Project Leader

F. Stuart Foster, Ph.D. [SRI] Professor and Associate Chair, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Telephone: (416) 480-5716; Fax: (416) 480-5714 Email: stuart.foster @ sri.utoronto.ca URL: University of Toronto URL: Sunnybrook Research Institute

• Pioneering research in high frequency ultrasound leading to 48 peer reviewed publications published or in press in the past 5 years
• Licensed first commercial ultrasound biomicroscopy systems for clinical and small animal imaging applications
• 4 patents held
• Founder and Chairman of the Board of VisualSonics, a new Ontario-based imaging company
• Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
• Winner of the Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology prize (twice)
• Distinguished lecturer for IEEE (ultrasonics) (1995-6)
• Winner of the Eadie Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for major contributions to applied science in Canada (1997)

Principal Investigators

For ease of reference, remaining investigators are listed in alphabetical order.

Raman V. Chirakal, Ph.D. [MU] Associate Professor, Radiology, McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5 Telephone: (905) 525-2100, Ext. 76893;       Fax: (905) 522-2509 Email: chiraklr @ fhs.mcmaster.ca

• Expert in the preparation of PET radio-pharmaceuticals
• Promotion and Tenure Committee in the Department of Radiology, Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University from 1994 to the present

Aaron Fenster, Ph.D., FCCPM [RRI] Professor, Medical Biophysics, Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Western Ontario Director and Scientist, Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute Chair, Imaging Sciences Division, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine 100 Perth Drive, P.O. Box 5015 London, ON L6A 5K8 Telephone: (519) 663-3834; Fax: (519) 663-3900 Email: afenster @ imaging.robarts.ca URL: Robarts Research Institute

• Associate Director, Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Western Ontario
• Holder of a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)
• Dean's Award of Excellence from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario in 1999 (London Advanced Imaging Team)
• 25 patents held and additional six patents pending
• Founding scientist of Enhanced Vision Systems Inc. and Life Imaging Systems, London, Ontario
• Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award for the best paper (other than Radiation Dosimetry) published in Medical Physics for 1996 - with M.S. Westmore and I.A. Cunningham
• 63 peer reviewed papers published in the last five years
• First Prize Award from the World Congress of Endourology in Australia in 1996
• Dean's Award of Excellence for Exceptional Performance in Research from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in 1995

Paula Foster, Ph.D. [RRI] Assistant Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario Scientist, Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute 100 Perth Drive, P.O. Box 5015, London, ON N6A 5K8 Telephone: (519) 663-5777, Ext. 34040; Fax: (519) 663-3900 Email: pfoster @ imaging.robarts.ca URL: Robarts Research Institute

• Young investigator appointed at the Assistant Professor level last year in the Dept. of Medical Biophysics at the University of Western Ontario
• Winner of the I.I. Rabi Award from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 2000
• Research interests involve the development and application of in vivo MRI methods for quantitative analysis of disease in experimental animal models

R. Mark Henkelman, Ph.D., FRSC [SRI/HSC] Professor, Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging, University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Hospital for Sick Children Director, Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe), Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON  M5G 1X8 Telephone: (416) 813-2210; Fax (416) 813-2208 Assistant: (416) 813-2202     Email: mhenkel @ phenogenomics.ca URL: University of Toronto URL: MICe (Mouse Imaging Centre)

• Holder of a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Imaging
• Principal Investigator of a CFI / OIT grant for the "Mouse Imaging Centre for Canada", total project costs $13.2M
• Holder of nine patents and two additional pending in various aspects of magnetic resonance and optical imaging
• Only Canadian ever awarded the Gold Medal by the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Sydney 1998
• Author or co-author of more than 270 publications, most of them in the area of medical imaging. These papers have been cited more than 6,500 times

David W. Holdsworth, Ph.D. [RRI] Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario Senior Scientist, Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute 100 Perth Drive, P.O. Box 5015 London, ON N6A 5K8 Telephone: (519) 663-5777, Ext. 34154/34059; Fax: (519) 663-3900 Email: david.holdsworth @ imaging.robarts.ca URL: Robarts Research Institute

• Research program on cerebrovascular disease and muskuloskeletal disease
• Pioneer in 3-D x-ray imaging techniques applicable for both vessel and bone imaging
• Research Scientist Scholarship from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Premier's Research Excellence Award (1990)

Ting-Yim Lee, Ph.D. [RRI] Professor, Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Medical Biophsyics, University of Western Ontario Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute and Robarts Research Institute Medical Physicist, Radiology Department, St. Joseph's Health Care London 100 Perth Drive, P.O. Box 5015 London, ON N6A 5K8 Telephone: (519) 663-5777, Ext. 34131; Fax: (519) 663-3078 Email: tlee @ imaging.robarts.ca URL: Robarts Research Institute URL: Lawson Health Research Institute

• Principal Investigator for the Imaging Division of LHRI at St. Joseph's Health Centre
• Board of Directors member for the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine since 1996
• Chief Examiner at the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine since 1999
• Co-chair of the CT Panel for Angiogensis Imaging Methodology at the National Cancer Institute (USA) in Lake Tahoe, Nevada in February 2000

Claude Nahmias, Ph.D. [MU] Professor, Radiology, McMaster University Managing Director, Hamilton Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton FSORC, H304, Martha Wing, 50 Charlton Avenue East, Hamilton, ON L8N 4A6 Email: nahmias @ mcmaster.ca

• Director of Research, Academic Department of Radiology at McMaster University
• Chief Scientist of Nuclear Medicine at the McMaster University Medical Centre
• Director of the McMaster PET Program at McMaster University Medical Centre
• Chair of Admissions for the Undergraduate Medical Program at McMaster University
• Associate member of the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brian K. Rutt, Ph.D., FCCPM [RRI] Scientist, Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute Professor, Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Medical Biophysics and Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ontario 100 Perth Drive, P.O. Box 5015 London, ON N6A 5K8 Telephone: (519) 663-5777, Ext. 35818; Fax: (519) 663-3403 Email: brutt @ imaging.robarts.ca URL: Robarts Research Institute

• Senior scientist recruited to Robarts Research Institute and London Health Sciences Center in 1986
• Graduate degrees from Stanford University and University of Toronto
• Postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco
• Pioneering research in MR technology development, particularly aimed at cardiovascular applications
• National and international stature in cardiovascular MRI
• Director of MRC Group in Vascular Imaging and founder of vascular imaging research program at Robarts Research Institute and London Health Sciences Center
• Recognized by local university by Dean's Research Excellence Award (1994)
• First Canadian imaging scientist to be awarded MRC Scientist Award (1994)
• First Canadian imaging scientist to be awarded Heart and Stroke Foundation Endowed Research Chair (1997)
• 51 peer-reviewed papers published or submitted over the last 5 years
• 5 US or international patents issued

John F. Valliant, Ph.D. [MU] Associate Professor, Chemistry, Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON  L8S 4M1 Telephone: (905) 525-9140, Ext. 22840 Email: valliant @ mcmaster.ca URL: McMaster University

• Acting Director, The McMaster Institute of Applied Radiation Sciences (McIARS)
• Editor for Nuclear Medicine and Biology
• Scientific Advisor-Molecular Insight Pharmaceuiticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Research expertise: The development and evaluation of molecular imaging and therapy agents (over 60 publications in the field)