Congratulations to McGill Medical Physics student Logan Montgomery for his excellent presentation in the 2021 COMP Young Investigators Symposium, for which he won the 2nd-place award!!! Very proud to have been Logan's supervisor on this exciting project!!

Proud to share another great talk at the COMP ASM. This time by McGill MedPhys student Felix Mathew who is doing his PhD under my supervision. Supported by the NSERC CREATE program (Responsible Health and Healthcare Data Science, sdrds.org) which I am co-PI. #NLP

I'm lucky to work with these experts on getting more data to more patients via Opal.

I'm very proud to report the latest research paper from my lab at McGill: a paper by student Logan Montgomery modelling how neutron radiation damages DNA and may cause mutations that lead to cancer. Next week Logan will defend his PhD thesis! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Congratulations to Dr. Logan Montgomery who successfully defended his PhD thesis this morning on "Spectral measurements and carcinogenic effects modelling of secondary neutrons in radiation therapy". #proudsupervisor!! NSERC / CRSNG Canadian Space Agency

So proud of student Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben who is doing her PhD in my lab for winning the People's Choice Award at the 2021 AAPM Big Data Workshop!! Congrats Kayla!! NSERC / CRSNG

I'm very proud of Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben from my lab at McGill who graduated last week with an MSc degree in Medical Radiation Physics. Congrats Kayla!

Matthias is another of our recent hires to Opal. He heard about Opal from a talk that Tarek & I gave in McGill Computer Science in 2019. Matthias is helping us figure out how the next iteration of Opal will work and it's quite exciting!! Welcome on board Matthias!

"Over the course of the project, #McGill Centre Gen. & Policy will work with all partners to develop a data-sharing framework as well as modern guidelines for academic healthcare collaboration with industry."

By bridging the data gap between patients, researchers, and clinicians, we're working with the Quebec SmartCare Consortium and @opalmedapps to re-establish patients as active partners in their own treatments. #innovation

Congratulations to James Manalad for the presentation of his MSc research at the MCMA 2022 conference in Antwerp. James' poster was entitled "On the Monte Carlo simulation of neutron-induced direct and indirect DNA damage to estimate neutron relative biological effectiveness".

Very proud of Felix Mathew for his excellent presentation at the ImNeudos conference in Krakow, Poland today. It generated lots of excitement and talk of a fundamentally new way of doing biological radiation dosimetry! NSERC / CRSNG Canadian Space Agency CFI / FCI

CIBC has donated $1 million to support @opalmedapps. The award-winning Research Institute of the MUHC (The Institute) developed app empowers patients by putting them at the centre of their care. This generous gift will help expand & enhance the project as it continues to grow beyond the Centre universitaire de santé McGill. Thank you, CIBC!

Very proud of PhD student Hossein Naseri and co-authors for this nice publication in Nature Scientific Reports. Hossein's PhD project is aiming to build a method to automatically quantify pain in the CT scans of cancer patients. This is paper 2 of 3. nature.com/articles/s4159…

I'm super proud of students Hossein Naseri and Kayla O'Sullivan-Steben from my lab who along with fellow McGill Medical Physics student Veng Jean Heng were among 10 students from across Canada who presented in the 2022 COMP Young Investigators Competition.

The Kildea lab was well represented at the COMP 2022 ASM in Quebec City. We had two talks in the Young Investigators Symposium (out of 10) and 4 posters on the floor! kildealab.com

New publication from my research lab by PhD student Haley Patrick. This paper describes rtdsm, a software package Haley developed to enable dose-surface mapping in radiotherapy. Congrats Haley!

Today, we said goodbye to Srishti Ahlawat a #mitacs student from India who worked in the Kildea lab over the summer. She's the person at the back right almost invisible! It was a pleasure to have Srishti working with us and sharing her machine learning expertise!

Congratulations to McGill Medical Physics student Felix Mathew for winning the Anthony J. MacKay Best Student Paper Award at the 2022 joint conference of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and the Canadian Radiation Protection Association!

Congratulations to student Nicolas Desjardins-Proulx for winning a travel award to present at the 1st Canadian Space Health Research Symposium in Calgary last week!