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American Society for Radiation Oncology names honorary member
Haakon Ragde, MD, has been selected as the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s honorary member for 2016.
Honorary membership is the highest honor ASTRO bestows on distinguished cancer researchers, scientists and leaders in disciplines other than radiation oncology, radiobiology or radiation physics.
“Dr. Ragde is a luminary in the field of medicine,” ASTRO chair Bruce D. Minsky, MD, FASTRO, said in a press release. “His work has become the standard of care in a number of areas. As a board-certified urologist, he has an impressive array of achievements, including introducing seed implantation for prostate cancer into the United States, introducing transrectal ultrasonography and introducing the transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy method now used.”
Ragde served on the bone marrow transplant research team of E. Donnall Thomas, MD, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1990. Ragde later opened a private urology practice in Seattle and became an expert in transrectal ultrasonography of the prostate. He considers his greatest career accomplishment to be template-directed brachytherapy for prostate cancer.
Ragde will be inducted as ASTRO’s 2016 honorary member at an awards ceremony that will be held during the ASTRO Annual Meeting, scheduled for Sept. 25-28 in Boston.