Guest Speaker
Savvakis (Savvas) Nicolaou MD FRCPC FASER
Professor of Radiology / Vice Chair of CPD & Education
University of British Columbia
Director of Emergency / Trauma Imaging
Vancouver General Hospital
Dr. Savvas Nicolaou is the Director of Emergency and Trauma Imaging at Vancouver General Hospital, as well as a Professor of Radiology at the University of British Columbia. He is also the UBC Vice-Chair of undergraduate education and continuous professional development. He completed his medical degree at the University of Toronto, and residency in Diagnostic Radiology at University of British Columbia.
Dr. Nicolaou is often credited with being the Father of Emergency Radiology sub-specialty as he developed the first emergency/trauma radiology fellowship program at Vancouver General Hospital in 1998. Since then, he has trained over 80 fellows internationally, many of whom went on to start their own programs to serve the global community.
Within UBC Faculty of Medicine, he has been involved as the Director of the Undergraduate Radiology Education, where he has helped to integrate radiology into the medical curriculum. He has been the recipient of many teaching awards and was presented with the UBC Killam Teaching Prize in 2013, which recognizes all aspects of outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He was also awarded the prestigious Royal College Regional Awards – Region 1 Prix d’Excellence Specialist of the year in 2018 and Mentor of the year in 2013.
Dr. Nicolaou continues to contribute to the field of emergency radiology, publishing over 170 articles and over 400 abstracts in peer-reviewed conferences. Dr. Nicolaou’s enormous contributions to Emergency radiology was recognized by the American Society of Emergency Radiology as he was named Fellow of the ASER society in 2018, making him the first Canadian Fellow of the society to receive this prestigious award. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology, he is relentlessly investigating ways to develop faster, safer, and more sensitive methods for diagnosing patients in the acute care setting. Major focus areas of research in the acute care setting are on Ultra Low dose techniques, Dual Energy CT, Polytrauma Imaging, Brain Perfusion in trauma and the role of MRI and Artificial Intelligence.
Planning Committee
Joe Choi MD, MPH, FRCPC
Emergency Medicine
University Hospital Network
Emergency Physician
Ivan Diamond MD, PhD, FRCPC
Radiology – Community
Trillium Health Partners
Radiologist
Noah Ditkofsky MD, FRCPC
Radiology, Academic Trauma Centre
St. Michael’s Hospital
Emergency & Trauma Radiologist
Taraneh Jorjany
Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook HSC
Charge Technologist – X-ray
Mike Minoo MRT R
Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook HSC
Charge Technologist – CT & VIR
Rawan Abu Mughli MD
Radiology Training – Fellowship
Sunnybrook HSC
Radiology Fellow
Avery Nathens MD, PhD, FRCS, FACS
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Sunnybrook HSC
Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon
Sadia Rabbani MD
Family Medicine
Westside Doctors
Family Physician
David Wang BHSc (Honours), MD
Radiology Training – Residency
University of Toronto Department of Medical Imaging
Radiology Resident
James Woo MD, FRCPC
Radiology – Community
EXR Medical Imaging, Lakeridge Health, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, Scarborough Health Network
Radiologist
Speakers
Rawan Abu Mughli MD
Emergency & Trauma Radiology
Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Mike Aquino MD MHS
Section Head, Pediatric Emergency Overnight Imaging
Cleveland Clinic Imaging Institute
Eric Bartlett MPH MD
Assistant Professor
Neuroradiology, Head and Neck Division
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Ferco Berger MD EDER FASER FESER
Emergency/Trauma and MSK Radiologist
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Mark Bernstein MD FASER
Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology and Surgery
Trauma & Emergency Radiology
NYU Langone Health Medical Centers / Bellevue Hospital
Aditya Bharatha MD FRCPC
Associate Professor
Division Head of Diagnostic Neuroradiology
St. Michael’s Hospital
Ronald M Bilow MD FASER
Associate Professor and Assistant Chief of Emergency Radiology
McGovern Medical School, University of Texas
Helen Branson B.Sc. MBBS FRANZCR
Assistant Professor
Neuroradiologist, Department of Diagnostic Imaging
The Hospital for Sick Children
Lan-Chau Kha MD MSc FRCPC
Cardiothoracic Radiology
Department of Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Jordan Chenkin B.Sc. MD M.Ed
Assistant Professor
Emergency Physician
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Joseph Choi MD MPH FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Quality Improvement Lead and Attending Physician
University Health Network
Ivan Diamond MD PhD FRCPC
Program Chief and Medical Director (Interim) Diagnostic Imaging
Trillium Health Partners
Noah Ditkofsky BSc MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Division Head – Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Division
St. Michael’s Hospital
Andrea Doria MSc PhD MD
Professor
Staff Radiologist
Hospital for Sick Children
Birgit Ertl-Wagner MD PhD MHBA
Professor of Medical Imaging
Vice Chair Research
Department of Medical Imaging University of Toronto
The Hospital for Sick Children
Hournaz Ghandehari MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Abdominal Imaging Division
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Joel Gross MD
Professor, University of Washington
Director of Emergency and trauma Radiology
Harborview Medical Center
Masoom Haider MD FRCPC
Professor
Head – AI, Radiomics & Oncologic Imaging Research Lab
Mount Sinai Hospital
Paul Hamilton BM MD FFR
Assistant Professor
Division Head, Body Imaging
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Chris Heyn MD PhD FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor
Head, Division of Neuroradiology
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Jamlik-Omari Johnson MD FASER
Chief, Radiology & Imaging Sciences
Emory University Midtown Hospital
Satheesh Krishna Jeyaraj MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Abdominal and Pelvic CT
Mount Sinai Hospital, Women’s College Hospital
Suzanne Laughlin B.Sc. MD FRCPC RCPSO ACR
Assistant Professor
Neuroradiologist, Department of Diagnostic Imaging
The Hospital for Sick Children
Raymond Lawlor
Lecturer
Vascular & Interventional radiologist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Stephen Ledbetter MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Enterprise Medical Imaging Informatics
Mass General Brigham
Shobhit Mathur MD
Assistant Professor
Staff Radiologist
St. Michael’s Hospital
Robert Moreland MD FRCPC
Lecturer
Emergency and Critical Care Radiology
St. Michael’s Hospital
Ashlie Nadler MD MPH FRCSC FACS
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Avery Nathens MD MPH PhD
Senior scientist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Savvas Nicolaou MD FRCPC
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia
Director of Emergency/Trauma Imaging
Vancouver General Hospital
Michael O’Keeffe
Assistant Professor
ER/Trauma Imaging Division
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Anastasia Oikonomou MD, PhD, FRCPC
Αssociate Professor
Head, Cardiothoracic Imaging Division
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Chirag Patel BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCP FRCR
Assistant Professor
Head of Abdominal Imaging Division
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sadia Raheez Qamar FCPS
Assistant Professor
Emergency & Trauma Radiology
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Jason Robins MD, FRCPC
Lecturer
Staff Radiologist – Emergency and Trauma Division
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Aaron Sodickson MD PHD
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
Division Chief, Emergency Radiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Scott D. Steenburg MD FASER
Associate Professor of Radiology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Division Co-Chief, Emergency Radiology
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
Jennifer Stimec MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Dept of Diagnostic Imaging
The Hospital for Sick Children
Sean Symons, BASc MPH MD FRCPC DABR MBA
Affiliate scientist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Aikta Verma MD MHSc FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Chief, Department of Emergency Services
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre