MI is excited to announce our new Special Advisor to the Chair, Prof Dr. Elka Miller! Dr. Miller will begin her initial 1-year term on Feb. 1, 2026 & will focus on providing advice and support to new and junior faculty members applying for Continuing Faculty Appointment Review.
YOU'RE INVITED! After the huge success of last year's inaugural fundraising and networking dinner, we're excited announce that, by popular demand, we are hosting our second AI in MI Networking Night on May 28, 2026! Get your tickets here: https://t.co/oIoLBAJsYj
Congrats to Dr. Errol Colak, Assoc Prof & Odette Professorship in AI for Medical Imaging, who was recently appointed as Chair of the @RSNA AI Committee! Dr. Colak also received the 2025 RSNA Honored Educator award, recognizing his dedication to furthering radiology education.
PGY1 Diagnostic Radiology Resident Dr. @RakhshanKamran recently led a new scoping review into the landscape of AI application in pediatric radiology, which was covered in @ScienceMagazine. Great work, Dr. Kamran! Read the article here: https://t.co/HoQjidj4SV
MI PGY1 DR Resident Dr. @RakhshanKamran recently co-authored a study that assessed existing core outcome sets & developed standardized outcome measurements to be applied to each domain of the previously developed core outcome set: https://t.co/R26KIVJexv
Congrats to Adjunct Asst Prof Dr. Petrina Causer, who was recognized by @CancerCare_ON for her contributions to the PEBC* last year, particularly as expert panel member on #17-10 Version 2 Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction in Patients with Non-Metastatic Breast Cancer.
MI is starting the year off with leadership promotions! Congrats to our new #CardiothoracicImaging Division Lead, Asst Prof Dr. @felstorres! Dr. Torres will start his new position on Feb 1, 2026, for an initial 1-year term, taking over from Prof Dr. @ElsieRadiology's 6-year term.
Congrats to Assoc. Prof Dr. Errol Colak, who accumulated numerous professional achievements last year, including his recent appointment as Chair of the RSNA AI Committee! Dr. Colak also received the 2025 RSNA Honored Educator Award, recognizing his many contributions to the @RSNA
A new paper from MI PGY1 Diagnostic Radiology Resident Dr. @RakhshanKamran and MI Chair Dr. Michael Patlas, published in the CARJ, discusses the numerous changes felt historically & currently by radiologists and how they can lead change management: https://t.co/px9oRQiW33
Happy Holidays from MI! The University of Toronto and the Department of Medical Imaging will be closed from Dec. 24 - Jan. 2, 2026. We wish you a happy holiday season and we'll see you in the New Year!
Congrats to MI Prof & Cardiothoracic Imaging Division Lead Dr. Elsie Nguyen, who was 2nd author on an educational exhibit examining a multidisciplinary framework for implementing cardiovascular risk screening in mammography, which received a Certificate of Merit from the @RSNA!
@oarinfo@SickKidsNews@imagingtoronto@Sunnybrook@UnityHealthTO Thank you to staff/fellows:
Fellows Dr. Kevin Phillips & Dr. Conor Reid, UHN
Asst. Prof Dr. Guan Huang & fellow Dr. Jesse Ende, St. Michael's Hospital
Asst. Prof & Dir., DR Residency Dr. Charles Yan, Sunnybrook
Prof Dr. Govind Chavhan & Asst. Prof Dr. Caroline Rutten, SickKids
MI hosted its inaugural Citywide Subspecialty Research & Networking Night, sponsored by @OARinfo, earlier this week & it was a huge success! The evening opened with a talk about OAR member benefits before fellows & staff from MI sites delivered their presentations.
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@oarinfo@SickKidsNews@imagingtoronto@Sunnybrook@UnityHealthTO Thank you to Abdominal Imaging Division Lead & VC, CPD, Dr. Tanya Chawla, DR Chief Res. Dr. Anahita Malvea & Dep. Chief Res. Dr. Sabreena Moosa for organizing the first subspecialty networking event, and to MI Chair Dr. Michael Patlas for his support!
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Congrats to Senior Author Dr. Micheal McInnis, Asst. Professor & the team behind the presentation, "PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE (PVOD) AND PULMINARY CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMATOSIS (PHC): KEY IMAGING FINDINGS," which received a Magna Cum Laude Award at the @RSNA annual meeting!
Congratulations to Senior Author Dr. Felipe Sanchez Tijmes, Asst. Professor & the team behind the abstract, "IMAGING SURGICALLY REPAIRED CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE. WHAT THE RADIOLOGIST NEEDS TO KNOW," which received a Magna Cum Laude Award at the @RSNA annual meeting this month!
Congrats to Dir., Data Science, Pascal Tyrrell, PhD, who received @RSNA's 2025 Science Poster Award for his poster introducing RADFORMER, a self-supervised transformer-based radiomics foundation model designed to improve the robustness & reproducibility of radiomics pipelines.
Congratulations to Senior/Presenting Author Dr. Jorje Abreu-Gomez and team who received a Certificate of Merit for their presentation, "STANDARDIZED LANGUAGE, SMARTER SURVEILLANCE: MRI LEXICON FOR PROSTATE CANCER FOLLOW-UP" at the @RSNA's Annual Meeting last week!