David Bowes

Clinical sites

Genitourinary and Gynecologic cancers 

Education

• BSc (Mount Allison University)
• MD (Dalhousie University)
• FRCPC (Dalhousie University)
• Fellowship in Brachytherapy  (British Columbia Cancer Agency)

Academic & Research interests

• Program director, Radiation Oncology residency training program
• Research in residency education
• Brachytherapy  
  

Awards and honours

• Dalhousie Program Director of the Year award for Innovations in Postgraduate Education, 2016-2017.
• Teacher of the Year, Department of Radiation Oncology, 2012 and 2015
• Highest rate of accruals to clinical trials, Department of Radiation Oncology, 2012, 2013, and 2015

Recent publications

• Sahiti Q, Shearer C, Thomson C, Sutherland L, Bowes D.  Addressing medical resident mistreatment: A resident centred approach. Medical Teacher 2023; in press.
• Barry A, Elliott M, Loewen S, Alfieri J, Bowes D, Croke J, Debenham B, Keyes M, Papdakos J, Quartey N, Stuckless T, Lajkosv K, Weiss J, Giuliani M. The impact of parent and family caregiver roles among Canadian Radiation Oncologists. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 116(2),280-289,2023.
• Ilie G, MacDonald C, Richman H, Rendon R, Mason R, Nuyens A, Bailly G, Bell D, Patil N, Bowes D, Champion I, Wilke D, Masseurs L, Hassan N, Rutledge R. Assessing the efficacy of a 28 day comprehensive online Prostate Cancer Patient Empowerment Program (PC-PEP) in facilitating engagement of prostate cancer patients in their survivorship care: A qualitative study.  Current Oncology 30(9),8633-8652,2023.
• Ilie G, Rendon R, Mason R, MacDonald C, Kucharczyk M, Patil N, Bowes D, Bailly G, Bell D, Lawen J, Ha M, Wilke D, Massaro P, Zahavich J, Kephart G, Rutledge R. A comprehensive 6-mo Prostate Cancer Patient Empowerment Program decreases psychological distress among men undergoing curative intent prostate cancer treatment: A randomized trial. Eur Urol 83(6),561-570,2023.
• Bowes D, Shearer C, Daigle-Maloney T, Dornan J, Lynk A, Parker J, Romao R, Stevens S, Allen S, Warren A, Ackroyd-Stolarz, S. Development and implementation of a Postgraduate Medical Education-wide initiative in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Postgraduate Medical Journal 99(1169),217-222,2023.
• Louie A, Granton P, Fairchild A, Bezjak A, Gopaul D, Mulroy L, Brade A, Warner A, Debenham B, Bowes D, Kuk J, Sun A, Hoover D, Rodrigues G, Palma D.  Palliative radiation for advanced central lung tumors with intentional avoidance of the esophagus (PROACTIVE): an open-label, phase 3, randomized trial.  JAMA Oncology 8(4),1-7,2022.
• Van Oirschot M, Bergman A, Verbakel W, Ward L, Gagne I, Huang V, Chng N, Houston P, Symes K, Thomas C, Basran P, Bowes D, Harrow S, Olson R, Senan S, Warner A, Palma D, Gaede S.  Determining planning priorities for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for oligometastatic disease: a secondary analysis of the SABR-COMET randomized trial.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 114(5),1016-1021,2022.