMRT
• Kamran et al., Esophagus-Sparing IMRT
• Oncora.ai
• Common Sense Oncology
• The Accelerators Podcast: Mobilize the Canadians! A Workflow Episode
• Protons 101 by Mark Storey, MD

Podcast art generously donated by Dr. Danielle Cunningham. Intro and Outro music by Emmy-award winning artist Lucas Cantor Santiago.

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