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John Kildea was an invited participant in a panel discussion on healthcare data and outcomes as part of an event hosting a Swiss visiting trade delegation at the Novartis Canada headquarters in Old Montreal.
The panel discussion focused on “The Role of Data for Better Health Outcomes”. Novartis Canada is a partner in the Quebec SmartCare Consortium in which John Kildea is the principal investigator.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
John Kildea was an invited participant in a panel discussion on healthcare data and outcomes as part of an event hosting a Swiss visiting trade delegation at the Novartis Canada headquarters in Old Montreal.
John Kildea was the featured faculty member in the Gerald Bronfman Dept. of Oncology’s 95th Focus on Faculty edition.
The article can be found here.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
John Kildea was the featured faculty member in the Gerald Bronfman Dept. of Oncology’s 95th Focus on Faculty edition.
Congratulations to Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx for winning a 2023 Canadian Space Health Undergraduate Summer Research Award from the Canadian Space Health Research Network!
Nicolas will work on studying post-radiation DNA repair using the TOPAS-nBio track structure framework.
Last updated on Jul 3, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx for winning a 2023 Canadian Space Health Undergraduate Summer Research Award from the Canadian Space Health Research Network!
Congratulations to James Manalad and co-authors for their paper in Physics in Medicine and Biology!
The publication describes the work of James’ MSc project. It is entitled “A study of indirect action’s impact on simulated neutron-induced DNA damage”.
Last updated on Jul 3, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to James Manalad and co-authors for their paper in Physics in Medicine and Biology!
Congratulations to Hossein Naseri for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
Hossein’s thesis is entitled “The use of radiomics and natural language processing to detect pain in the simulation-CT images of patients undergoing radiotherapy for bone metastasis”. Hossein is the second PhD student to graduate from the Kildea lab.
Last updated on Jul 3, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to Hossein Naseri for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
John Kildea was an invited participant in a panel discussion on public-private research partnership at the event L'innovation - une source de valeur sociétale et économique hosted by the CHUM and the Montreal Chamber of Commerce.
John shared the work of the Quebec SmartCare Consortium as an example of a public-private partnership that is working to improve access to healthcare data in Quebec for all stakeholders.
Last updated on Jul 3, 2023 1 min read
John Kildea was an invited participant in a panel discussion on public-private research partnership at the event L'innovation - une source de valeur sociétale et économique hosted by the CHUM and the Montreal Chamber of Commerce.
Congratulations to Felix Mathew for his recent article in the bulletin of the Canadian Radiation Protection Association entitled “Single-Cell DNA Sequencing — A Potential Dosimetric Tool”.
This article describes the novel research Felix is undertaking in his PhD research project.
Last updated on Jul 3, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to Felix Mathew for his recent article in the bulletin of the Canadian Radiation Protection Association entitled “Single-Cell DNA Sequencing — A Potential Dosimetric Tool”.
John Kildea interviewed on CJAD for the first anniversary of the Quebec SmartCare Consortium

On December 18th, 2022, Tarah Schwartz interviewed John Kildea on her MUHC Foundation’s Health Matters show on CJAD radio. The recording of the interview can be accessed here. John’s interview began at minute 29.15.

Last updated on Dec 28, 2022 1 min read
John Kildea interviewed on CJAD for the first anniversary of the Quebec SmartCare Consortium
The Quebec SmartCare Consortium marks its one year anniversary with a successful social media coundown campaign involving all consortium partners

The Quebec SmartCare Consortium was one year old on December 13th, 2022. To mark the occasion, the consortium had a 17-day countdown social media campaign during which one consortium partner was highlighted each day. The anniversary itself was highlighted on the website of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

John Kildea (right in the photo) is the principal investigator of the Quebec SmartCare Consortium. Tristan Williams (left in the photo) is its social media coordinator. The consortium’s logo is shown. More details at: quebecsmartcare.com.

Last updated on Dec 27, 2022 1 min read
The Quebec SmartCare Consortium marks its one year anniversary with a successful social media coundown campaign involving all consortium partners
Congratulations to Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben for winning the best presentation award at the AQPMC ASM 2022!

Kayla’s presentation was an overview of her ongoing thesis research project that is using digital twinning technology to predict radiotherapy replanning for head and neck cancer patients.

Last updated on Dec 27, 2022 1 min read
Congratulations to Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben for winning the best presentation award at the AQPMC ASM 2022!