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Congratulations to James Manalad and Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx for being awarded FRQNT graduate study fellowships!
James’ fellowship will support his PhD studies and Nicolas’ will support his MSc studies. Both are students undertaking their research projects as part of the Kildea lab’s NICE research program.
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
Congratulations to James Manalad and Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx for being awarded FRQNT graduate study fellowships!
John Kildea and fellow members of the Opal Health Informatics Group ran in the 21k de Montreal race and raised $3,165.94 for the Laurie J. Hendren Opal Scholarship fund at the Cedars Cancer Foundation!
A big thank you to all who donated to the cause and to supporters Anton and Tristan who cheered on the runners!
Last updated on Jul 9, 2023 1 min read
John Kildea and fellow members of the Opal Health Informatics Group ran in the 21k de Montreal race and raised $3,165.94 for the Laurie J. Hendren Opal Scholarship fund at the Cedars Cancer Foundation!
John Kildea was an invited panelist at the 2023 Quebec meeting of the Canadian Association for Healthcare Reimbursement.
John shared his perspective for a patient-centered healthcare system in which patients, clinicians, researchers and industry partners work together for true real-world data sharing.
Last updated on Jul 3, 2023 1 min read
John Kildea was an invited panelist at the 2023 Quebec meeting of the Canadian Association for Healthcare Reimbursement.
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”.