Dr. Scott brings resources, partnerships and thought leadership to health care innovation. He is Chair of the Synapse Life Consortium in Hamilton, and was previously Chief Innovation Officer and Dean of Applied Research at Mohawk College, where he studied Radiography and Sonography. Ted is an expert digital health strategist and has a wealth of experience in industry relations and procurement, as well as innovation policy. He returned to HHS where he started his career as a sonographer after working at The Hospital for Sick Children and Huntsville District Memorial Hospital. Ted is a lifelong learner who earned his Masters of Applied Science in Medical Ultrasound and his PhD in Diagnostic Imaging from Charles Sturt University of Australia.
I am a computer scientist in the Department of Radiology and School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC, with a primary research interest in AI for image analysis and clinical prediction.
Patrick leads engineering for medical imaging within Google's Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences team in Kitchener, ON. As part of this work, he has led the development of the DICOM support in the Cloud Healthcare API and has built imaging integrations for machine learning and large-scale analytics. Previously, Patrick spent 5 years working on Google Ads. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Cook is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has a strong background in imaging informatics, having done her doctoral work in quantitative image processing in the Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory (PICSL) of Dr. James Gee. During her residency, Dr. Cook became heavily involved in clinical imaging informatics research and completed a dedicated year of research as part of her residency. She is the developer of RADIANCE, an open-source software pipeline for CT radiation exposure which was the second available tool worldwide upon its release in 2010. Dr. Cook is an active member of multiple radiology societies, including the RSNA, ACR, SIIM, and AUR. She was one of the two recipients of the 2011 E. Stephen Amis, Jr. Fellowship in Quality and Safety offered annually by the American College of Radiology. In 2013 she was named one of the four AUR GERRAF fellows for 2013-2015. Dr. Cook currently enjoys an academic appointment in radiology that enables her to continue her clinical work and research in imaging informatics. She is the director of the Imaging Informatics Fellowship in the Department of Radiology, as well as the clinical director of the department's 3-D and Advanced Imaging Laboratory. She is also the Co-Director of the Center for Practice Transformation. Dr. Cook’s current research sits squarely at the intersection of imaging informatics and health services. She and her team were awarded one of the first grants from the Penn Center for Healthcare Innovation, in order to develop and study an automated radiology recommendation-tracking engine. In her various roles, she is pursuing innovative methods to improve radiologists' workflow, as well as enhance the delivery of longitudinal patient care in radiology.
Kevin graduated from the University of Waterloo, Canada with a Bachelor's degree in Systems Design Engineering and from the University of British Columbia with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, before moving to Japan to join Toshiba Medical Systems, which was recently acquired by Canon. As an enthusiastic believer in the benefit of standards to medical imaging, he is Chair of DICOM Working Group 10 (Strategy), Chair of the QIBA Process Committee, a past Chair of IHE Radiology, and develops standards in each of those bodies.
David Koff, MD FRCPC, has been Chair of the Department of Radiology at McMaster University and Chief of Diagnostic Imaging at Hamilton Health Sciences for the past 10 years, Professor of Radiology at McMaster University, and founder and director of MIIRCAM, the Medical Imaging Informatics Research Centre at McMaster. For the last 20 years, Dr. Koff’s research has focused on the electronic communication and workflow integration of medical images and he developed the Canadian standards on lossy compression. His current research interests are about aggregation of medical data and medical applications of nanotechnology. He has been a co-founder of IHE Canada (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) and is a member of the IHE section of the Medical Informatics committee at RSNA. He was co-Chair of the IHE International Radiology Planning Committee until 2018.
Dr. Koff created and is currently Chair of Canada Safe Imaging, a joined initiative with Canadian Universities and professional associations to promote radiation safety in Canada. He has been organizing MIIT, the Medical Imaging Informatics and Teleradiology Conference in Canada for the past 14 years.
Don Dennison, co-Chair of MIIT, is an experienced imaging informatics consultant. A Fellow of the College of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), he is a frequent speaker and panelist at SIIM, RSNA, and other conferences. Don has published several articles on a breadth of imaging informatics topics. Don currently serves as Chair or a member of several society committees and recently joined the Journal of Digital Imaging (JDI) editorial board.
Dr. Towbin is a radiologist, the Neil D. Johnson Chair of Radiology Informatics, and Associate Chief of Radiology, Clinical Operations and Radiology Informatics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He is a recognized leader in pediatric radiology and imaging informatics. In his clinical role, Dr. Towbin specializes in pediatric abdominal imaging. His research focuses on clinical informatics, quality improvement, cancer imaging, and imaging of the liver. Dr. Towbin received his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and his fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Apart from his current roles at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Towbin is also an active member of several organizations including RSNA, ACR, the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). He has won numerous awards for his teaching and his research. He is a frequent speaker at meetings across the United States and the world speaking on topics such as customer service, operational planning, enterprise imaging, data management, quality improvement, social media, and the imaging of the pediatric liver tumors. Dr. Towbin is well published having written more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and 110 book chapters.
Christine has been with HDIRS for over four years and is responsible for the Clinical, Technical Operations, Project Management and Security and Privacy Program. She has over 25 years in IT Operations in several major verticals with a strong focus on business enablement through technology.
Dale has 30 years of diverse computing experience and has held a number of senior management positions in the acute and chronic care, Cancer Care, eHealth, outsourced management services, insurance and government sectors. He has directed significant multi-hospital information system and eHealth initiatives and their teams, where work focused on portfolio management, stakeholder engagement, change management, accreditation, re-engineering, developing and implementing regional agreements. Dale has championed the development of one of North America’s largest Health Information Exchanges known as ClinicalConnect™, a provider-facing portal used across south west Ontario. He has been instrumental in attaining multi-million dollar funding grants for work he’s led, and has presented at various eHealth and mHealth conferences, panels and forums. Dale is a member of the Board of Directors and coach for a regional division of Special Olympics’ Alpine Skiing, and is a former director of the Therapeutic Equestrian Association for the Disabled (TEAD).
Brad works as Medical Imaging Alliance Manager with NVIDIA. He has spent his 20-year career to date in the health and medical imaging IT space, driving innovation through integration and interoperability. Brad has served the industry for several years as Co-Chair for HL7 Imaging Integration, DICOM WG-20 Integration of Imaging and Information Systems, and DICOM WG-27, Web Technologies, as well as having published several papers. He previously worked in product management with Agfa HealthCare to develop medical enterprise imaging solutions for hospitals, focusing on web, mobile, and AI aspects. And before that, he worked in the hospital IT system at both academic and rural institutions, where he led implementation, integration, deployment, and support of mission-critical hospital systems (e.g., HIS/EMR, LIS, RIS/PACS, nurse call, networks / telephony, web portals).