Speaker Biographies
Ran Klein, PhD (Imaging Physicist, Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital)
Ran Klein holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and is Imaging Physicist at The Ottawa Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine. He was previously a Research Associate at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, National Cardiac PET Centre, where he also managed the Cardiac Imaging Core Lab. He has over 15 years research experience in Nuclear Medicine that produced over 100 publications and abstracts. His research is focused on extracting quantitative, physiologic information from cardiac images. His greatest impact has been on quantification of myocardial blood flow using rubidium-82 positron emission tomography which is applied clinically internationally. His research has resulted in commercially available software for image analysis (FlowQuant). Ran’s work on an automated rubidium-82 infusion system is currently being commercialized by Jubilant-DraxImage, Montreal, Quebec. His current interests include quantitative medical imaging and computer aided diagnosis. He is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine, and is also an adjunct professor at Carleton University, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and at the Department of Physics.
Daniel J. La Russa, PhD, FCCPM (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
Dan is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s Department of Radiology and a clinical medical physicist at The Ottawa Hospital’s Radiation Medicine Program. He is also a member of the University of Ottawa’s realizeLAB, which focuses on the application of virtual and augmented reality technologies to medicine, radiology, and radiation oncology.
John O’Neill, (Managing Director, Canadian Additive Manufacturing Solutions, CAMS)
John has 25+ years as a senior executive leader in Sales, Operations, and Service environments. John has been primarily responsible for key products and services within the IT, Digital Print, Production Print and Office Equipment industries. 4 years in the 3D printing industry producing products in colour and plastic. John excels in developing strategies regarding Mergers & Acquisitions, integration/implementation and start-up of lines of business and as well as leader of corporate divisions.
Curtis Pastorius (Managing Director, Canadian Additive Manufacturing Solutions, CAMS)
Curtis has spent 25+ years in high volume automotive manufacturing with experience at senior levels in Foundry Operations, Machining, Injection molding and assembly as well as experience managing operations in NA, Europe and China. In the past few years Curtis has developed expertise in Industrial Additive Manufacturing competence with specific subject matter expertise in a variety of applications, specifically Metal Additive Manufacturing, via working in industry, consulting and educating. His goal to leverage years of manufacturing experience to apply Additive Manufacturing to existing industries.
Dr Frank J. Rybicki (Chief of Medical Imaging, The Ottawa Hospital)
Frank J. Rybicki, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Radiology at the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital. Dr Rybicki is the Medical Director for Imagia, a leader in artificial intelligence. He is also Chair of the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria®. In 2007, Dr. Rybicki introduced wide-area detector CT to radiology. He also made the initial observation that contrast hemodynamics are related to blood flow. Both of these technology is now globally used for patient care and research. Dr. Rybicki pioneered medical 3D printing in healthcare; he is the Editor-in-Chief of 3D Printing in Medicine and in 2014 he founded and was the first Chairperson of the Radiological Society of North America Special Interest Group on 3D printing.
Justin Sutherland, PhD MCCPM (The Ottawa Hospital)
Dr. Justin Sutherland is a clinical medical physicist at the Ottawa Hospital and an assistant professor in the University of Ottawa’s department of Radiology in the Faculty of Medicine. He also acts, 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 and augmented 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, a research initiative from the Division of Medical Physics of the University of Ottawa Department of Radiology.
Alan Thibeau, MRT(N)
Alan is the Professional Practice and Radiation Safety Manager within Medical Imaging at the Ottawa Hospital. In this position, he is responsible for quality, safety and education for approximately 300 MRT’s and sonographers that work at the Ottawa Hospital (TOH). He also is responsible for the safe application of x-rays throughout TOH.
Alan studied at the Institute of Technology in Halifax Nova Scotia in 1978 and began his career as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist shortly thereafter. Prior to his current role, he worked many years as a general duty nuclear medicine technologist, charge technologist and corporate manager. He is currently completing a Master’s degree in Education from Athabasca University.