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Justyna Magdalena Waskiewicz

Bolzano

Summary

Ability to relate to people of different nationalities and cultures based on personal and work experience. Ability to communicate clearly and precisely, respond to specific requests from clients and/or the referent user based on constructive relationship building abilities and extensive professional experience. Due to the continuous advances within the Radiation Oncology profession and ongoing professional development, ability to make valid scientific and innovative contributions to the Department and the profession at large.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Head-Neck RT Treatment Manager

Radiotherapy Service
01.2018 - Current
  • Attained first level high specialist accreditation in management of patients with head and neck cancer.
  • Responsible for introduction, development and innovation of about 80 radiotherapy treatments of head and neck tumors pro year in Department of Radiotherapy .
  • Responsible for development of internal protocols and PDTA company, innovations and studies in field of radiotherapy treatments of head and neck tumors.
  • Responsible for radiotherapy treatments in Tumor Board ENT in multidisciplinary corporate environment.
  • Responsible for renewing AIOCC Certification (last 2023) for radiotherapy treatments in head and neck cancers.
  • Collaboration in cancer research study head and neck with IEO in Milan and ENT department of Alto Adige Health Agency.
  • Development of Auto-Contouring Protocol - Radiotherapy -Adaptive Radiotherapy (ART) protocol development

Doctor in Radiation Oncology

Radiotherapy Department
02.2019 - 07.2019
  • In-depth study of radiotherapy techniques, planning and evaluation of mixed radiotherapy plans protons and photons in head and neck cancer treatments.
  • Participation in multidisciplinary ENT Tumor Board with enhancement of experience in case evaluation clinicians.
  • Toxicity management in proton and photon treatments in hospitalization regime.

Doctor in Radiation Oncology

Radiotherapy Department at the University of Innsbruck
11.2017 - 03.2018
  • Planning, management and refinement of VMAT-IMRT techniques in head and neck cancers
  • Participation in multidisciplinary ENT Tumor Board
  • Toxicity management in radio-chemotherapy treatments in field of head and neck tumors.

Professor at High School of Health

Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
01.2014 - Current

Professor in integrated course of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine 11 at Faculty of Medicine and Surgery “A. Gemelli ” – Degree course in Medical Radiology Techniques, for Imaging and SSD Radiotherapy: MED/36.

Tutor

Health Authority of the Alto Adige
01.2014 - Current
  • Tutor in training of medical students who have chosen to participate in internship at Radiotherapy Service.

Responsible for Urological Radiotherapy Treatments

Radiotherapy Service
02.2012 - 07.2022
  • Responsible for radiotherapy treatments in Tumor Board of Urological Tumors (multi-disciplinary Board).
  • Co-PI in prostrate cancer research studies in collaboration with IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and National Institute of Tumors, Milan.
  • Development and introduction of hypofractionated protocol in prostate cancer.

Doctor in Oncology Radiotherapy

Health Authority of the Alto Adige
02.2012 - Current

Doctor in Oncology Radiotherapy

Pio XI Treatment Centre
01.2011 - 01.2012
  • Acquisition of experience in care, planning and autonomous management of patients suffering from tumor diseases.
  • Acquisition of experience in cranial and extracranial SBRT treatments.

Doctor Specialising in Radiotherapy Oncology

Health Authority of Policlinico Umberto I
01.2007 - 01.2011
  • Acquisition of formative experience in care and management of various tumors throughout body
  • Management of chemotherapy treatments and their toxicities in context of concomitant cancer treatments
  • Acquisition of experience in indication, planning and application of endocavitary brachytherapy
  • Management of hematological and pediatric neoplasms with acquisition of experience in Total Body Irradiation (TBI)

Education

Radiotherapy Oncology

Policlinico Umberto I
Rome
2011

Medical Medicine And Surgery

University "La Sapienza"
Rome
2016

Skills

  • Operational effectiveness in both corporate and inter-agency environments, including multicultural settings
  • Innate empathic predisposition to relationship building with all patients, clients and stakeholders
  • Proven ability to make valuable contributions to team activities, including achievement of common objectives
  • Ability to motivate and support colleagues within highly stressful workplaces
  • Ability to cooperate synergistically and with absolute attention to professional updating (in both medical and patient relationships)
  • Ability to communicate with clarity and in transparent and effective ways
  • Ability to exploit innate ability to analyze and problem solve to ideate creative and effective solutions to both minor and more serious problems
  • Ability to synthesize and elaborate appropriate plans of action
  • Accurate, careful and diligent execution of duties and tasks in order to achieve quality end results without sacrificing operational speed

