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De Los Santos, Hugo Recognized by ASTRO

By Siteman Communications |
De Los Santos And Hugo

Two WashU Medicine professors of radiation oncology – Jennifer De Los Santos, MD, and Geoffrey Hugo, PhD – have been named fellows of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

ASTRO counts 10,000 members worldwide, including physicians, physicists and cancer biologists, whose work advances care, education, professional development and research in the radiation oncology field. Only 541 of ASTRO’s members have been named fellows since the program began in 2006.

This year, De Los Santos and Hugo are among 43 members to receive the ASTRO Fellow (FASTRO) designation. They will be recognized Sept. 30 at an awards ceremony during ASTRO’s 67th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

“These distinguished leaders embody ASTRO’s core principles of excellence, innovation and unwavering dedication to improving patients’ lives through radiation oncology,” said Howard M. Sandler, MD, chair of the ASTRO Board of Directors. “On behalf of ASTRO, we celebrate their elevation to FASTRO status and their meaningful contributions to cancer care.”

De Los Santos and Hugo are affiliated with Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, where De Los Santos treats patients at the Head and Neck Tumor Center. Her research interests include the development of paradigm-shifting treatment approaches across several cancer sites, and translational work to define populations who may successfully proceed with these approaches.

Hugo is vice chair of the Medical Physics Division in the Department of Radiation Oncology at WashU Medicine His research interests include image-guided adaptive radiotherapy particularly for lung cancer, image registration and analysis, and the use of machine learning in radiation oncology.

They join other recently named fellows, including WashU Medicine professors and radiation oncologists Clifford Robinson, MD, and Julie Schwarz, MD, PhD, who were appointed last year. Radiation oncologist Jeff Michalski, MD, MBA, the Carlos A. Perez Distinguished Professor at WashU Medicine, is the immediate past chair and a past president of the ASTRO Board of Directors.