Assistant Professor Medical Physics Unit McGill University

Dr. John Kildea is a medical physicist at the McGill University Health Center and an assistant professor in Oncology at McGill University.

His research interests are focused on the carcinogenic effects of ionizing radiation for radiotherapy and space travel and the use of informatics techniques to improve the healthcare experiences and health outcomes of patients.

With radiation oncologist Dr. Tarek Hijal, Dr. Kildea co-leads the development of the Opal patient portal (opalmedapps.com). Opal was named Quebec e-Health solution of the year in 2019 by Le Point Santé et Services Sociaux and was awarded the prestigious 2019 Prix d’excellence–Coup de cœur des ministres of the Quebec Ministry of Health.

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Effect of oxygen pressure in cancerous tissue cells on radiotherapy treatments

Student member : Corinne Chouinard

Radiotherapy treatments currently used in the clinical field are rarely modified. They generally consist of a global therapy of 50 grays, fractionated in five treatments of two grays every week for five weeks.
Thus, it could be worthwhile to develop a numeric tool, based on mathematical models found in the literature, in order to compare different types of treatment without having to test them on real tissues. Several parameters are known to alter the tissue response after irradiation including oxygen

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