Jeff Kolthammer, Director of Molecular Imaging R&D, has worked in the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging field for 15 years, often at the intersection of clinical, academic and industrial settings. His CV lists fifty papers and abstracts, a handful of patents and suggests a penchant for teaching, learning, and advising.
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Daniel Gagnon, Ph.D.
Daniel joined TMRU in September 2008 from Philips Healthcare where he was Director of Advanced Development and Clinical Science for the division of Nuclear Medicine. He contributed to the re-architecting of the modern PET system to produce the first commercial time-of-flight system. With a first degree in Engineering Physics and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Daniel started his career at the Montreal Heart Institute as staff physicist and clinical assistant in the Department of Radiology of the University of Montreal where he authored multiple papers on the analysis and correction of scatter in nuclear imaging and developed the foundations of the first all-digital, maximum likelihood, gamma camera.
Richard Mather, Ph.D.
Rich joined TMRU in April 2009 from Toshiba America Medical Systems where he was Senior Manager of Clinical Science for the CT Business Unit. He developed clinical application research with luminary clinical collaborations, represented Toshiba in multicenter clinical trials such as CorE64, and created whitepapers on Toshiba CT technology. Rich earned his undergraduate degree in Physics from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and has over 17 years experience in medical imaging. Rich began his career at Imatron, Inc as a software engineer and clinical scientist where he developed cardiac perfusion and wall motion clinical applications and helped to develop scan control software. He spent 2 years as a CT Program Manager at GE before joining Toshiba in 2004.
Kevin O’Donnell
Kevin started developing nuclear medicine software in Japan in the early 1990s, which led to the intersection of workflow and informatics. Toshiba’s steady commitment to standards has meant that he has had the opportunity to take on leadership roles in these activities, including currently vendor chair of the DICOM Standards Committee, member of the IHE International Board, advisor to the QIBA Steering Committee and until recently co-chair of the IHE Radiology Planning Committee. Within DICOM and IHE, Kevin has been able to work on or author standards to facilitate tracking radiation dose, coordinate multi-system workflows, and improve distribution of digital imaging. More recently in QIBA, work has begun on standards to improve the ability of scanners to be reliable measurement devices as well as imaging devices.