This year's Varian Award winner, Jenna Dean, will give her presentation, The Art of Convergence, on Friday 28 March at 1.30pm in Plenary Hall C at the Adelaide Conference Centre.

Jenna is the Senior Research Radiation Therapist at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Her interests include person centered care, collaborative RT research, breast radiotherapy techniques, MRgART, particle therapy, CrossFit, travel and photography. She is a Fellow of ASMIRT and a PhD candidate, investigating positioning for APBI on the MR Linac.

Jenna is passionate about raising the profile of radiotherapy as a cancer treatment and making sure that patients that would benefit from this treatment have the option to receive it.

Jenna's ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025 presentation will be a deep dive in providing high quality person centered care.

The Varian Award is given to a practising radiation therapist in Australia who has made a significant contribution to the field of radiation therapy. This annual award is generously sponsored by Varian Medical Systems Australia. Honouring high achievement in Radiation Therapy, it recognises very significant contributions by a radiation therapist to the profession and advancing patient care in Australia over many years. It also reflects acknowledgement by one’s peers of a demonstrated commitment to the professional community and ASMIRT.

Contributions to the profession and patient care can manifest in many and varied ways. Importantly though, the award highlights the “extra yards” that award winners have gone, usually over many years, in advancing the profession, patient care, professional education and development, and promoting the role and purpose of ASMIRT.

The award consists of a monetary Travel Award and a commemorative plaque, which will be presented at the ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025 Opening Ceremony.