Vocational Training

  • 2005 -2006: Internship at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Polyclinic Umberto I, Rome
  • 2003 -2005: Internship at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology focusing on in-depth analysis of imaging techniques – CT, Ultrasound, MRI and Interventional Radiology, Polyclinic Umberto I, Rome

Continuing Education

  • 2015: Course on Sterotassi – Negrar
  • 2019: Laryngeal cancer – Milan
  • 2020: ESTRO course on contouring of OAR in patients with head and neck cancer
  • 2020: ESTRO delineation workshop on head and neck cancer
  • 2021: Hot topics in Cervical-cephalic oncology; CUP – nasopharynx, therapeutic algorithms and immunotherapy
  • 2021: 31 Residential Course in Modern Radiotherapy, Innovative treatment and patient compliance
  • 2021: Collaborative research and its tools: State of the art and future prospects
  • 2021: Telemedicine and multidisciplinary approach in the management of cervical-facial district tumors
  • 2021: Advanced thyroid cancer in the era of precision medicine
  • Annual ESTRO course
  • Annual AIRO course
  • Annual/Biannual ICHNO course
  • 2022: Modern Radiation Oncology: mutidisciplinarity in the era of omics - Rome
  • 2022: Technologic Innovations in Radiotherapy- Rome
  • 2022: Course on contouring of squamous cell skin tumors of head and neck - AIRO
  • 2022: Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders: state of the art and a roadmap for research- Brescia
  • 2022: 68Ga-PSMA PET-CT - Trento
  • 2023: Modern radiotherapy of prostate cancer - Bolzano
  • 2023: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma: local disease management - FAD AIRO
  • 2023: Minor Salivary Gland Tumors: a mouthwatering contouring workshop - AIRO
  • 2023: 10th European Congress on Head and Neck Oncology - Lisbon
  • 2023: From guidelines to the diagnostic- therapeutic path - course GIMBE- Bologna
  • 2023: Cranial nerves imaging - course - Rovereto
  • 2023: Odyssey in the skull base spaces - course - Verona
  • 2023: XIV Theoretical-practical course of radiological anatomy of head and neck - Rovereto

Affiliations

  • - AIRO member
  • - ESTRO member
  • - ESMO member
  • - FIL member
  • - Member AIOCC
  • Since 2016 active member of LILT (Lega Italiana per la Lotta against Cancer) in Bolzano where I participate as a doctor in the conferences, drafting information brochures, drafting articles on cancer prevention and I organise events of awareness for cancer prevention.

Languages

Italian
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Polish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Advanced (C1)
English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Russian
Elementary (A2)

Registration

2007-2013 – Enrolment in the Register of Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists of Rome n° M55814

From 2013 – Enrolment in the Register of Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists of Bolzano n° 03728

Speaker

  

  • 2019: Stand per Technik und Perspektiven in Bereich der Kopf-Nacken-Tumoren: Mundhole, Speichedrusen und Schidrusen, Bolzano
  • 2023: Modern Radiation Therapy in Head to Neck Tumours, Bolzano
  • 2023: "Minor Salivary Gland Tumor: a mouth-watering contouring workshop" - course FAD AIRO

Scientific responsibility

  

  • 2023: Modern Radiation Therapy in Head and Neck Tumours, Bolzano
  • 2024: Highlights on oropharynx tumors: multidisciplinary to improve outcomes

Publications

  

