Case-Based Imaging From Head to Toe

May 29, 2025

Faculty

Conference Director

Kate Hanneman

Kate Hanneman MD MPH FRCPC
Associate Professor and Vice Chair Research
Department of Medical Imaging
Cardiac Radiologist
Joint Department of Medical Imaging

Kate Hanneman MD MPH, is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research at the University of Toronto and a Clinician Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. She is the Deputy Lead for Sustainability at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging and University Medical Imaging Toronto. She is the chair of RSNA’s annual meeting program planning committee and is an Associate Editor with Radiology, Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. She leads an active research program focused on environmental sustainability and improving health outcomes for patients using cardiac imaging.

Conference Planning Committee Members

Tanya Chawala

Tanya Chawala MRCP FRCR FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Staff Radiologist
Joint Department of Medical Imaging

Tanya Chawla is a staff radiologist at the University of Toronto Joint Department of medical imaging.She trained in medicine at the Imperial college (Charing cross and Westminster medical school) in London UK, undertaking her radiology residency in Southampton UK and a body imaging fellowship at the university of Toronto
She is the divisional head for abdominal imaging at the university of Toronto and has a sub speciality interest in GI and Gynaecological imaging .
She has had a lifelong interest in education and is the director of the Advanced Imaging education centre at the university of Toronto and chairs the planning committee for the annual scientific meeting for the Canadian association of radiologists.
She is also the newly appointed president for the Canadian society of Abdominal radiology(CSAR)

Michael Patlas

Michael Patlas MD, FRCPC FASER FCAR FSAR
Professor and Chair
Department of Medical Imaging
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto

Michael N. Patlas, MD, FRCPC, FASER, FCAR, FSAR, is a Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Imaging, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal and five radiology books, and author of over 230 peer-reviewed papers, editorials, and book chapters. Michael presented 262 invited lectures and scientific and educational abstracts. His Editorial Board memberships (past or current) include journals such as AJR, Diagnostic & Interventional Imaging, La Radiologia Medica, Emergency Radiology, Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Current Radiology Reports and Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science. Dr.Patlas is a President of Canadian Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Radiology Society. He is an honored fellow of the American Society of Emergency Radiology, the Canadian Association of Radiologists, and the Society of Abdominal Radiology. Dr.Patlas received Gold Medal from the European Society of Emergency Radiology in 2022, and Medal of Excellence from the Canadian Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Radiology Society in 2024.

Moderators

Errol Colak

Errol Colak MD FRCPC
Associate Professor (Odette Professorship in Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging),
Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Abdominal Radiologist, St. Michael’s Hospital

Dr. Colak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto. Dr. Colak has authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles, lectured both nationally and internationally, and received multiple teaching awards from the University of Toronto residency program. His research interests include machine learning applications in medical imaging, pelvic floor disorders, genitourinary imaging, and quality improvement initiatives.

Dr. Errol Colak received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Toronto. He completed his residency training at the University of Toronto followed by a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and Intervention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He was awarded the Odette Professorship in Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging in 2019.

Derek Muradali

Derek Muradali BSc MD MDCM FRCPC ABR
Professor
Department of Medical Imaging
Staff Radiologist
St. Michael’s Hospital

Derek Muradali is a Professor of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. He completed his 9 year tenure as Radiologist in Chief of the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) and was the previous Head of the Division of Breast Imaging, University of Toronto, for 20 years. He has authored multiple publications and book chapters on breast imaging and ultrasound, and has lectured extensively on those topics. His main areas of research include techniques involved in improving breast cancer staging and breast cancer screening.

