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	Purang Abolmaesumi Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering, Computer / Image Guided Diagnostics, Computer-Assisted Surgery, Digital Pathology, Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis, Ultrasound Imaging

B
	Ali Bashashati Assistant Professor, Director of AI and Bioinformatics Research OVCARE, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Breast Cancer, Cancer Genomics, Computational Biology, Digital Pathology, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Ovarian Cancer, Signal Processing
	François Bénard Professor Radiology Research Focus: Cancer Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, PET/SPECT, Radiopharmaceuticals
	Peter Black Professor, Senior Research Scientist Urologic Sciences Research Focus: Bladder Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Prostate Cancer, Tissue Classification, Ultrasound Imaging

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	Silvia Chang Associate Professor Radiology Research Focus: Abdominal Imaging, Alzheimer's, Liver Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Prostate Cancer, Radiology, Ultrasound Imaging, Urology
	Keng Chou Associate Professor Chemistry Research Focus: Cancer Diagnosis, Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy, Virus-Host Interactions
	Dan Coombs Professor Mathematics Research Focus: Biophysics, Immune Cell Signaling, Theoretical Immunology, Virus Dynamics
	Robin Coope Instrumentation Group Leader Research Focus: Clinical and Research Lab Instrumentation, High Throughput Genomics, Medical Devices
	Leanne M. Currie Associate Professor School of Nursing Research Focus: Health Informatics, Nursing, User-centred design, Wound Diagnosis & Management

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	Bruce Forster Professor Radiology Research Focus: Diagnostic Imaging, Hip Injuries, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Sports Medicine

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	Rafeef Garbi Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Applications, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Medical Image Computing
	Mike Gelbart Instructor Master of Data Science, Computer Science Research Focus: Machine Learning
	Blake Gilks Head of Department, Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Focus: Breast and Gynecological Pathology, Cell Biology, Digital Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Ovarian Cancer
	Kenneth Gin Professor Medicine Research Focus: Cardiac Imaging, Cardiology, Echocardiography, Image Registration, Machine Learning, Ultrasound Imaging
	Martin Gleave Professor Urologic Sciences Research Focus: Androgen Receptor, Cancer Biology, Molecular Inhibitors, Prostate Cancer, Treatment Resistance, Urology
	Larry Goldenberg Professor Urologic Sciences Research Focus: Digital Pathology, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Multi-parametric Ultrasound, PET-Based Diagnostics/Theranostics, Prostate Cancer, Tissue Classification

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	Kurt Haas Professor Cellular & Physiological Sciences Research Focus: Autism, Calcium Imaging, Epilepsy, Neuroscience
	Urs Hafeli Professor Research Focus: Drug Delivery, Magnetic Microspheres, Nanomedicine, Nuclear Medicine, Quantitative Preclinical Imaging, Radiopharmaceuticals
	Ghassan Hamarneh Professor Computer Science Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cancer, Computer Vision, Deep learning, Medical Image Analysis, Radiomics
	David Huntsman Director of OvCaRe, Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Focus: Cancer Genomics, Digital Pathology, Genomic Pathology, Molecular Diagnostics, Ovarian Cancer, Rare Tumours

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	Piotr Kozlowski Associate Professor Urologic Sciences, Radiology Research Focus: Brachytherapy, Cancer Imaging, Luminal Water Imaging, MRI/MRS, Multi-Parametric MRI, Myelin Imaging, Prostate Cancer, Spinal Cord Injury

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	Stephen Lam Professor Medicine Research Focus: Cancer Screening, Computerized Tomography, Diagnostic Imaging, Lung Cancer
	Pierre Lane Senior Research Scientist Imaging Unit, Integrative Oncology Department Research Focus: Autofluorescence Imaging, Cancer Screening, Confocal Microscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography
	Sabrina Leslie Associate Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories Department of Physics and Astronomy Research Focus: Biotechnology, Fluorescent Microscopy, Instrumentation and innovation, Nanoparticle interactions and dynamics, Nanoscale devices, Nucleic acid interactions, Oligonucleotide therapeutics, Single-molecule biophysics
	Xiaoxiao Li Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging, Health Informatics, Machine Learning, Privacy, Trustworthy AI
	Kuo-Shyan Lin Associate Professor Radiology Research Focus: Cancer Imaging, Endoradiotherapy, Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Peptide Receptors, Positron Emission Tomography, Radiopharmaceuticals

