2025 Mentorship Awardees and Survivor Circle grant recipients, Last days to vote in ASTRO elections
July 2, 2025
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| ASTRO names the 2025 Mentorship Award recipients |
| ASTRO is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Mentorship Award: Iris Gibbs, MD, FASTRO, Stanford Medicine; Helen Shih, MD, MS, MPH, FASTRO, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Joachim Yahalom, MD, FASTRO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The ASTRO Mentorship Award recognizes mentors in radiation oncology who demonstrate outstanding commitment to the professional development of their mentees as clinicians, educators and researchers. Please join us in recognizing the recipients during the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco. |
| 2025 Survivor Circle Grant recipients |
| We are pleased to announce that Carter's Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Riverside, California, dedicated to bringing joy and comfort to children undergoing cancer treatment or hospitalization in Southern California, and Latinas Contra Cancer, a nonprofit from San Jose, California, that aims to create an inclusive health care system for underserved Latinx residents of Santa Clara County, have been selected as the 2025 ASTRO Survivor Circle Grant recipients! Each group will receive a grant of $12,500 and recognition at the ASTRO Annual Meeting. To date, the Survivor Circle Grant program has awarded more than $550,000 in grants. Learn more about the Survivor Circle Grant and our past recipients. |
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Explore the latest issue of ASTROnews Parallel Universes, the summer issue of ASTROnews, explores practice distinctions and commonalities from featured radiation oncologists and medical physicists from around the globe. We take a glimpse into the daily lives of physicians in Turkey, Ukraine, Uganda, and go coast-to-coast in the United States to see what sets us apart and what brings us together as a specialty. Explore the Summer issue on our new ASTROnews online website. |
| Act now - Submit your vote for ASTRO 2025 elections |
| ASTRO's 2025 official elections are open until Friday, July 11. Log in with your email address and password to view the nominees and access the ballot. Send an email if you need assistance with your login information. Voting is conducted through a secure, online system that ensures the authenticity and secrecy of your ballot. |
| A note regarding international travel to the U.S. for the 2025 Annual Meeting |
| ASTRO warmly invites and welcomes our global community to the 2025 Annual Meeting. While ASTRO itself is nonpolitical, we understand that current global circumstances may raise concerns for some attendees about international travel to the U.S. Please know we are dedicated to your safety and engagement, and we offer enhanced virtual attendance options for those unable to join us in person in San Francisco. Please review information on our international attendee travel webpage, and if you have travel-related questions or concerns not addressed there, please contact ASTRO directly. |
| ROI and ARRO publication award nominations due July 7 |
| Less than one week remains to nominate an exceptional early career researcher for the ROI Publication Excellence Awards, ARRO Health Care Access Publication Award or both! Recipients will be honored at the 2025 ASTRO Annual Meeting and receive $1,500. Self-nominations are welcome. Don’t delay — submit your nomination through the joint application site on ProposalCentral by July 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. |
| Save the date and register for 2026 Medicare Payment Town Hall |
| Mark your calendars for a Town Hall on August 6, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, to discuss the significant Medicare policy changes for radiation oncology expected when CMS releases its 2026 payment rules in the coming days. ASTRO’s Board and Health Policy leaders will review the proposed changes to physician and hospital payments and ASTRO’s corresponding advocacy strategy. Get a head start by reviewing this preview authored by ASTRO and ACRO health policy leaders and watching the Medicare Town Hall from March. ASTRO members can register now for the Town Hall. |
| Senate passes Reconciliation Bill, includes one-year doc fix |
| On July 1, the Senate passed its budget reconciliation bill (HR.1), which includes an increase in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payments of 2.5% in 2026 and expands to nearly $1 trillion cuts to Medicaid. The bill, which now goes back to the House for consideration, also maintains the current PTET (pass-through entity tax) deduction, protecting small medical practices from being double-taxed. For more, go to What’s Happening in Washington. |