Birgit Ertl-Wagner

Birgit Ertl-Wagner MD PhD MHBA
Professor of Medical Imaging
Derek Harwood-Nash, Chair of Pediatric Neuroradiology
Radiologist-in-Chief
Senior Associate Scientist, Research Institute
Hospital for Sick Children

Anish Kirpalani

Anish Kirpalani MASc MD FRCPC
Chief, Department of Medical Imaging, St. Michael’s Hospital
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto

Dr. Anish Kirpalani is the Chief of the Department of Medical Imaging, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and an abdominal and cardiovascular radiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. He has previously served as the Division Head for Abdominal Radiology, and the medical lead for the MRI Research Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and has given over 50 invited lectures nationally and internationally, mostly in the fields of abdominal and cardiovascular MRI. Dr. Kirpalani also serves as a mentor with the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Pascal Mosimann

Pascal Mosimann MD PD
Associate Professor
Division Head
Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology
Toronto Western Hospital, UHN

Professor Mosimann was born and raised in Switzerland and is the Division Head of Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology at the Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, since February 2023. He is trilingual in English, French and German and Professor of Medical Imaging/ Neuroradiology with a cross-appointment in Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mosimann joined JDMI’s Neuroradiology Division in July 2022. He was recruited from Essen, Germany, where he served as the Chief Deputy/Vice Head at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus. Alongside Professor Chapot, he invented new treatment techniques and is one of the few experts worldwide to master the art of transvenous embolization to cure brain AVMs. Prior to that, he held privileged leadership positions in the University Hospitals of Bern and Lausanne, in Switzerland.

He has published ~ 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and raised over $3 million in grant money. His current research interests focus on clinical and translational device development to better treat ischemic stroke, brain aneurysms & arteriovenous malformations, as well as venous outflow related pathologies causing pulsatile tinnitus or raised intracranial hypertension.

His team is developing a new generation of guide wires for enhanced neurovascular navigation, biocompatible photosensitive hydrogels to occlude aneurysms, endovascular sympathetic denervation probes to treat cerebral vasospasm, as well as the next generation of flow-driven, magnetically steerable, robotically-assisted microcatheters that may enable remote interventions in the near future. Dr. Mosimann is widely acclaimed and internationally recognized for his mentoring skills and expertise in novel, ground-breaking interventional techniques for complex neurovascular diseases, in particular brain pial and dural AVMs and aneurysms.

Heidi Schmidt

Heidi Schmidt MD FRCP(C)
Professor
Department Head Medical Imaging
Program Medical Director
Joint Department of Medical Imaging

Heidi Schmidt is the Radiologist-in-Chief of the Joint Department of Medical Imaging (JDMI) at the University Health Network, Sinai Health and Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, and Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto.

She trained in Germany, where she finished her residency in diagnostic radiology in 1993. Following a research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 1994, Dr. Schmidt was on faculty of the Department of Radiology at UCSF until 2002.

After her recruitment to Toronto in 2002, her research focused on lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography, both as a site in the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP), as well as a site in the Pan-Canadian Early Lung Cancer Detection Study. Since 2017, Dr. Schmidt is the Radiology Quality Lead of the High Risk Lung Cancer Screening Pilot at Cancer Care Ontario.

Speakers

Sanjeev Bhalla

Sanjeev Bhalla MD
Professor of Radiology
Vice-Chair of Education
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

Sanjeev Bhalla, MD, is a professor of radiology and chief of cardiothoracic imaging at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He also co-directs the body CT service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In 2015, Bhalla was named vice chair for education, where he helps oversee MIR’s programs for medical students, prospective trainees, current trainees and alumni. An alumnus of MIR’s diagnostic radiology residency and fellowship programs, he was named chief resident in 1998 and fellow of the year in 2000.

Ben Fine

Ben Fine SM MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Clinician Scientist, Institute for Better Health
Radiologist, Trillium Health Partners

Ben Fine is Radiologist and Clinician Scientist at Trillium Health Partners. He leads the AI Deployment and Evaluation Lab at the hospital-affiliated population health research Institute for Better Health focused on externally validating AI tools using real-world, diverse data and users. Dr. Fine is the department lead for Quality and Informatics. He is the AI Lead for the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. Dr Fine holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MD from the University of Toronto.

Kartik Jhaveri

Kartik Jhaveri MD FRCPC DABR FSAR FSABI
Professor
Continuing Education Program Director
Director, Abdominal MRI
Joint Dept of Medical Imaging

Kartik S. Jhaveri, MD FRCPC is a Professor of Radiology and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of Abdominal MRI and has been an Abdominal Radiologist since 2001 in the Joint Department of Medical imaging (JDMI). He is also the Director of Continuing Education for Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto.

