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Felix Mathew wins People's Choice Award at the 2021 AAPM Slam Competition!

Congratulations to Felix Mathew who won the People’s Choice award and the runner-up overall award for his 3-minute slam describing his research project at the virtual annual conference of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine!

Presentation by Haley Patrick at the COMP ASM 2021

Haley presented her work studying the relationship between daily rectal wall dose variations during prostate radiotherapy with rectal volume and gas filling information.

Presentation by James Manalad at the COMP ASM 2021

James presented on his MSc project that is modelling DNA damage by indirect chemical action following an ionizing radiation event in or near the cell hosting the DNA.

Logan Montgomery wins 2nd prize in the COMP Young Investigator's Symposium

Congratulations to Logan Montgomery for representing the lab and his research project in an excellent presentation!

Presentation by Hossein Naseri at the COMP ASM 2021

Hossein presented on his PhD project, which is to develop a system to predict bone pain in the medical images of cancer patients before it becomes painful so that we can treat the lesions prophalatically with radiotherapy.

Presentation by Felix Mathew at the COMP ASM 2021

Felix Mathew presented on his NLP work to assist incident learning in Radiation Oncology.

Presentation by Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben at the COMP ASM 2021

Kayla presented on her MSc project, which is part of the Opal PARTAGE project. Kayla developed a Research menu, e-consent forms and radiotherapy treatment plan-display in Opal.

Participation in the CodeX FHIR Accelerator

John Kildea to represent the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists in the CodeX HL7 FHIR accelerator.

Presentations at the 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists

Six graduate students from the Kildea lab to present at the COMP ASM 2021.

Congratulations to PhD student Felix Mathew for winning the 2020 CIRMS Junior Investigator Award!

Due to the COVID pandemic, Felix received his 2020 award at the virtual 2021 conference of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards.