Meet your Board of Directors!
The Board of Directors is committed to providing a voice for medical physicists in Ontario. Please feel free to contact the team if you have any questions about the OAMP.
President
Katie Lekx-Toniolo, PhD, MCCPM
Katie Lekx-Toniolo is a Medical Physicist at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre. Katie obtained both her undergraduate and PhD degrees in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Western Ontario. Her doctoral thesis was investigating various aspects of ‘hibernating’ myocardium, a specific condition of heart disease where the heart tissue is not functioning appropriately but is still viable. Katie used a variety of imaging modalities in her graduate studies – PET, SPECT, MRI – which set a solid foundation of imaging physics before transitioning to therapy. Katie completed her medical physics residency at the Juravinski Cancer Centre in Hamilton before obtaining a staff position in Ottawa in 2008. She is lead of treatment planning, and is the lead physicist on the breast clinical practice group. She is also interested in incident learning and developing better & afer processes, and has recently joined the residency committee.
Past President
Brian M Keller, PhD, DABR, FCCPM
Dr. Brian Keller is a senior medical physicist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. His educational background includes: B.Sc. in Physics (University of Waterloo), M.Sc. in Radiation Physics (McGill University), and a Ph.D. in Radiation Medicine/Medical Physics (University of Toronto). He worked as a clinical radiation oncology physicist in Miami from 1994 – 2000 during which time he served as a physics consultant to many radiation oncology departments. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology and is a Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine. He is currently the physics lead for the MR-Linac project at Sunnybrook and for research and development associated with the MR-Linac.
Director-At-Large
Luc Serre, MSc, MCCPM
Luc Serre is a Medical Physicist at the Windsor Regional Hospital. Luc obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Windsor’s department of Physics, then went on to obtain his masters degree from McGill University, with thesis focusing on ionization chamber cross-calibration. After a Medical Physics Residency in Windsor, Luc spent 5-months as a Medical Physicist at the Odette Cancer Centre, followed by his current long term employment as a Medical Physicist in Windsor (2011). Luc hold the Radiation Safety Officer title within the Windsor Regional Cancer Program, as well as the Associate Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program. Luc also has an appointment at the University of Windsor, as an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, where he has taught the 4th year Radiation Physics course. Luc’s current work mainly focuses on treatment planning, Radiation Safety, brain HSRT, and the development/implementing software solutions for medical physics and treatment planning.
Director-At-Large
Malcolm McEwen, PhD, FCOMP
Malcolm McEwen is Principal Research Officer in the Ionizing Radiation Standards group within the Metrology Research Centre of the National Research Council Canada. His scientific work focusses on the maintenance and development of primary dosimetry standards for a wide range of beam modalities, from synchrotron x-rays to high-energy protons. He is also involved in leading the development of best practice guidelines and dosimetry protocols, including for megavoltage photon and electron beams, HDR brachytherapy and UHDR dosimetry. Although his research is mainly applied to radiation therapy, he is also active in investigating dosimeters for radiation processing and supports NRC activities in radiation protection dosimetry. Dr. McEwen is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics at Carleton University, Executive Director of the Ottawa Medical Physics Institute, Chair of the International Committee on Ionising Radiation (Section I) of the CIPM, and Vice-president of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists. Most recently, he was elected as a Commissioner of the International Commission on Radiation Units (ICRU). He holds an MSc in Medical Physics from University College London (UK) and a PhD in Radiation Physics from the University of Surrey (UK). Beyond ionizing radiation metrology, he is active within both the NRC and COMP to address factors that impact equitable and full participation in science.
Director-at-Large
Tim Olding, PhD, MCCPM
Tim Olding, PhD, MCCPM is a Medical Physicist at the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario in Kingston and an adjunct assistant professor in the Departments of Oncology and Physics at Queen’s University. He holds a BSc in Engineering Physics, an MSc in Engineering Physics, and a PhD in Physics from Queen’s University. Tim’s clinical and research interests include treatment planning, brachytherapy, end-to-end process validation, and a range of quality improvement initiatives in radiation therapy.