Meet the editors

Dr. Thomas J. FitzGerald is a professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, UMass Chan Medical School, USA. The department has a strong academic mission and provides clinical care to multiple communities throughout central Massachusetts with several community centers providing advanced technology clinical care. Dr. FitzGerald has been the principal investigator of the Quality Assurance Review Center

(QARC) for more than twenty-five years. QARC provides imaging and radiation oncology data acquisition and data management services to the National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) and industry partners. QARC is now part of the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core (IROC), which centralizes data management and quality assurance service for NCTN clinical trials with offices in Rhode Island, Houston, TX, Columbus, OH, and Philadelphia, PA. In this capacity, proton institutions' applications are credentialed for clinical trial participation and data reviewed for protocol compliance. Dr. FitzGerald serves in an advisory capacity for The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA).

Maryann Bishop-Jodoin, MEd, is an instructor and scientific writer in the Department of Radiation Oncology, UMass Chan Medical School, USA. She has worked with her co-editor Dr. FitzGerald at the Quality Assurance Review Center for more than twenty-five years. She writes and edits manuscripts, books, grants, and other publications.
