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Scott Ernst, MD. FRCPC

Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Medical Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical care; Translational research; Prostate, Kidney and Urothelial Cancer, Cutaneous Malignancies, National Melanoma Registry.

Aaron Fenster, PhD, O.ONT, FCAHS, FCCPM, FCOMP, FSPIE, FIEEE, FAAPM, FIOMP

Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Oncology, Medical Imaging, and Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Chair, Division of Imaging Sciences, Department of Medical Imaging, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Scientist, Imagine Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute. Co-Program Director, OICR Imaging Program, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer, Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization.

Research Interests / Specializations: Imaging of cancer, image-guided interventions and therapy of cancer.

Peter Ferguson, PhD

rETIRED-Adjunct Professor , Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute. Research Associate, Cancer Research Laboratory Program

Research Interests / Specializations: Anticancer Drug Development - antisense technology, small molecule inhibitors of DNA repair; tumour treatment methodologies - combination therapy, synergistic sensitization to anticancer drugs; tumour cell biology.

Ricardo Fernandes, MD.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Medical Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical - Breast and Genito-Urinary Cancers. Early phase drug trials, immunotherapy, cancer and biomarkers and microbiome studies.

Barbara Fisher, MD. FRCPC

Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Radiation Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre

Research Interests / Specializations: Radiation Oncology; Biomarkers; GI & Brain cancer; Clinical care; Translational research; Image-guided radiation treatment; Metastasis

Paula Foster, PhD

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Scientist, Robarts Research Institute. Leader, Cellular & Molecular Imaging Program.

Research Interests / Specializations: Breast cancer; Imaging of occult metastasis; MRI

Jefferson Frisbee, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Skeletal muscle and cerebral microcirculation, regulation of tissue/organ blood flow, impact of elevated cardiovascular disease risk on microvascular function, vascular disease with chronic stress and depression, microvascular regression with cardiovascular disease, application of chaos theory to microvascular network function.

Stewart Gaede, PhD, MCCPM

Associate Professor, Departments of Oncology, and Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Chief Medical Physicist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Multi-modal Image-Guided Radiation Therapy, Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy, and Respiratory Motion Management

Neil Gelman, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics, and Department of Medical Imaging, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Breast cancer imaging: MRI, hybrid PET-MRI.

Danilo Giffoni, MD. MSc.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Medical Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geriatic Oncology, Breast Cancer, including areas of investigating the equivalence between different systemic treatment strategies

Elizabeth Gillies, PhD

Professor, Departments of Chemistry, and Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Contrast agents; Nanoparticles; Biodegradable polymers for cancer imaging & therapeutic agent delivery

Chris Goodman, MD. FRCPC.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Radiation Oncologist (head & neck, GI, thoracic), London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre

Research Interests / Specializations: Stereotactic radiation, clinical trials, quality improvement, and innovation in education.

S. M. Mansour Haeryfar, PhD.

Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology, Medicine, Oncology, and Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Conventional and Innate-like T Cell Responses in Cancer and Infectious Diseases.

Mike Hallett, PhD.

Western Research Chair, Bioinformatics. Professor, Departments of Biochemistry, and Oncology. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Markers of patient benefit from radiation therapy for in situ breast cancer. Causal networks underlying breast cancer subtype differentiation. Systems approaches to the construction of probabilistic biomarker panels.

Caroline Hamm, MD. FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Windsor. Associate Professor and Chair, Windsor Division, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry - Windsor Campus. Executive Committee Member, WE-SPARK Health Institute. Chair, Academic and Research Committee, Windsor Regional Hospital. Clinical Research Director, Windsor Cancer Research Group. Medical Oncologist, Cancer Program, Windsor Regional Hospital.

Research Interests / Specializations: Triple negative breast cancer, clinical trials accrual, malignant hematology and melanoma.

Joelle Helou, MD. FRCPC.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Radiation Oncologist, specializes in breast cancer, GU malignancies, prostate brachytherapy, and extra cranial SBRT, London Regional Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Prostate Brachytherapy, extracranial SBRT, patient reported outcomes with an emphasis on quality of life measurement and health economics.

