Good Evening,
My name is Yong Cha and I am the new membership director for KASTRO. I would encourage everyone to join our facebook group and to post any relevant news on the facebook group page.
We have many exciting events coming up including our annual KASTRO meeting in Boston as well as KOSRO meeting in Seoul. As a member of KASTRO, I personally attended KOSRO meetings in Seoul for the past few years and I would encourage more KASTRO members to attend KOSRO meeting in Seoul, which is held annually in October (http://www.kosro.or.kr/bbs/?code=schedule). KOSRO does a great job in hosting KASTRO members!
ASTRO Newsletter
May 2016
Please Join our facebook group.
Our KASTRO and KOSRO meetings are coming up in both Seoul and Boston. Please submit your abstracts!
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS from your KASTRO team!!
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, 2016 at the Lotte Hotel in 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, Kore on October 16, 2016 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 KOSRO:
Same as the travel award to ASTRO and KASTRO except that junior faculty members who completed residency or fellowship programs after 6/30/2013 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/KASTRO2016. The travel award to the ASTRO/KASTRO 2016 meeting will be $1000 towards travel expenses and a certificate. The recipient will present the abstract at the KASTRO dinner meeting on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 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 before6/30/16 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 email me the abstract submission by Friday June 3rd, 2016. The award recipients will be notified by Friday June 17, 2016.
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
KASTRO Dinner Meeting 2016
The annual KASTRO dinner is in the planning stages in Boston, MA. If any of you have any suggestions for a venue near the convention center, please let us know.
KASTRO Dinner Meeting 2015
We had a great turnout at ASTRO meeting in 2015 in San Antonio at Rosario's. Photos are available on facebook link.
Dr Steven Oh from cleveland clinic spoke on "A Novel Nomogram for Predicting Distant Metastases after Lung Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early Stage Lung Cancer"
Dues
The following table is from our treasurer, Dr Nathan Kim, regarding KASTRO's financial status
We ask you to please support KASTRO by paying your annual dues membership for 2016. The dues amounts are as follows:
Board Members $200
Practicing members $100
Residents free
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.
Please send checks made payable KASTRO to:
Nathan Kim
New job openings
If anyone has job openings they would like to send out to the KASTRO membership, please email Yong Cha.
Membership
Please spread the word about KASTRO and the annual dinner among your friends and acquaintances. If anyone wants to join, just send them to my email.
KASTRO Leadership
President Sung Kim, MD
Secretary Sara Kim, MD
Treasurer Dong Kim, MD, PhD
Membership Yong Cha MD, PhD
Chairman of the Board Thomas Chung, 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)
Sincerely,
Yong Cha MD, PhD