John Kildea participated in a lively panel discussion on access to health data at the Forum de l’industrie de la santé in Quebec City. Thanks to Roche Canada for the invitation to participate.
The Kildea lab is organizing an exciting symposium on patient-in-the-loop data. A fantastic line up of keynote presentations from world-leading experts on access by patients to their data and panel discussions with local experts, including patient and caregiver partners, is planned. More details are at the event website: lhsymposium.com.
Congratulations to Kayla OSullivan-Steben for an excellent presentation at COMP 2024 in Regina. Kayla’s presentation was entitled “Anonymization by Defacing of Head and Neck Cancer Imaging Datasets for Radiotherapy”.
Congratulations to Odette Rios Ibacache for an excellent presentation at COMP 2024 in Regina. Odette’s presentation was entitled “Development of geometrical parameters for characterizing anatomical alterations in head and neck cancer patients and evaluating radiotherapy replanning”.
Congratulations to Sachin Dev for an excellent presentation in the COMP Highlights session at COMP 2024 in Regina. Sachin’s presentation was entitled “Enhanced thermal neutron transportation modeling in TOPAS and cross validation with Geant4”.
Congratulations to Kildea lab student Odette Rios Ibacache for winning an AAPM/RSNA Doctoral award for her upcoming PhD studies in Medical Physics at McGill University! The American Association of Physicists in Medicine awards just two fellowships to first-year PhD students each year. It’s a fantastic achievement for Odette to be awarded one of them! Odette will begin her PhD project in the Kildea lab in September 2024.
The Kildea lab and the Opal Health Informatics Group welcome McGill MMA summer students Jennifer Liu and Ko-Jen Wang. Both students will work with OHIG data scientist Kelly Agnew on developing visualizations for the Opal Room Management System.
The Kildea lab welcomes the 2024 Laurie J Hendren scholars Artem Buyalo and Shiqi Tan. Both scholars will undertake research projects with the Opal Health Informatics Group at the RI-MUHC.