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	Hongshen Ma Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering Research Focus: Cell Biomechanics, Cell sorting, Circulating Tumor Cells, Image Cytometry, Machine Learning, Malaria Research, Microfluidics, Single Cell Sequencing, Transfusion medicine
	Calum MacAulay Clinical Associate Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Focus: Confocal Imaging, Digital Pathology, In vivo tissue imaging, Lung Cancer, Molecular Pathology, Prostate Cancer
	Alex MacKay Professor Physics and Astronomy Research Focus: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Myelin Water Imaging, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
	Brian MacVicar Professor Psychiatry Research Focus: Astrocyte, Brain Swelling, Cerebral Blood Flow, Cytotoxic Neuronal Edema, Intracellular Calcium, Intracellular Chloride, Neurovascular Coupling, Two Photon Microscopy, Whole Cell Voltage Clamp
	Kim McGrail Professor Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health Research Focus: Data Governance, Healthcare Equity, Visual Analytics
	Martin McKeown Professor Neurology Research Focus: Basal Ganglia, Cerebellum, Electrodermal Activity, Electroencephalography, Electromyography, fMRI, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Kinematics and Posturography, Parkinson's
	Jim Morris Clinical Professor Surgery Research Focus: Brachytherapy, Focal Therapy, Multi-Parametric MRI, Multi-parametric Ultrasound, Prostate Cancer
	Sara Mostafavi Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 Statistics, Medical Genetics Research Focus: Computational Biology, Computational Medicine, Data Integration, Genetics of Complex Traits, Genomics, Machine Learning, Machine Learning in Computational Biology, Psychiatric Genetics, Regulatory Networks
	Tim Murphy Professor Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Psychiatry Research Focus: Cerebral Blood Flow, Electrophysiology, Huntington Disease, Neurodegeneration, Neurovascular Coupling, Optogenetics, Primary Neuronal Culture, Synaptic Plasticity, Two Photon Imaging

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	Robert Nabi Professor Cellular & Physiological Sciences Research Focus: Breast Cancer, Fluorescent Microscopy, Metastasis, Mitochondrial Dynamics, Single Molecule Localization Microscope, Super-Resolution Microscopy, Tumor Progression
	Chris Nguan Associate Professor Urologic Sciences Research Focus: Allograft Fibrosis, Donor Organ Preservation, Elastography, Kidney Transplantation, Organ Perfusion, Organ Preservation Solution, Organ transplantation, Pharmacokinetics, Ultrasound Imaging
	Savvas Nicolaou Professor Radiology Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Computed Tomography, Emergency Radiology, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Trauma Radiology

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	Alex Rauscher Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neuroimaging Department of Pediatrics Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging, Brain Injury, Concussion, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroscience, Quantitative MRI
	Stefan Reinsberg Associate Professor Physics and Astronomy Research Focus: Image Method Development, Medical Physics
	Robert Rohling Director, Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems, Professor Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging, Elastography, Medical Robotics, Ultrasound Imaging

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	Tim Salcudean Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Cancer Classification, Elastography, Image-Guided Interventions, Medical Image Analysis, Medical Robotics, Prostate Cancer, Teleoperation, Ultrasound Imaging
	Paul Schaffer Associate Laboratory Director TRIUMF Research Focus: Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, Cancer, Imaging Agents, Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Positron Emission Tomography, Radiometals, Radiopharmaceuticals, Therapeutic Agents
	Mark Schmidt Assistant Professor, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Alberta Machine Learning Institute Computer Science Research Focus: Causality, Machine Learning, Numerical Optimizaiton, Probabilistic Graphical Models
	Sohrab Shah Associate Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Focus: Clonal Dynamics, Computational Biology, DNA Repair, Genomic Instability, Genomic Signatures, Homologous Recombination, Next-Generation Sequencing, Ovarian Cancer, Tumour Evolution
	Linda Shapiro Professor Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis, pattern recognition
	Vesna Sossi Adjunct Professor, Professor Physics and Astronomy, Medicine Research Focus: Algorithms, Clinical and Preclinical Imaging, Instrumentation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurodegeneration, Neuroscience, Positron Emission Tomography
	Ingrid Spadinger Clinical Associate Professor Surgery Research Focus: Brachytherapy, Developmental Radiotherapeutics, Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology

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	Aline Talhouk Assistant Professor Obstetrics & Gynecology Research Focus: Bioinformatics, Cancer of the Reproductive System, Computer Science and Statistics, Diagnostic Models, Digital Health, Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Ovarian Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Prevention, Privacy
	Roger Tam Associate Professor Radiology Research Focus: Computer-Assisted Surgery, In vivo tissue imaging, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical Image Analysis
	Shuo Tang Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Biomedical Optics, Biophotonics, Laser Spectroscopy, Melanoma Detection, Multiphoton Microscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography, Skin Cancer Detection
	Teresa Tsang Associate Head Research, Director of Echocardiography, Professor Division of Cardiology, Medicine Research Focus: Cardiology, Data Fusion, Echocardiography, Feature Extraction, Image Classification, Image Processing, Image Registration, Image Segmentation, Machine Learning, Quality Assurance, Ultrasound Imaging

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	Danielle Walker Program Manager, Biomedical Imaging and AI Research Cluster Research Focus:
	Cheryl Wellington Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Focus: Alzheimer Disease, apolipoprotein E (apoE) metabolism, Concussion, Dementia, Neurodegeneration, Traumatic Brain Injury
	David Wilson Professor Orthopaedics Research Focus: Biomechanics, Biomedical Imaging, Hip, Image Processing, Joints, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Orthopaedics, Osteoarthritis
	Alexander Wyatt Assistant Professor Urologic Sciences Research Focus: Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Cell-Free DNA, Immunotherapy, Liquid Biopsy, Precision Oncology, Prostate Cancer

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	Jane Z Wang Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Focus: Brain Data Analytics, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Processing
	Peter Zandstra Professor School of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Genetics Research Focus: Bioengineering, Biological Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging, Biotechnology, Computational Biology, Computational Modeling, Gene/Cell Therapy Systems, Genomics, Immunology, Personalized Medicine, Regenerative Medicine, Synthetic Biology

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