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.

He then joined Park Medical Systems in Montreal, which commercialized a gamma camera largely based on his design. In 1997, he joined the Nuclear Medicine group at Picker International in Cleveland as Chief Scientist where he helped with the introduction of the first commercial implementation of iterative reconstruction in SPECT imaging, proposed a medium energy transmission device to SPECT and contributed to the first triple-head coincidence imaging on gamma cameras. With the purchase of the Cleveland group by Philips, Daniel became part of the team that developed time-of-flight PET, large-bore PET/CT, sequential whole-body PET/MR and more.

At TMRU, Daniel is responsible for all aspects of the technology enabling ionizing radiation imaging covering CT, Molecular Imaging and X‑ray, from image quality to detector electronics, from reconstruction to acquisition systems. Daniel has more than 50 patents granted and pending and continues to contribute to the advancement of medical imaging.

“Passion is the true driver of Innovation” is his motto and he is constantly looking for competent scientists and engineers sharing his vision.