  • 2009: ‘Radiotherapy after breast reconstruction’ – AIRO
  • 2010: ‘External beam and radiotherapy and fractionation schemes with BRT HDR in the treatment of cervical cancer in stage Ib e II sec.FIGO’ – AIRO National Youth Congress
  • 2010: ‘The adjuvant therapy in the esocrine pancreas cancer – outcome of concomitant chemoradiation therapy treatment based on standard clinical volume’ XX AIRO Congress, Tumori
  • 2017: Objective – the aim of this study was to thoroughly analyse patient-reported acute intestinal toxicity (IT) from whole-pelvis RT delivered by means of modern IMRT techniques (IM-WPRT) – Abstract ESTRO 2017, Vienna
  • 2017: ‘Quality of life in the first year after RT for prostate cancer: results from a prospective observational trial’, EMUC 2017
  • 2017: ‘Acute intestinal toxicity patient-detected by IMRT pelvic irradiation in the radiation treatment of prostate cancer’. Results of an observational study on 313 patients’. XXVII AIRO National Congress, Rimini
  • 2018: ‘The bowel syndrome after whole pelvis RT for prostate cancer: acute symptoms and quality of life’. Poster at Congress ESTRO 37 – European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology, 20-24 April
  • 2018: ‘Patient reported urinary symptoms and 1-2 year anxiety and depression after post-prostatectomy RT’. Poster at the ESTRO Congress 37, European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology, 20-24 April
  • 2018: PO-0826: ‘Factors affecting self-reported, long-term (1-2 yrs) urinary incontinence from post-prostatectomy RT’. Poster, Congress ESTRO 37, European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology, 20-24 April2018: ‘Haematological toxicity after whole pelvis irradiation – results of a longitudinal observational study’. Poster, Congress ESTRO 37, European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology, 20-24 April
  • 2018: ‘Factors affecting self-reported, long-term (1-2 yrs) urinary incontinence from post-prostatectomy RT’. Poster Discussion at 33rd Annual Congress EAU 18 – European Association of Urology, 16-20 March, Copenhagen
  • 2018: ‘Hematologic toxicity after whole pelvis irradiation: results of a longitudinal observational study, April 2018, Radiotherapy and Oncology 127: S332-S333
  • 2020: ‘Comparison of self-reported acute urinary incontinence in patients treated iwht adjuvant or salvage IMRT’ – Abstract ESTRO 20
  • 2020: ‘Predictors of urinary incontinence 2 years after post-prostatectomy radiotherapy: evidence of dose and ractionation effects’ – Frontiers 2020
  • 2020: ‘Self-reported urinary incontinence from radiotherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer. Effect of RT intent’. EUR Urol Suppl: 16(10): 2672
  • 2020: ‘Longitudinal analysis of patient-reported urinary incontinence in the first 2 years after post-prostatectomy RT’. Frontiers 2020
  • 2021: ‘Palliative short-course surface-image guided radiotherapy combined with checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic merkel cell carcinoma’. Abstract AIRO 2021
  • 2022: ‘E tempo di risparmiare l’irradiazione del lembo linguale nei pazienti affetti da carcinoma localmente avanzato del cavo orale sottoposti a radioterapia post-operatoria dopo chirurgia compartimentale? Analisi retrospettiva di 185 pazienti’. Abstract AIRO
  • 2022: ‘Is it time to spare lingual flap irradiation with locally advanced oral cancer undergoing postoperative radiotherapy after compartment surgery?
  • 2022: ‘Two-year impact of bowel symptoms on HRQoL after RT for prostate cancer with pelvic node irradiation’. Abstract, ESTRO 2023 Vienna, awaiting acceptance
  • 2022: ‘Fast and easy Linac stability control: a feasibility study’. Abstract ESTRO Vienna 2023
  • 2022: "Persistence urinary symptoms and long-term quality of life after prostata cancer radiotherapy"- abstract ESTRO 2023 Vienna
  • 2023:" Beyond erectile dysfanction: time patterns of sexual health after radiotherapy for prostate cancer"- abstract ESTRO 2024
  • 2023: "Patient-reported persistent symptoms after radiotherapy and association with quality of life for prostate cancer survivors"- Acta Oncologica , Vol.62, 2023-Issue 11:21st BiGART 2023
  • 2023: Association of persistent urinarysymptoms with quality of life after prostata cancer radiotherapy"- abstract AIFM
  • 2024:" Bone marrow dose-volume predictors of late lymphopenia after pelvic lymph node irradiation for PCa" - abstract ESTRO 2024
  • 2024:" Quality of life longitudinal evaluation in prostata cancer patients from radiotherapy start to 5 years after IMRT-IGRT" - Current Oncology
  • 2024: " Worsening of 2-year patient-reported intestinal functionality after radiotherpy for prostate cancer including pelvic node irradiation"- Radiotherpy&Oncology

Timeline

Doctor in Radiation Oncology

Radiotherapy Department
02.2019 - 07.2019

Head-Neck RT Treatment Manager

Radiotherapy Service
01.2018 - Current

Doctor in Radiation Oncology

Radiotherapy Department at the University of Innsbruck
11.2017 - 03.2018

Professor at High School of Health

Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
01.2014 - Current

Tutor

Health Authority of the Alto Adige
01.2014 - Current

Responsible for Urological Radiotherapy Treatments

Radiotherapy Service
02.2012 - 07.2022

Doctor in Oncology Radiotherapy

Health Authority of the Alto Adige
02.2012 - Current

Doctor in Oncology Radiotherapy

Pio XI Treatment Centre
01.2011 - 01.2012

Doctor Specialising in Radiotherapy Oncology

Health Authority of Policlinico Umberto I
01.2007 - 01.2011

Radiotherapy Oncology

Policlinico Umberto I

Medical Medicine And Surgery

University "La Sapienza"
Justyna Magdalena Waskiewicz