Medical and technical experts make up our high-level Advisory Board
MediSens is curated by a team of medical practitioners and digital imaging experts representative of the full supply chain, and market tested with engineers and clinicians to ensure the agenda is current and relevant for the audience. The Advisory Board will carefully select topics that meet the needs of industry and end users alike, and work with Sense Media to pick out the most qualified professionals and academics to address these pressing issues.

Dimitra Darambara

Team Leader, Multimodality Molecular Imaging,
Institute of Cancer Research
She is a Member of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). She is the current Chair of the IOP Medical Physics Group, the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Mayneord-Phillips Trust and member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) Panel for Biomedical Engineering.


Founder,
Harvest Imaging


Senior Engineer, X-ray Detector Development,
General Electric


Professor, University of Hyogo and Shizuoka University


Project Manager & Senior Scientific Collaborator, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)


Director and Consulting Physicist, Unitive Design and Analysis


Senior Research Fellow,
Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC – a Xerox Company)
Bob’s previous work on digital x-ray imaging has been commercialized through PARC spin-off dPix, the world’s leading source for high-resolution a-Si sensor arrays that provide the foundation for medical, industrial, military, and security X-ray imaging. dPix was acquired by Trixell (a Siemens Medical/ Phillips Medical/ Thomson-CSF joint venture), Planar Systems, and Varian Medical in 1999.
Bob has over 75 patents and has been honored with the American Physical Society David Adler Award and The American Institute of Physics prize for Industrial Applications of Physics. He has published more than 350 papers and articles and has served as Associate Editor of both the Journal of Materials Research and Solid State Science and Technology. Bob has also served on the National Research Council Committee for Material Science and Engineering, as well as the ICAMS (International Conference on Amorphous and Microcrystalline Semiconductors) Program Committee and International Advisory Committee.
Dr. Bob Street holds a Ph.D. and B.S. in physics, both from Cambridge University in England. He joined PARC in 1976.


CEO,
IMASENIC


Deputy General Manager, Medical Imaging Technology Department,
Olympus Corporation


Institute of Integrated Micro and Nano Systems,
University of Edinburgh


Senior Key Expert Research Scientist,
Siemens Healthcare

Associate Director, Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Dr Karim has received the 2009 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Science to Business Fellowship, the 2008 Ontario Early Researcher Award, the 2004 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Prize and Canadian Association of Graduate Studies (CAGS)/University Microfilms International (UMI) Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Science and Medicine in Canada for his work on large area digital medical imaging technology. Professor Karim’s research group is investigating large-area circuit, device and process development using amorphous selenium, polycrystalline silicon and Complementary-symmetry Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor (CMOS) semiconductor technologies. Dr Karim S. Karim received his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2002. He subsequently joined Simon Fraser University where he was an Assistant Professor from 2003 to 2007. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. In the past four years, his group has received 10 best paper and poster awards for research papers authored by his graduate students. He has over 100 publications in the field of large area digital imaging electronics and more than 15 patents filed or awarded. Dr Karim is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Full Member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and a member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
University of Waterloo

Technology & Market Analyst,
Yole Développement
As an example, Marjorie was involved in a project focused on videoscopy for endoscopy application, to understand the benefits of the CCD/CMOS solution and identify business opportunities. In parallel, she performed an analysis of the PET detectors technology to evaluate the impact of innovative Solid-State technologies on the evolution of the nuclear medicine industry.
After spending two years at Harvard, Marjorie served as a research scientist at INSERM in the field of MRI & PET imaging for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and cancers.
She has spoken in numerous international conferences and has authored or co-authored 11 papers and 1 patent.
Marjorie is daily exchanging with clinicians, researchers and industrial partners to understand technology issues and ensure the connection between R&D and applications.
Marjorie Villien is graduated from Grenoble INP and holds a PhD in physics & medical imaging.