ASTRO EAGL Awards

Congratulations to the 2024 Emerging Advocacy Grassroots Leadership (EAGL) grantees:

Bethel Adefres, MD, Yale New Haven Hospital
Kelsey Corrigan, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Benjamin Hopkins, MD, Emory University
Kristen Hsieh, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jeremiah Johnson, MD, University of Kentucky
Erin Kaya, MD, OHSU
Abhishek Kumar, MD, Duke Cancer Institute
Emily MacDuffie, MD, University of Pennsylvania
Kathryn Marqueen, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kyra McComas, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Sean Miller, MD, University of Michigan
Ranjani Padmanabhan, MD, NYP BMH Radiation Oncology
Jared Pasetsky, MD, New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia Campus
Joseph Wilding, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University/MCV Massey Cancer Center

Title and affiliation provided for identification purposes only.

About the EAGL Award

We recognize that radiation oncology residents and nurses are a crucial component of the specialty and its future. Therefore, to support resident and nurse attendance at Advocacy Day, ASTRO provides the opportunity for emerging advocates to receive an Emerging Advocacy Grassroots Leadership (EAGL) Award to mitigate travel costs.

To apply:

• Write a one-page letter explaining why attending Advocacy Day is important to advancing your career and radiation oncology.
• Submit an accompanying letter from your program director recommending your attendance.*
• Letters should be submitted together to Courtney Williams. We look forward to Advocacy Day 2025.

ASTRO staff and government relations council chairs will evaluate applicant letters and recommendations from program directors. For those applicants who are approved, ASTRO will provide a $400 award to offset costs of attendance.

ASTRO will only select one awardee per institution. EAGL awardees will be recognized in an ASTRO press release prior to Advocacy Day.

Due to their leadership positions, voting members of the ARRO Executive Committee travel costs are covered and are exempt from the application process.

Residents and nurses who want to attend Advocacy Day but do not receive an EAGL Award are still encouraged to participate.

*Nurses do not need to submit a letter from their program/department director.