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After a fun and productive summer of research, we say goodbye, thank you, and congratulations to Angèle Wen and Ridhi Mittal, the inagural Laurie J. Hendren scholars. Angèle and Ridhi worked on the OncoBuddy project during summer 2022. Both made excellent progress in just a few months and are leaving behind an impressive set of data and tools for the research team to complete the project with.

In this photo, Ridhi Mittal is receiving her certificate from Laurie’s husband Prakash Panangaden. L to R: John Kildea, Jeff Shamie (president and CEO of the Cedars Cancer Foundation), Ridhi Mittal, Prakash Panangaden, Tarek Hijal. Unfortunately, Angèle and Laurie’s daughter Jane were unable to join in person for the presentation event but both did partipate by Zoom.

A big thank you to the Cedars Cancer Foundation who provided funding for the Laurie J. Hendren Scholarship. We are proud to continue Laurie’s legacy of engaging undergraduate students in health informatics research.

Haley’s technical note paper is entitled “rtdsm—An open-source software for radiotherapy dose-surface map generation and analysis”. It describes the software package that Haley wrote as part of her PhD research project to create and analyse dose-surface maps in radiotherapy.

Congratulations to Haley M. Patrick for presenting a poster on her PhD research project at the AAPM 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington DC. Haley’s poster was entitled “rtdsm: An open-source software for dose-surface map generation and analysis”.

The Kildea lab was well represented at the COMP 2022 meeting in Quebec City.

We had two talks in the prestigious Young Investigators Symposium (Hossein Naseri and Kayla O’Sullivan-Steben), two of just ten students from across Canada.

We also had four posters on the floor - by Haley Patrick, Felix Mathew, James Manalad and John Kildea.

And, we were joined in Quebec by summer student Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx. Overall a great conference! We are looking forward to CARO-COMP in Montreal 2023!

Haley M. Patrick, Felix Mathew, and James Manalad each presented a poster on their reearch projects and John Kildea presented a poster on the CodeX accelerator.

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”.