David J. Hill, D.Phil, FCAHS

Professor, Departments of Medicine, Physiology & Pharmacology and Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Lawson Professorship in Diabetes Research. Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Research Interests / Specializations: Research focuses on the generation of new insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas as a strategy for the reversal of diabetes.

Jenny Ho, MD. FRCPC.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. Hematologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Hematology, Myeloid Leukemia

Douglas Hoover, PhD. MCCPM.

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University. Medical Physicist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Prostate cancer, lung cancer, brachytherapy, functional imaging, machine learning

Christopher Howlett, MD. PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Pathologist, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Neuroendocrine tumours, lymphoma, molecular pathology.

Cyrus Hsia, MD. FRCPC

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Laboratory, Western University. Hematologist, London Health Sciences Centre. Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute. Associate Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine Laboratories, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Hematology and Transfusion Medicine

Pingzhao Hu, PhD.

Associate Professor, Departments of Biochemistry, Computer Science, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Associate Scientist, CHRI, and LHRI. Canada Research Chair (CIHR Tier 2).

Research Interests / Specializations: Developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine. Building the bridges between artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning, statistics and multimodal health data (mainly omics data).

Elizabeth Huynh. PhD. DABR.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Oncology, and Medical Biophysics. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Medical Physicist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: My research interests are: image-guided radiation therapy, adaptive radiation therapy, multi-modality imaging and predicting clinical outcomes.

Brant Inman, MD. MS. FRCSC.

Chin-Hardie Chair, Urologic Oncology. Professor, Departments of Surgery (Urology), and Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Oncology, Western University. Scientist, Cancer Research Laboratory Program, London Health Sciences Centre. Urologic Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Genitourinary cancers (prostate, bladder, kidney, penis, testis), Biomarkers, Translational research, Heat-targeted therapies & nanoparticles, Tumor immunology & immunotherapies, Clinical trials.

Ji-Hyun Jang. MD. FRCPC

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Gynecologist Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical: Gynecologic Oncology. Research Interests: Cancer Survivorship, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology.

Murray Junop, PhD

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Western University.

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the molecular mechanisms governing repair of various types of DNA damage. Bacterial, yeast and human repair pathways are studied using a variety of genetic and biochemical tools, with the primary emphasis being determination of macromolecular structure using X-ray crystallography.

Richard Kim, MD. FRCPC

Professor & Chair, Division of Clinical Pharmacology. Associate Chair of Research, Department of Medicine. Director, Centre for Clinical Investigation & Therapeutics. Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute. Scientist, Children's Health Research Institute. Wolfe Medical Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics.

Research Interests / Specializations: Personalized Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Drug Metabolism, Drug Transport

Joan Knoll, PhD.

Laboratory Medicine, Pathology

Research Interests / Specializations: Laboratory Medicine; Molecular Pathology; Clinical genetics; Breast cancer; Translational research

Jim Koropatnick, PhD

RETIRED: Microbiology & Immunology, Oncology (Experimental),Physiology & Pharmacology, Pathology; Professor, Departments of Oncology, Microbiology & Immunology, Physiology & Pharmacology and Pathology Distinguished Oncology Scientist, LRCP; Director, Cancer Research Laboratory Program, LRCP; Assistant Director, Lawson Health Research Institute; Director, CIHR Strategic Training Initiative in Cancer Research and Technology Transfer (CaRTT)

Research Interests / Specializations: Molecular mechanisms of cancer; Antisense therapeutics; translational research

Sara Kuruvilla, MD. FRCPC.

Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medical & Dentistry, Western University. Medical Oncologist, London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre. Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute.

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical care, Thoracic oncology; Head and Neck oncology, Clinical Trials, Evaluating factors that could impact survivorship in the treatment of thoracic and head/neck cancers, Medical education, Real world evidence generation.