Hossein and Kayla were among 10 finalists from across Canada presenting their PhD research projects in the Young Investigators Symposium.
Hossein presented his project on “Development and testing of an NLP and radiomics-based predictive model of pain for patients with thoracic spinal bone metastases”.
Kayla presented her project on “Design and implementation of a prototype radiotherapy menu in a patient portal to reduce patient anxiety and facilitate data sharing”.
John Kildea was interviewed by Tarah Schwartz on CJAD Radio and the Health Matters podcast about Opal and the benefits of giving patients access to their medical data.
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.
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.
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.
Anton graduate from McGill University with an MSc degree in Computer Science. Anton is now a software developer with the Opal Health Informatics Group.
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
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.