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March 20, 2019
OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Radiologists has announced the recipients of three awards. The CAR Gold Medal has been given to Dr. Bruce Forster (pictured left). The recipient of the CAR Young Investigator Award is Dr. Faisal Khosa, and the recipient of the CAR Distinguished Career Award is Dr. Giles Stevenson.
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March 20, 2019
MONTREAL – PENTAX Canada, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the MSSS (Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux) to deploy a clinical software solution for gastrointestinal endoscopy across Quebec. The endoPRO iQ software from Pentax Medical satisfies the mandate for a clinical solution that is proven and supported by a supplier with experience in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy.
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March 20, 2019
ROCHESTER, N.Y.– Carestream Health has signed an agreement with Royal Philips to sell its healthcare information systems (HCIS) business to Philips. Carestream’s HCIS business unit provides imaging IT solutions to multi-site hospitals, radiology services providers, imaging centers and specialty medical clinics around the world.
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March 20, 2019
REGINA – A Saskatchewan radiologist whose work prompted a review of nearly 70,000 exams has lost a bid to have his defamation suit heard in the country’s top court. The Supreme Court of Canada says it won’t hear arguments from Dr. Darius Tsatsi (pictured), who had sued the province’s former health minister Don McMorris, the Sunrise Health Region and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan.
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March 20, 2019
EDMONTON – Computer scientists at the University of Alberta have developed a neural network that outperforms other state-of-the-art methods of identifying lung tumours from MRI scans.
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March 20, 2019
TORONTO – The federal government’s FedDev Ontario agency has announced a contribution of over $3.9 million for Conavi Medical Inc., a developer and manufacturer of leading-edge medical technologies, to support the expansion and reconfiguration of its production facility in Toronto.
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March 20, 2019
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – NVIDIA has introduced Clara AI, a toolkit that includes 13 state-of-the-art classification and segmentation AIs, and software tools built for radiologists.
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March 13, 2019
HAMILTON, Ont. – After an extensive selection process that drew candidates from across the country, Dr. Tom Stewart, president and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health System and Sonny Monzavi, chair of St. Joseph’s Hamilton Joint Boards of Governors, are pleased to announce the unanimous selection of Melissa Farrell (pictured) as incoming president of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. She will assume the new position April 29, 2019.
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March 13, 2019
OTTAWA – The 4th annual Joule Innovation grant program is under way and, more than ever, aims to drive change in the healthcare system. This year, selected recipients will share $200,000 in grants for initiatives designed to help shape a better healthcare future for all Canadians. Since 2016, the grant program has provided $500,000 to 19 recipients, powering physician-led innovation in the country.
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March 13, 2019
TORONTO – Dr. Ori Rotstein (pictured) has been appointed the new VP of Research and Innovation of Unity Health Toronto, effective May 1. Dr. Rotstein is a surgeon-scientist-administrator who has been serving as surgeon-in-chief at St. Michael’s Hospital since 2004 and director of the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science since 2005.
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