Emily Heath
Carleton University

Dr. Emily Heath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Carleton University. She obtained her MSc and PhD in Medical Physics from McGill University. She then held a post-doctoral fellowship at the German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, from 2007-2009 before moving to a faculty position in the Department of Medical Physics at Ryerson University in Toronto. In 2014 she moved to Carleton University where her current position involves teaching and supervising students at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as conducting research. Her main research interest is modeling and compensating for anatomical changes during radiation therapy by way of Monte Carlo simulation and novel treatment planning methods.

Bryan Muir
National Research Council Canada

Graeme Wardlaw
Health Canada

Graduated with Ph.D. in Medical Physics from McMaster University in 2010 with a focus on Fractal Dimension Mapping of Microvasculature using clinical BOLD MRI data; however, since early 2009 has been working for Health Canada’s Consumer & Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau (CCRPB) supporting the administration of Radiation Emitting Device regulations and leading or collaborating on a variety of x-ray based radiation dosimetry, digital image quality and testing methodology research projects. His most recent (and largest) project was Canada’s first national survey of computed tomography (CT) machines in Canada, in order to propose national CT diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) – the 122 page report was published in June 2016 and provides dose index and patient examination information collected from approximately 75% of CT units across 12 of 13 provinces and territories.

He is a member of the COMP Imaging Committee, a member of maintenance teams for the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) for both, Computed Tomography (MT 30) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MT 40). He has also served/is serving as an expert member on a number of ad-hoc committees related to staff hiring, and scientific IT support.

Graeme enjoys running and cycling – and is currently training for his first marathon.

Joanna Cygler
The Ottawa Hospital

Dr. Joanna Cygler was born and educated in Poland. Currently she is employed as a Senior Medical Physicist at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, specializing in radiation therapy. Dr. Cygler also holds academic appointments as a Professor at the Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa and as an Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Physics, Carleton University.

She is a Fellow of Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine and a Fellow of American Association of Physicists in Medicine. She has been a member of several Task Groups on subjects such as Quality Assurance of Treatment Planning Systems, Clinical Implementation of Monte Carlo Treatment Planning and Luminescence Dosimetry.

She has authored over 60 peer reviewed scientific papers, over 160 conference abstracts, 7 book chapters, as well as co-edited an 1100 page book on Clinical Dosimetry Measurements in Radiotherapy related to the AAPM Summer School she co-directed in 2009.

Dr. Cygler is also a co-inventor on 2 US patents and a consultant to International Atomic Energy Agency on in-vivo dosimetry.

Paul Naine
Senior Manager, Clinical Operations
Elekta

Elsayed Ali
The Ottawa Hospital

Justin Sutherland
The Ottawa Hospital

Dr. Justin Sutherland is a clinical medical physicist at the Ottawa Hospital. He obtained his MSc in Medical Physics from McGill University and his PhD in Medical Physics from Carleton University. Following his PhD, he did a clinical residency in radiation oncology physics at The Ottawa Hospital – subsequently becoming a member of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine and joining The Ottawa Hospital as a staff physicist. He currently works full time at The Ottawa Hospital while also acting, once a week, as a medical physics consultant for the Alice Hyde Medical Center: a small clinic in New York State.

Apart from clinical duties, Justin currently pursues research in developing and applying novel virtual reality and tracking technologies in medicine, both with the department of radiology and the radiation medicine program. These efforts have lead to his founding and leading realizeLAB (www.tohmedphys.ca/realizeLAB), a research initiative from the Division of Medical Physics of the University of Ottawa Department of Radiology.