Beth Erickson

EDUCATION

• MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1984
• Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1980

POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION

• Brachytherapy Fellowship, Centre Anti-canceru Francais, 1988
• Clinical Fellow, American Cancer Society, 1987 - 1988
• Residency, Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 1988
• Rotating Internship, Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 1985

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• J. Frank and Vera B. Wilson Professorship in Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - present
• Present Secondary Faculty - Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2018 - present
• Professor of Radiation Oncology with Tenure, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007 - present
• Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2001 - 2007
• Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1996 - 2001
• Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1990 - 1995
• Assistant Professor (Full professional effort part-time), Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1989 - 1990
• Clinical Instructor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1988 - 1989
• Instructor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1988

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

• Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1988 - present
• Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1991 - present
• Clement Zablocki Veterans Administration, Milwaukee, 1989 - 2016

SERVICE TO ASTRO

• Chair, ASTRO Endometrial Guideline Focused Update Task Force, 2025 - present
• Member, ASTRO Conflict of Interest Committee, 2024 - present
• Member, ASTRO Guidelines Committee, 2024 - present
• ASTRO Board of Directors: Education Council, Vice-chair: 2020 - 2022; Chair: 2022 - 2024
• Member ASTRO Annual Meeting Steering Committee, 2023 - 2024
• Chair, ASTRO Endometrial Guideline Task Force, 2020 - 2022
• Member, Editor-in-Chief of Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO) Search Committee, 2019
• Annual ASTRO Refresher Course Program Committee, Vice Chair 2018 - 2020; Chair 2021 - 2024
• Member, Radiation Therapy for Cervical Cancer Guideline Task Force, 2018 - 2020
• Member, Fellows Selection Committee, 2017 - 2025; Vice-chair 2019 - 2021; Chair, 2021 - 2024; Immediate Past Chair 2025
• ASTRO Annual Meeting Discussant in the highest-level Plenary Session, 2017
• Member, Annual Meeting Education Committee, 2015 - 2018
• Gynecologic Track Chair and Member Annual Meeting Education Committee, 2014 - 2018
• Co-Chair Combined ABS Gyn School in Chicago, Il July 2014, co-sponsored by ASTRO, ASCO and SGO
• Education Committee, 2012 - 2013; 2018 - 2023
• Member, MOC/CME Committee, 2012 - 2020; Co-Chair, 2013 - 2020
• Fellow, American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2012 - present
• Member, Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors, 2011 - 2015; 2022 - 2024
• Member, Endometrial Guidelines Panel, 2011 - 2013
• Member, HDR Q/A White Paper, Clinical Affairs & Quality Committee, 2010 - 2011
• Faculty, Gyn E-Contouring Faculty, 2007 - 2016
• Chair, GYN Abstract Review Committee, 2006 - 2008
• Faculty, Annual Meeting Cervix Refresher Course, 2003 - 2009
• Member, Annual Meeting and Program Committee, 2001 - 2005
• Gyn Abstract Reviewer Annual Meeting, 2001 - 2008, 2013
• Liaison representative, American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, 1999 - 2005
• Moderator, panel member, or other oral presentations for ASTRO, 2002 - 2019; 2020; 2022
• 2024

SERVICE TO OTHER ONCOLOGY OR RADIOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS

• American Board of Radiology
  • Member, Radiation Oncology Continuing Certification Advisory Committee, 2021 - 2026
  • Chair, Focused Practice Recognition in MOC, 2011 - 2015
  • Member, IMG Committee, 2009 - 2011
  • Member, Professionalism Committee, 2009 - 2011
  • Member, Nominating Committee, 2009 - 2011
  • Chairman, ABRF Program Committee, 2008 - 2010
  • Member, Investment Committee, 2008 - 2009
  • Member, ABR Foundation, 2006 - 2011
  • Secretary/Treasurer, ABRF, 2006 - 2008
  • Member, ABRF Finance Committee, 2006 - 2008
  • Secretary/Treasurer, 2006 - 2008
  • ABMS Voting Representative, 2006 - 2011
  • ABR Representative, Residency Review Committee, 2005 - 2011
  • Chairman, Policy Committee, 2004 - 2011
  • Alternate ABMS Voting Representative, 2004 - 2006
  • Member, Executive Committee, 2004 - 2008
  • Assistant Executive Director, Radiation Oncology, 2004 - 2006 and 2008 - 2011
  • Member, Licensure Sub-committee, 2004 - 2011
  • Chair, Oral Boards GYN Category, 2003 - 2008
  • Member, Board of Trustees, 2003 - 2011
  • Chair, Written Examination Committee - GYN Category, 2001 - 2008
  • Examiner, Oral Boards, 1997 - 2011; 2026
  • Member, Committee on Residency Training in Radiation Oncology, 1996 - 2011
• American Brachytherapy Society
  • Member, The American Brachytherapy Society Consensus Recommendations for Hybrid Intracavitary Interstitial Brachytherapy for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer, 2023 - 2024
  • American Brachytherapy Society working group report on the patterns of care and a literature review of reirradiation for gynecologic cancers, 2020
  • Dr. Thom Shanahan Distinguished Brachytherapy Educator Award, 2018
  • American Brachytherapy Society recurrent carcinoma of the endometrium task force patterns of care and review of the literature, 2017
  • American Brachytherapy Task Group Report: A pooled analysis of clinical outcomes for high-dose-rate brachytherapy for cervical cancer, 2017 
  • American Brachytherapy Society: Brachytherapy treatment recommendations for locally advanced cervix cancer for low-income and middle-income countries, 2017
  • Vice-Chair, ABS Fellowship Committee, 2017 - 2018 
  • Member, Education Task Group, 2014
  • Chair, International Committee, 2013 - 2019
  • Henschke Award Recipient 2014
  • Member, Consensus Guidelines for Inoperable Endometrial Cancer, 2015
  • Member, Consensus Guidelines for Interstitial Brachytherapy for Vaginal Cancer, 2012 
  • Co-Chair, Gyn Brachytherapy School, 2006 - 2022
  • Chairman, Awards Committee, 2004 - 2005
  • Chairman, Liaison Committee, 2004 - 2005
  • Past President, Board of Directors, 2003 - 2004
  • President, Board of Directors, 2002 - 2003
  • President-elect, Board of Directors, 2001 - 2002
  • Member, Low Dose Rate Guidelines for Cervical Carcinoma Working Group, 2001
  • Member, CME Planner for the 2001 Annual Meeting, 2000 - 2001
  • Secretary, Board of Directors, 2000 - 2001
  • Member, High Dose Rate Consensus Guidelines for Endometrial Carcinoma Working Group, 1999; 2012
  • Member, CME Planner for the 2000 Annual Meeting, 1999 - 2000
  • Member, High Dose Rate Guidelines for Cervical Carcinoma Working Group, 1999, 2012
  • Treasurer, Board of Directors, 1999 - 2000
  • Scientific Program Director, Annual Meeting, 1998 - 1999
  • Member at Large, Board of Directors, 1998 - 1999
  • Abstract Reviewer, Annual Meeting, 1997 - 2004; 2007
  • Faculty, Gyn Brachytherapy School, 1995 - 2022; 2025 
• American College of Radiology
  • Member, Committee on Practice Parameters - Radiation Oncology Image Guided Radiotherapy, 2017 - 2018 
  • The American College of Radiology and the American Brachytherapy Society practice parameter for the performance of radionuclide-based high-dose-rate brachytherapy, 2017
  • The American College of Radiology and the American Brachytherapy Society practice parameter for the performance of low-dose-rate brachytherapy. Brachytherapy, 2017
  • Member, Committee on Practice Parameters - Radiation Oncology, 2014 - 2019
  • Panel member, Appropriateness Criteria-Radiation Oncology-Gynecology, 2012 - 2014
  • Member, Guidelines and Standards Committee - Radiation Oncology, 2011 - 2012
  • Panel member, Expert Panel on Radiation Oncology Gynecology, 2009 - 2016: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on Advanced Cervical Cancer Expert Panel on Radiation Oncology – Gynecology (2011); ACR Appropriateness Criteria ® role of adjuvant therapy in the management of early stage cervical cancer(2012); ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Definitive Therapy for Early-Stage Cervical Cancer(2012); ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Management of Locoregionally Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Vulva (2013); ACR Appropriateness Criteria®, Management of Vaginal Cancer. Oncology: Perspectives on Best Practices (2013)
  • Chair, ACR Practice Guidelines for the performance of High Dose Rate and Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy, 2008 - 2019
  • Fellow, 2008 - present
  • Vice Chair, Cervix Committee, Patterns of Care/QRRO Study, 2001 - 2014
  • Member, Subcommittee for Development of Joint Standards for Brachytherapy with the American Brachytherapy Society, 2000 - 2005
  • Member, Committee on Standards and Accreditation (Commission on Radiation Oncology),1999 - 2005
  • CME Liaison, American Brachytherapy Society, 1997 - 1999
  • Member, Committee on Residency Training in Radiation Oncology, 1996
• Radiological Society of North America
  • Annual Oration in Radiation Oncology, 2020
  • Co-Chairman, Oncologic Imaging and Therapies Task Force, 2013 - 2016
  • Member, Oncologic Imaging and Therapies Task Force, 2012 - 2015
• Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (Now NRG)
  • Member, Adaptive Radiation White Paper: Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) strategies and technical considerations: A state of the ART review 2018 - 2020
  • Member, Atlas development, Image-guided Brachytherapy, 2012 - 2014; Comparison and consensus guidelines for delineation of clinical target volume for CT- and MR-based brachytherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer, 2014
  • Member, Atlas development, Postop cervix/endometrial, 2012 - 2019
  • Member, NRG Cervix Committee, 2012 - 2019
  • Member, Atlas development, Vulva, 2011 - 2016; Consensus Recommendations for Radiation Therapy Contouring and Treatment of Vulvar Carcinoma, 2016
  • Member, Atlas development, Intact Cervix, 2010 - 2015: Gyn IMRT Consortium. Consensus guidelines for delineation of clinical target volume for intensity-modulated pelvic radiotherapy for the definitive treatment of cervix cancer, 2015 
  • Member, Advanced Technology Integration Committee, 2007 - 2012
  • Image-guided Brachytherapy Working Group for Gynecologic Cancers, 2001 - 2009
  • Member, Brachytherapy Committee, 2000 - 2007
  • Member, Gastrointestinal Committee, 1999 - 2014
  • Member, High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Guidelines for Gynecologic Malignancies Subcommittee, 1999 - 2000
  • Member, Gynecologic Oncology Committee, 1992 - 2012
• European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
  • Abstract Reviewer, Brachytherapy: Gynecology, ESTRO, 2022 - 2025
  • External Reviewer, Updated Cervical Cancer Guidelines, ESGO-ESTRO-ESP, 2022
  • Member, Vaginal Recurrence Target Definition Committee, 2019 - present
  • Abstract reviewer GEC-ESTRO World Congress, 2019, 2021
  • Member, ICRU 89 Report Committee, 2011 - 2016 
  • Member, GEC ESTRO Committee, 2007 - 2013
  • Co-Chair, Transatlantic Image-Based Brachytherapy Working Group, 2005
  • Member, Gynecologic Cancer Intergroup, 2005
  • Member, GEC-ESTRO Gynecology Cervix Working Group, 2004
• American Association for Women Radiologists
  • Member, Radiation Oncology Committee, 2008
  • Member at Large, 1998 - 1999
  • Member, Public Relations Committee, 1998 - 1999
• American Radium Society
  • Member, Nominating Committee, 2003 - 2005
  • Member, Committee on Arrangements, 1999 - 2001
  • Chairman, Public Relations Committee, 1999 - 2001
  • Member, Inter-Society Commission, 1997 - 1998
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • Member, Gynecologic Cancer Guideline Advisory Group (GAG), American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2016 - 2019
• AAPM
  • Faculty, Virtual Summer School: Modern Applications of MR in RT, 2021
  • Member Task Group 303: MR guidance in HDR Brachytherapy: Considerations from Simulation to Treatment, 2017 - 2020

