People

Principal Investigators

Dr. Christine Demore

Dr. Christine Démoré is a Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute & Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. She completed her BSc Engineering Physics and PhD Physics, both at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, before moving to the University of Dundee, Scotland, for postdoctoral research, working in the interdisciplinary Institute for Medical Science and Technology. She held the Royal Society of Edinburgh Biomedical Personal Research Fellowship at University of Dundee, then at University of Glasgow, and returned to Canada in 2016. Dr. Démoré has since held numerous industry and academic board positions, and continues to be a driver of innovation in the medical ultrasound sector.

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Dr. Stuart Foster

Dr. Stuart Foster is currently a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and Professor with the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. He is the founder and former Chairman of what is now Fujifilm VisualSonics Inc., a company dedicated to preclinical and clinical ultrasound imaging. Dr. Foster co-founded the Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe), now at the Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the National Cancer Institute of Canada and as Chairman of its Committee on Research (ACOR). Dr. Foster is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an elected Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States.

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Lab Group Members

Emmanuel Cherin

Emmanuel Cherin received his Ph.D degree in Physical Acoustics from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France, in 1998. He then joined the imaging research group at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2001, he occupies a Research Associate position at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, where he is involved in research projects related to high frequency ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, ultrasound contrast agents, and transducer development and characterization.

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Jianhua Yin

Jianhua Yin received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 1990. His previous research involved surface acoustic wave devices and their applications in electronics at Nanjing University, ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation at Tokai University, Shimizu, Japan, and domain study and characterization of piezoelectric crystals at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA. He is currently a Research Physicist with the Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, where he is currently working on finite-element modeling, ultrasound transducers, and arrays design and fabrication.

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Yohannes Soenjaya

Yohannes Soenjaya received his degree in biomedical engineering, and Masters in Engineering and Management from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 2007. He completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from Western University, London, Ontario, Canada in 2016. For his doctoral program, his research involved in mechanisms of bone mineralization and repair, biomaterials, and tissue regeneration specifically for orthopaedic applications. He joined the ultrasound imaging research group in 2017 and currently is a Research Associate at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. He is involved in research projects related to high frequency ultrasound, photoacoustic and contrast imaging, in vivo tumor models, characterization of cells transfected with acoustic reporter genes for ultrasound imaging and potential therapeutic applications, picosecond infrared laser (PIRL) ablation, and application of ultrasound imaging as a screening tool to detect bone fractures.

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Aaron Boyes

Aaron Boyes received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2004. He has since been a researcher at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), Toronto, where he has been involved in the design and testing of several devices that have translated to clinical testing and commercial development. This has included contributions to research projects on prostate cancer therapy, a wearable sensor for blood flow measurement, analysis of ultrasound, magnetic resonance, and histological images. He is currently the Manager of the Device Development Laboratory, SRI.

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Graduate Students

Felipe Roa Garcia

PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto

Nidhi Singh

PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto

Elvira Catalina Vazquez Avila

PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto

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