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Kildea lab at the Medteq+ forum

John Kildea and Kelly Agnew participated in the 2024 Meteq+ forum at the Old Port of Montreal.

Last updated on Jun 26, 2024 1 min read
Kildea lab at the Medteq+ forum
Congratulations to Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben for publication of her paper in JACMP entitled "Design and implementation of a prototype radiotherapy menu in a patient portal".
This paper describes the work Kayla did in creating a radiotherapy menu in the Opal patient portal as part of her MSc thesis in Medical Physics at McGill University. It represents a world-first in terms of sharing radiotherapy treatment plans with patients via a patient portal.
Last updated on Feb 12, 2024 1 min read
Congratulations to Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben for publication of her paper in JACMP entitled "Design and implementation of a prototype radiotherapy menu in a patient portal".
Presentations by Felix Mathew and Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx at the International Congress for Radiation Research in Montreal

Felix presented his poster outlining his new simulations pipeline for radiation-induced DNA damaage and sequencing, entitled “Drawing Parallels and Bridging Single-Cell Sequencing Experiment with Monte Carlo Simulation.

Nicolas presented a poster on his summer research project enttitled “Preliminary results simulating direct and indirect neutron-induced DNA damage with repair mechanisms”.

Last updated on Sep 15, 2023 1 min read
Presentations by Felix Mathew and Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx at the International Congress for Radiation Research in Montreal
Congratulations to Haley Patrick for publication of her paper in Acta Oncologica entitled "Experimental validation of a novel method of dose accumulation for the rectum".
This paper describes Haley’s experimental validation of her dose-surfacing mapping software using film dosimtry. It represents the first experimental validation of dose-surface maps for radiotherapy using film. The experimental work was conceived of, designed by, and carefully carried out by Haley as part of her PhD project.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to Haley Patrick for publication of her paper in Acta Oncologica entitled "Experimental validation of a novel method of dose accumulation for the rectum".
Talk by John Kildea in the McMedHacks Program
John presented on “Co-design and data-sharing with a patient portal to facilitate AI research in healthcare”. McMedHacks
Last updated on Jul 16, 2023 1 min read
Talk by John Kildea in the McMedHacks Program
John Kildea and Amal Zouaq awarded an FRQS dual chair in AI and digital health
Together the Kildea and Zouaq labs will combine their resources to build a research program entitled “Des données intelligentes pour des soins intelligents contre le cancer - un programme de recherche qui combine une expertise en traitement automatique des langues, web sémantique, et des données centrées sur les patients pour la génération de bases de connaissances en oncologie.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
John Kildea and Amal Zouaq awarded an FRQS dual chair in AI and digital health
John Kildea named to the Faculty Honour List for Education Excellence in McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
The announcement can be found here. As John was unable to attend the award ceremony due to travel, he provided the following statement that was read out: I’d like to thank the members of the committee for including me in the 2023 honour list for educational excellence.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
John Kildea named to the Faculty Honour List for Education Excellence in McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Congratulations to Haley Patrick who successfully defended her PhD thesis in Biological and Biomedical Engineering on Thursday May 25th 2023!
Haley’s PhD thesis is entitled “Development of a dose-surface map workflow for dose-outcome studies of the rectum during radiotherapy for prostate cancer”. Haley is the third student to complete their PhD in the Kildea lab.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to Haley Patrick who successfully defended her PhD thesis in Biological and Biomedical Engineering on Thursday May 25th 2023!
Congratulations to Hossein Naseri and co-authors for their publication in JMIR AI entitled “A scalable radiomics- and NLP- based machine learning pipeline to distinguish between painful and painless thoracic spinal bone metastases- Algorithm Development and Validation”
This paper is the third of the sequence of papers that made up Hossein’s PhD thesis.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to Hossein Naseri and co-authors for their publication in JMIR AI entitled “A scalable radiomics- and NLP- based machine learning pipeline to distinguish between painful and painless thoracic spinal bone metastases- Algorithm Development and Validation”
Congratulations to Kayla O’Sullivan-Steben for winning the Early Career Investigator award at the AAPM Practical Big Data workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan!
Kayla presented her PhD project on predicting anatomical changes in head and neck cancer patients undergoing Radiotherapy. Her presentation was entitled “Predicting anatomical changes in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy“.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to Kayla O’Sullivan-Steben for winning the Early Career Investigator award at the AAPM Practical Big Data workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan!