Call for Education Session Proposals

1. Sponsorship or ASTRO membership is not required to submit a session proposal.
2. Proposals must be fully submitted via the online ASTRO submission site by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, Monday, January 11, 2027.

Selection Criteria for Education Session Proposals

• Does the proposal provide important, new or novel insight?
• Is the proposal relevant to radiation oncology, the Annual Meeting, and the field?
• Is the proposal methodology strong, of high quality, and based on published evidence?
• Is the proposal organized, logical and coherent?
• Do the proposed speakers and moderators have the necessary expertise to provide the proposed education and do they reflect diversity in institutional affiliation and representation in recent ASTRO education sessions to support inclusion? (Speakers and moderators should rotate every three to four years)

All submissions must have ONE primary track and may select up to two secondary tracks.

Please review the 2026 Annual Meeting Program here as repeat proposals are unlikely to be selected.

• Breast Cancer
• Central Nervous System
• Digital Health Innovation and Informatics
• Functional Radiation Medicine
• Gastrointestinal Cancer
• Genitourinary Cancer
• Gynecological Cancer
• Head and Neck Cancer
• Healthcare Access and Community Engagement
• Health Services Research
• Hematologic Malignancies
• International/Global Oncology
• Lung Cancer/Thoracic Malignancies
• Medical Education/Professional Development
• Miscellaneous
• Nursing and Supportive Care
• Palliative Care
• Patient Reported Outcomes/Qol/Survivorship
• Patient Safety and Quality
• Pediatric Cancer
• Practical Radiation Oncology
• Radiation and Cancer Biology
• Radiation and Cancer Physics
• Sarcoma and Cutaneous Tumors

In addition, each year the ASTRO President selects a theme that resonates throughout the meeting program. The 2027 theme is The Full Spectrum: From Discovery to Delivery, Expanding What's Possible. You will be able to indicate in your proposal if it is related to this year's theme.

View the session proposals template to assist with your planning purposes. Please note that this is just a planning tool and that all session proposals need to be submitted via the online submission site.

ASTRO is an accredited provider of continuing medical education and adheres to the policies and standards set forth by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). As such, moderators and speakers are required to disclose relationships with ineligible companies.

An ineligible company is defined as “any entity developing, producing, marketing, reselling or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients.”

To ensure its compliance, ASTRO expects that the content and related materials will promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest or commercial bias.

We employ several strategies to ensure absence of bias:

• Moderators and speakers are required to provide disclosure of relationships with commercial interests.
• Moderators and speakers are required to provide a balanced view of therapeutic options.
• All proposals undergo a rigorous peer review process.
• Potential conflicts are managed by additional committee review, advance slide review and session audits.

ASTRO Education Staff Support
ASTRO Staff may be reached by emailing the Annual Meetings team.

ASTRO Proposal Submission Site Technical Support
Technical problems should be reported by email to Technical Support.

Urgent technical questions may be asked by phone at 401-334-0220 (Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern time).