Visiting Lecturer Series – Dr. Eno Hysi

Sound Decisions – Exploiting the Propagation of Ultrasonic Waves in Kidneys and Lungs

Lecture Takeaways

The main takeaways are as follows:

• Overview of ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging in medicine
• Innovations in kidney transplantation and chronic kidney disease
• Innovations in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Biography

Dr. Eno Hysi is a distinguished Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging and serves as a Staff Scientist at the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael’s Hospital. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Hysi leads the Translational Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging Laboratory (TUPIL), a pioneering center for collaborative imaging physics and clinical research.

A biomedical physicist with a PhD from the Department of Physics at Toronto Metropolitan University, Dr. Hysi graduated in 2020 with two Gold Medals, underpinned by a prestigious NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. His doctoral research concentrated on developing photoacoustic biomarkers for assessing cancer treatment responses. Subsequently, Dr. Hysi joined St. Michael’s Hospital’s Division of Nephrology as a CIHR Banting and a Kidney Foundation of Canada KRESCENT Fellow. His notable contributions include conducting the first-in-the-world clinical trial that utilized photoacoustic imaging to evaluate the quality of donated kidneys prior to transplantation, an innovation that earned him the 2021 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics.

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