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What’s happening in the Kildea lab

Congratulations to Hossein Naseri and collaborators for their publication in Nature Scientific Reports!

This is Hossein’s second paper related to his PhD studies. It presents a novel method to distinguish between metastatic and healthy bone lesions through the use of radiomics and machine-learning applied to lesion-center-based geometric regions of interest.

Congratulations to former MSc students Felix Mathew and Chris Lund for officially graduating in-person from McGill University!

Two years delayed due to COVID but the MSc class of 2020 finally got to graduate in person. Pictured here are David Santiago Ayala Alvare (left) with Felix (centre) and Chris (right). Chris and Felix undertook their MSc projects in the Kildea lab working on the NICE research program.

Talk by John Kildea on the "Rich History and Bright Future of Medical Physics"

John provided an overview of some of the exciting events that shaped modern medical physics and provided a personal look into what the future holds in store for the field. Video available via the McGill Medical Physics Unit’s YouTube channel.

Congratulations to Hossein Naseri and Felix Mathew for receiving Doctoral Funding Awards from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé!

Hossein and Felix join Haley Patrick who is already funded by the FRQS, bringing the total number of FRQS-funded students in the lab to three.

Congradulations to Anton Gladyr on graduating with an MSc degree from McGill University!

Anton graduate from McGill University with an MSc degree in Computer Science. Anton is now a software developer with the Opal Health Informatics Group.

Congradulations to James Manalad on graduating with an MSc degree from McGill University!

James graduated from the CAMPEP-accredited Medical Physics program at McGill University with an MSc degree in Medical Radiation Physics.

Invited oral presentation by John Kildea and Tarek Hijal on the use of Opal during the COVID pandemic at ACFAS 2022

The two co-creators of Opal virtually presented the platform and its use during the COVID-19 pandemic in the ACFAS 2022 symposium: Enjeux de l’utilisation des technologies de l’information en santé en temps de COVID-19

Opal Stakeholder Co-Design Workshop on Patient-Reported Outcomes

On May 9th, 2022, the Quebec SmartCare Consortium held a stakeholder co-design workshop on patient-reported outcomes in Montreal. Consortium stakeholders representing patients, clinicians, researchers and industry partners participated in a very engaging day of activities in the form of interest-based negotiation.

Oral Presentation by Felix Mathew at ImNeudos 2022

Congratulations to Felix Mathew for an excellent and well-received oral presentation at the ImNeudos 2022 conference in Krakow, Poland. Felix presented his exploratory research project on using single-cell sequencing as a potential tool for biological radiation dosimetry. It generated chat about a fundamentally new way of doing biological dosimetry. Felix’s talk was entitled “Using single-cell DNA sequencing as a dosimetric tool- An exploratory study”.

Oral Presentation by John Kildea at ImNeudos 2022

At the ImNeudos 2022 conference in Poland, John presented an overview of the Neutron-induced carcinogenic effects research program and the completed and ongoing work of our research team