Dear fellow KASTRO members, here is another version of the KASTRO newsletter. It is meant to keep us all up to date periodically on KASTRO. Remember that we also have a Facebook account (detailed below) that you all are welcome to join.
KASTRO Dinner Meeting
The annual KASTRO dinner is set for Tuesday Oct 20, 2015 at
Rosario's
910 South Alamo
San Antonio, TX 78205
Phone 210- 223- 1806
KASTRO Travel Awards
Please see below announcement from Secretary Sara Kim:
Dear Korean-American Radiation Oncologists,
I would like to invite submissions of abstracts for KASTRO's annual US resident/fellow travel award to Seoul, Korea for the Korean Society for Radiation Oncology (KOSRO) meeting on October 16, 2015 at the Lotte Hotel (Sogong-dong, Seoul). KOSRO's website is http://www.kosro.or.kr/
The travel award to the KOSRO meeting will be for $2000 towards travel expenses and a certificate. The recipient will present the abstract at the annual KOSRO meeting in Seoul, Korea on October NOT SURE OF DATE and submit a short essay on his/her visit to KOSRO. This essay will be posted on Korean ASTRO facebook page and KOSTROgram. If the recipient would like to spend a few days at one of the radiation centers in Korea, further arrangement may be made.
Eligibility for Travel award to KOSTRO:
Same as the travel award to ASTRO and KASTRO except that junior faculty members who completed residency or fellowship programs after 6/30/2012 and did the work as a faculty member are also eligible.
In addition, I would like to invite submissions of abstracts for KASTRO's annual US resident/fellow/junior travel award to ASTRO/KASTRO2015. The travel award to the ASTRO/KASTRO 2015 meeting will be $1000 towards travel expenses and a certificate. The recipient will present the abstract at the KASTRO dinner meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 6pm.
Eligibility for Travel award to ASTRO/ KASTRO
A resident or fellow of Korean ancestry currently in a radiation oncology training program in the U.S.A. Those who completed training before 6/30/15 are still eligible, if the work was done during the residency or fellowship program. The abstract should have been accepted for presentation (oral or poster) at this year's ASTRO or RSNA meeting and the applicant should be the first author.
Please circulate this email to other Korean American radiation oncologists you may know and also encourage them to join KASTRO.
Sincerely,
Sara H. Kim, MD
Secretary KASTRO
Dues
We ask you to please support KASTRO by paying your annual dues membership for 2015. Remember that the KASTRO dinner meeting is no longer sponsored by Varian and HDX (Korean counterpart of Varian) due to government regulations, so the financial viability of the KASTRO organization rests almost entirely on the support of its members. Your membership dues will not only be used to pay for your KASTRO dinner, but will also sponsor a resident physician to attend the KASTRO dinner program. KASTRO is able to not charge residents a membership fee due to the generosity of its members. Even if you are not attending KASTRO this year, we ask you to please pay your annual dues for the good of the organization at large.
Please consider sending your dues payment to treasurer Nathan Kim prior to the meeting. Alternatively, we will have a credit card swiper available at the annual KASTRO meeting at ASTRO, so you can also pay at the door prior to the KASTRO dinner.
New job openings
If anyone has job openings they would like to send out to the KASTRO membership, please email us and we’ll include in the next newsletter that will come out prior to ASTRO.
Membership
Please spread the word about KASTRO and the annual dinner among your friends and acquaintances. If anyone wants to join, please refer them to us and I’ll add to the roster. If you don’t want to be included in the newsletter or the KASTRO roster, just email me and we’ll take you off.
Also remember that Korean ASTRO is on Facebook! Look up Korean ASTRO and ask to join. Korean ASTRO is a closed group due to the fact that email addresses are shared. You can find updated information about the KASTRO meeting, or just look at pictures of many of our members so you know some of their names this year at the dinner.
KASTRO Leadership
President Thomas Chung, MD
President Elect Sung Kim, MD
Secretary Sara Kim, MD
Treasurer Dong Kim, MD
Chairman of the Board John Suh, MD
Board of Directors:
Chuck Chulyoung Cho, MD
Noah Choi, MD
Chung-Taik Chung, MD
Chul S. Ha, M.D.
Seung Shin Hahn, MD
Robert Y. Kim, MD
Yong Chan Ahn, MD, Ph.D. (ex-officio member)
Executive Committee:
John Suh, MD
Thomas Chung, MD
Sara Kim, MD
Julia Oh, MD
Warren Suh, MD (program committee chair)
Samuel Ryu, MD (by-laws committee chair)
Song Kang, MD (nominating committee chair)
Sung Kim, MD (President Elect, membership committee chair)
Sincerely,
Thomas Chung & Sung Kim