2019 World Championship Reflections and “Top 50” List
Post-Event Reflections
Congratulations to all the brave and energetic professionals who participated in the 2019 World Championship event.
What an event it was! We had hundreds of people working during their chosen shifts in the 24-hour window when the dedicated ProKnow DS hub was open for submissions. Not only did competitors have to get familiar with this new mode of competition (ProKnow DS), but they had to contour some critical anatomy (six organ-at-risk structures) then design optimal treatment plans meeting some very difficult metric objectives. They did all of this with the clock ticking to create a sense of urgency, as a large portion of the overall composite score (20%) was based on efficiency/speed of getting the work done and final plan submitted.
We heard from many participants — including past winners — that this was by far the toughest plan study yet. We tried to “take it up a notch” this year to combine contouring and planning skills, as well as distribute interactive results for all to see. We know that we have more room to improve for future plan studies, but we’ll keep improving if you keep competing and giving feedback.
Awards and “Top 50” List
Awards Video
We published an awards video soon after the event, and you can find it here to see the top placings per category and top 5 overall.
Top 50 List
The following table shows the list of the top 50 participants based on total composite score. Achievement points (for the ProKnow Achievement System) will be added in the coming weeks so that your resumé reflects your participation and, when applicable, your high performance.
Note: Mobile device users will need to use their finger to scroll horizontally to see all of the columns in the table.
| Overall Place | Name(s) and Institution | Composite Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simon Heinze, Medical Physicist SSRMP Dr. Markus Glatzer, Attending Physician Kantonsspital St.Gallen Switzerland |
92.96 |
| 2 | Richard “Able” Shores III, MS, DABR, CMD Prisma Health, South Carolina United States |
92.92 |
| 3 | Tso Gary Ka Yu St. Teresa’s Hospital Hong Kong |
92.88 |
| 4 | John (Yuan Q.) Wei, CMD Raysearch Laboratories |
92.82 |
| 5 | Yik Shing Cheung, Matt St. Teresa’s Hospital Hong Kong |
92.80 |
| 6 | Drew Granatowicz, MS, CMD Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE |
92.42 |
| 7 | Vanessa Magliari Varian Medical Systems |
91.01 |
| 8 | Timothy Hancock Kantonsspital Aarau Switzerland |
90.84 |
| 9 | Jonathan Stenbeck, M.S. Prisma Health, South Carolina |
90.55 |
| 10 | Daniel Papworth Genesis Care Queensland Australia |
90.52 |
| 11 | To Wing Mok St. Teresa’s Hospital Hong Kong |
90.34 |
| 12 | Ming Yan Lai | 90.05 |
| 13 | Man Ying Cheung | 89.98 |
| 14 | Chung Yin Mak, Philip St Teresa’s Hospital Hong Kong |
89.94 |
| 15 | Laura O’Connor Calvary Mater Hospital, Newcastle |
89.75 |
| 16 | Alex Whittington Self Regional Healthcare |
89.67 |
| 17 | James “Chris” Henry, CMD Willis Knighton Cancer Center |
89.09 |
| 18 | Dennie Fransen RaySearch Laboratories |
88.51 |
| 19 | Murali Govindaraj | 87.83 |
| 20 | Phil Bowen Agnesian Cancer Center/SSM Health |
86.72 |
| 21 | Annelie Johansson RaySearch Laboratories |
86.13 |
| 22 | Camilla Grindeland Boer Turid Husevåg Sulen Haukeland University Hospital Norway |
86.02 |
| 23 | Anthony Magliari Jennifer Breunig Varian Medical Systems |
85.92 |
| 24 | David Stewart Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia |
85.88 |
| 25 | Angela Locke B.S., R.T.(T), C.M.D. Cory Heal Banner University Medical Center Tucson |
85.24 |
| 26 | David E Cummings Texas Center for Proton Therapy |
84.25 |
| 27 | Amber Shrewsbury, CMD Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL |
84.11 |
| 28 | Kenny Tiffany CMD, RT(T) McLeod Regional Medical Center |
83.54 |
| 29 | Kristaps Palskis Latvia Oncology Centre |
82.88 |
| 30 | Scott Senick, MS, DABR David Littlejohn, CMD Varian Medical Systems |
82.18 |
| 31 | Boopalan Balaji Mukesh Kumar HCG Hospitals, Jaipur India |
81.13 |
| 32 | Brian Neal ProCure Proton Therapy Center |
81.06 |
| 33 | Li Kai Leung, Alex St. Teresa’s Hospital Hong Kong |
81.00 |
| 34 | Robert Hammond Ed Bender Mercy Health Regional Cancer Center Janesville, WI |
80.89 |
| 35 | Lyndal O’Toole Lifehouse at RPA Australia |
80.56 |
| 36 | Thomas Krieger University Hospital Wuerzburg, Dept. of Radiooncology Germany |
80.33 |
| 37 | Mahendran Harikrishnan HealthCare Global Enterprises Limited India |
80.15 |
| 38 | Rolland Julien Institut Paoli Calmettes – Marseille / CH Gap France |
79.62 |
| 39 | Lai Mun Yap | 79.56 |
| 40 | Cherith Logan Northern Ireland Cancer Centre Ireland |
79.39 |
| 41 | Guinement Lucie Anais Stefani Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine France |
79.04 |
| 42 | Magdalena Ferre-Jallon ICO, Angers France |
78.64 |
| 43 | André Abreu Mariana Paranhos Alvarenga |
78.20 |
| 44 | Ryan Ramsburg R.T. (R) (T) (CMD) Holzer Health System |
77.30 |
| 45 | Savino Cilla Anna Ianiro Fondazione Di Ricerca e Cura Giovanni Paolo II – Campobasso |
76.83 |
| 46 | Bruce Ha Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Australia |
76.41 |
| 47 | Dalibor Lojko Eva Mrazova Nemocnica Komarno Slovakia |
75.81 |
| 48 | Xuanfeng Ding Beaumont Health, Proton Therapy Center |
75.51 |
| 49 | Adam Shulman Suparna Halsnad |
75.39 |
| 50 | Jessica Caselli, CMD Northside Hospital |
75.39 |