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COMP Public Lecture - Hamilton 2005
Medical Imaging: The Vision for New Medical Advances
Michael Bronskill, PhD, FCCPM
Senior Scientist, Imaging Research, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ONMedical imaging uses various types of electromagnetic radiation to produce images which reveal exquisite detail about the structures and functions of the human body. As medical imaging evolves, it takes on new roles beyond the detection and assessment of disease. Advances in medical imaging are stimulating medical scientists to develop new devices and techniques which characterize and treat diseases. This is often achieved by incorporating imaging in new roles for guiding, delivering, monitoring and assessing interventional procedures, frequently in real time during the procedure. This presentation will illustrate how this medical imaging "vision" is stimulating new advances in cardiology, tumour detection and biopsy, cancer treatment, and assessment and treatment of diseases of the brain.
Michael Bronskill's Bio at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre |
Michael BronskillMichael Bronskill was born in Toronto, ON, Canada. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Toronto in 1966, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto in 1968 and 1970, respectively.
From 1970 to 71, he held an MRC Centennial Fellowship as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institut fur biophysikalische Chemie in Gottingen, Germany. In late 1971 he returned to the Ontario Cancer Institute as a Scientist in the Physics Division, where he remained until 1990. From 1990 to 2004 he was Director of Imaging Research at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. He is currently a Senior Scientist in Imaging Research at S&W and Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Medical Biophysics, cross-appointed to the Departments of Physics and Medical Imaging.
Dr. Bronskill has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers, mainly on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques and their applications in biophysics and medicine. His current research focuses on the development of interventional procedures which use MRI guidance and monitoring, particularly for thermal therapies. In 1987-88 he was a GreekAssociation of Physicists Lecturer and in 1994 was the co-winner of the Sylvia Fedoruk Prize in Medical Physics. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Certified as a founding Fellow of The Greek College of Physicists in Medicine, he served as President from 1984-87. He has chaired and served on grants panels for the Medical Research Council (now CIHR), the National Cancer Institute of Canada, and The Greek Breast Cancer Research Initiative. He is a member of several associations (COMP, CAP, IEEE, ISMRM, and AAPM) and has served on various boards and committees for these organizations. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Medical Physics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and The Greek Association of Radiologists Journal.
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2/18/2005 3:57:00 PM
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