His research focuses on abdominal MRI technologies, contrast media and applications, particularly for hepatobiliary diseases including HCC, cholangiocarcinoma, as well as liver transplantation, rectal and renal cancer. Development and clinical translation of quantitative MRI biomarkers particularly for diffuse liver diseases are a special focus. Dr. Jhaveri has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, book chapters and scientific presentations. He also served as Assistant Editor for the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Ania Kielar

Ania Kielar BSc MD FRCPC
Associate Professor
Abdominal Imaging
Toronto General Hospital

Ania Kielar is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the American College of Radiology. She completed her medical school and radiology residency at the University of Ottawa. Then she completed a fellowship in abdominal imaging at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

She joined JDMI in 2018 and is the deputy chief of radiology at JDMI with a portfolio of quality and practice improvement. She sits on the quality committees at UHN and Sinai Health.

She is also Vice Chair, at large, of Radiology at the University of Toronto.

Currently, she is the president Canadian Radiologists Association, representing over 2500 Canadian radiologists at the national level.

Dr. Kielar serves on various national and international committee including roles at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for the Radiology exam, as well as the Oversight Committee for the Society of Abdominal Radiology.

She has 125 peer reviewed publications and 15 book chapters with a research focus on standardization and radiology error reduction.

Supriya Kulkarni

Supriya Kulkarni DMRD DNB FRCP(C) FSBI
Breast Division Head & Associate Professor
Department of Medical Imaging
Staff Radiologist
Joint Department of Medical Imaging
University Health Network

Supriya Kulkarni is the divisional head & associate professor, department of medical imaging at the University of Toronto.

Her clinical engagement is at University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital and the Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada for over 20 years in the subspecialty practice in Breast Imaging.

Dr. Kulkarni’s special focus is in teaching and education internationally and is a recipient of several teaching awards for contributing to cancer education.

She currently manages continuing professional development initiatives for the breast division of the University of Toronto and national and international educational initiatives for Canadian Society of Breast imaging where she serves as a board member.

She serves in an advisory capacity for multiple initiatives provincial screening program, transgender screening policy and breast imaging guideline development for the Canadian Association of Radiologists.

Danny Mandell

Danny Mandell MD, PhD, FRCPC
Associate Professor & Division Lead, Neuroradiology, University of Toronto
Deputy Head, Division of Neuroradiology, JDMI

Daniel Mandell has practiced at the University Health Network / Joint Department of Medical Imaging since 2011. He serves as Deputy Head of the Division of Neuroradiology at JDMI and Division Head of Neuroradiology at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Mandell studied medicine at McMaster University, and completed his specialty training in radiology and neuroradiology at the University of Toronto. He is Board certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology. Dr. Mandell was the first neuroradiologist to complete the Royal College Clinician Investigator Program and he received his PhD from the University of Toronto for work on functional magnetic resonance imaging of cerebrovascular disease.

Dr. Mandell’s research focuses on imaging to prevent stroke and cognitive impairment. This research was used in a recent U.S. National Institutes of Health public health campaign, and his ongoing work is funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Linda Probyn

Linda Probyn MD, FRCPC, FCAR
Associate Professor and Vice Chair Education,
Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Sunnybrook Hospital

Dr. Probyn completed her MD at Western University and residency training at McMaster University in Diagnostic Radiology, followed by a fellowship in Musculoskeletal Imaging at the University of Toronto. She is an Associate Professor and Musculoskeletal Radiologist at the University of Toronto and the past Program Director for the Diagnostic Radiology program. Dr. Probyn is now the Vice-Chair of Education for the Department of Medical Imaging and the current Chair of the Specialty Committee for Diagnostic Radiology at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Dr. Probyn has a long-term interest in promoting and supporting medical education at all levels of training along the continuum of learning. She provides multiple workshops and mentorship for program directors and leaders in medical education to support programs and learners. She has published several scholarly articles and presents her work and teaches at many National and International conferences and has won awards for her scholarly work. She has been instrumental in organizing local and national resident and faculty development sessions for the delivery of curriculum and new assessment tools for PGME learners and leaders. Dr. Probyn has developed multiple leadership workshops for senior resident leaders who will be part of the future of medical education and the medical profession.


Faculty Disclosure:

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