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PEOPLE

 

Management

 

  • Dr. James Drake - Chief of Surgery and Lead

  • Dr. Vito Forte - Hammers and Nail Director

  • Dr. Thomas Looi - Wilfred & Joyce Posluns Innovator

  • Dr. Adam Waspe - MR-HIFU Research Manager 

Clinical Research Members
  • Dr. Maryse Bouchard - Orthopaedic Surgery

  • Dr. Dale Podolsky - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

  • Dr. Clyde Matava - Anesthesiology

  • Dr. Brian Kavanagh - Anesthesiology

  • Dr. Adrian James - ENT

  • Dr. Evan Propst - ENT

  • Dr. Shi-Joon Yoo - Diagnostic Imaging (Cardiac)

  • Dr. Georges Azzie - General Surgery

  • Dr. Ted J. Gerstle - General Surgery

  • Dr. Joao Amaral - Interventional Radiology

  • Dr. Michael Temple - Interventional Radiology

  • Dr. Jaques Belik - Neonatalogy

  • Dr. James Drake - Neurosurgery

  • Dr. Mojgan Hodaie - Neurosurgery

  • Dr. Christopher Forrest - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

  • Dr. John Phillips - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

  • Dr. Walid Farhat - Urology

Research staff​
  • Karolina Priorkowska - Lab Research Project Manager

  • Brandon Peel - 3D Printing Engineer

  • Dr. Robert Nguyen - Research Engineer

  • Dr. Changyan He - Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D. and Master's Students
  • Saba (Seyyedeh) Sadatamin - MR-HIFU Thermal Planning

  • Christopher Knight - Magnetically actuated robotic tools

  • Arion Law - Minimally invasive robotic tools for fetal surgery

  • Matteo Bomben - Hybrid concentric tube robotics

  • Zhiling Zou - Surgical path planning

  • Haley Mayer - Magnetic surgical tools

  • Imogen den Otter - HIFU

  • Suzy Wong - HIFU modeling

  • Rishi Raghuram - MR-compatible HIFU positioning

  • Ava Danialy - MR motion compensation

  • Nancy Wu - Magnetic tool actuation

  • Dr. Grace ThingO - Steerable neurosurgical tools

  • Dr. William Chuk - MR-guided focused ultrasound for orthopaedics

  • Dr. Vivek Bodani - Neurosurgical tool development

  • Alex Gordon - Minimally invasive bone cutting

  • Ashley Deonarain - Trachea modeling

Alumni
  • Arushri  Sawrup - Postdoc fellow @ Imperial College

  • Andrew Lim - Engineer @ Revolve Surgical

  • Claudia Lutfallah - Clinical Engineer @ Galen Robotics

  • Dr. Jongwoo Kim - Assistant Professor @ Kyung Hee University

  • Benjamin Keunen

  • Dr. Satwinder Saini

  • Dr. Zeynep Ucar

  • Dr. Grace Lai - Neurosurgery Resident @Northwestern

  • Gloria Wu - Wearables Mechanical Engineer @ Myant

  • Dr. Nabil Hussein - Cardiothoracic Surgery Registrar @ National Health Service

  • Nathan Soucier - HIFU Engineer @ Profound Medical

  • Saba Sabatien - Lead software design engineer @ Innovere Medical Inc

  • Maggie Scheunert - Clinical engineer @ Auris Robotics

  • Pascal Voyer-Nguyen - Coop student

  • Marko Mikic - Research engineer @ Otosim

  • Kevin Luo - Robotics Engineer @ Sinovation Medical

  • Rami Saab - Founder @ Revolve Surgical

  • Amanda Khan - Medical student @ University of Toronto

  • Sivan Aharon - Software engineer @ Microsoft

  • Luke Maclean - MD/PhD student @ UBC

  • Alex Alvara - PhD student @ University of Berkley

  • Kyle Eastwood - Medical student @ University of Toronto 

  • Matthew Kang - Software engineer @ Swift Medical

  • Vivian Sin

  • Peter Francis - Robotics engineer @ Brachium

  • Dr. Dale Podolsky - Resident @ Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto

  • Peyman Shokrollahi - Post-doctoral fellow @ Diller Lab

  • Justin Wee - Medical student @ University of Toronto

  • Elnaz Shokrollahi

  • Jeremy Tan - PhD student @ Imperial College London

  • Alex Chisholm

  • Faezeh Heydari Khabbaz - Data scientist @ RBC

  • Kunj Upadhyaya - Research assistant 

  • Santosh Iyer - Robotics engineer @ Intuitive Surgical

  • Sameer Zaheer - Imaging development @ Claron Technologies

  • Fouzia Khan - Simulation engineer @ Red Bull Technologies

  • Thomas Hudson - Medical student @ University of Western Ontario

  • Karl Price - Research engineer @ Boston Children's Hospital

  • Robert Brooks - CEO @ SensOR Inc.

 

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