Welcome to the Department of Medical Imaging (formerly the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine) at The Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario. The Department provides medical imaging services to a population of 340,000 in London and tertiary services for a regional population of approximately 1.5 million.  Currently, imaging research plays a key role in health care, drug discovery, cell biology and other life sciences research.

Society for Scholarship in Medical Imaging  Education:  The success of the 1st International Conference on Expanding Scholarship in Radiology Education initiated the formation of a new society.  For more information and updates: http://radiology.edu.uwo.ca

With imaging technology,PACS and the internet rapidly evolving, changes are leading to an inevitable alteration of the way we practice medical imaging in a clinical setting. The nature of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine as we know it has been profoundly transformed. These changes call for innovation in the training of Radiologists and Nuclear Medicine experts of tomorrow. We are well positioned to respond to this call. The department’s clinical, teaching and academic missions are supported by extensive resources that include London Health Sciences Centre, St. Joseph's Health Care and imaging research programs at the Lawson Health Research Institute and Robarts Research Institute. The London hospitals, as the centre of Southwestern Ontario’s PACS facility, are filmless.  The imaging departments and research institutes have the latest in imaging platforms including 3T MRI, volume CT, 3D ultrasound, PET/CT and SPECT/CT.  The Division of Imaging Sciences itself has more than 300 researchers of which some 100 are graduate students in UWO departments of Medical Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, Neuroscience and Kinesiology. We offer national and international clinical fellowship in Neuroradiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. We take pride in our unique research achievements in MRI and 3-dimensional imaging in particular, and are committed to innovative and creative programs that advance our knowledge and understanding as it applies to health care. This year we celebrated the second annual London Imaging Discovery (LID) forum, a unique initiative that captured interest and attention of students and researchers from diverse backgrounds across the University. In addition to excellence in research and patient care, the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine is known for offering outstanding education for its students, residents and fellows. With assistance from the Department’s Division of Imaging Sciences, the department trains Radiology and Nuclear Medicine residents as well as undergraduate students. The department consists of some 40 Radiologists, 10 Nuclear Medicine Specialists and 20 Medical Imaging Scientists. For the first time in the history of the department, we have formed a unique partnership with the Faculty of Education, adding a Director of DRNM Education as well as a Curriculum and Pedagogy Support member to our team. Collaborating with experienced professional educators informs and strengthens curriculum design and implementation, provides guidance and support to Faculty in the ‘art of teaching’, and advances educational scholarship in Medical imaging education. Together, we are creating opportunities to expand medical imaging in many areas, including the integration of imaging modalities, the translation of functional imaging methods, the use of imaging to guide therapies and the development of a molecular and cellular imaging program from cells to humans.      Dr. Rethy Chhem, Tel: 685-8500 x 33277 E-mail: rethy.chhem@lhsc.on.ca