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Beth Erickson is tenured professor and full-time faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin and holds the J. Frank and Vera B. Wilson Professorship in Radiation Oncology. She focuses on the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal, gynecologic and eye/orbital cancers and is Chief of Brachytherapy Services. She has written and spoken nationally and internationally on the treatment of Gynecologic and Gastrointestinal malignancies, with a special interest in image-based treatment planning, both for brachytherapy and external beam irradiation. She has been active in ASTRO with many teaching activities as well as numerous committees including MOC/CME, Education, Nominating, Fellowship, Guidelines, and Conflict of Interest as well as serving as Gyn Track Chair and as a member of the Cervical Guideline Task Force. She was Chair of the ASTRO 2022 Endometrial Cancer Guideline Task Force and is current Chair of the Endometrial Cancer Focused update. She served on the ASTRO Annual Refresher Course committee and was Chair from 2022 - 2024. She served on the ASTRO Board of Directors from 2020 - 2024 as Vice Chair and Chair of the Education Council. She is a former board examiner and trustee of the American Board of Radiology and served on the Residency Review Committee for Radiation Oncology. She has served as a liaison to GEC ESTRO and on the ICRU 89 committee She has been continually active in the American Brachytherapy Society, serving as a member of the Board and past president, as well as the ABS GYN Brachytherapy School since its 1995 inception. She was honored with the Henschke Award (2014) and the Dr. Thom Shanahan Distinguished Brachytherapy Educator Award (2018). She served as section head editor for Gyn for the Journal of Brachytherapy International. Dr. Erickson served as Vice-chair of the Cervix Committee for the Patterns of Care and QRRO Studies and has served as Chair of the ACR Practice Guidelines for the performance of HDR and LDR brachytherapy. She served on the NRG Cervix Committee. She has also been active in the Radiological Society of North America, Co-Chairing the Oncologic Imaging and Therapies Task Force and delivering the 2020 Annual Oration in Radiation Oncology. She was named Medical College of Wisconsin Alumnus of the Year in 2019.