by
Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | December 30, 2015
From the December 2015 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Bogardus earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, and his medical degree at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He served his residency in therapeutic radiology at Penrose Cancer Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His fellowship in radiation therapy and radiation physics was at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.
Carl M. Mansfield, M.D., Sc.D. (Hon.), FASTRO, has been a member of ASTRO since 1970. When he retired from a nearly 50-year medical career in 2002, he was associate director of the Greenebaum Cancer Center and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland. His career included the positions of professor and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City; professor and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia; and associate director of the Division of Cancer Treatment, Diagnosis and Treatment Centers Radiation Research Program at the National Cancer Institute.
Mansfield is considered a pioneer in intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for early stage breast cancer. He produced a seminal 1983 report comparing perioperative and intraoperative (Iridium -192) breast implants that laid the groundwork for much of the continuing research in this field today. His work also led to advances in the conservative management of breast cancer through breast irradiation and local brachytherapy. This method of treatment excised the tumor without removing the entire breast. Mansfield served as primary or co-author on more than 200 original publications and more than 30 original abstracts. He has also written a book on breast cancer and was editor of two radiation therapy textbooks.
Mansfield earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Lincoln University, a medical degree from Howard University, and an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Lincoln University. In addition to his post-doctoral fellowship at Middlesex Hospital, he was the Chernicoff Fellow in Pediatric Radiation Therapy at Jefferson Medical College Hospital from 1964-66 and served another year at the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy at Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1972-73.
James B. Mitchell, Ph.D., FASTRO, has been an ASTRO member since 1985 and is currently branch chief of the Radiation Biology Branch of the National Cancer Institute at NIH. Mitchell was recognized as a Fellow of ASTRO in 2009 and served as the vice chair of the Radiation Biology Committee and on ASTRO’s Scientific Committee, among numerous other roles. His more than 40-year career as a preeminent radiobiologist includes work in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt University Hospital, the Department of Radiology and Radiation Biology at Colorado State University and the National Cancer Institute at NIH.
