Jean-Pierre Bissonnette

SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER

Resiliency in Radiotherapy: True Stories and Lessons Learned

Dr. Jean-Pierre Bissonnette is the Associate Head for Professional and Academic Affairs for the Department of Medical Physics at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre since 2003. Previously, he was the coordinator and then interim Head of Physics at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. He graduated from McGill University with a M.Sc., then obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1996.

Dr. Bissonnette has been active in quality assurance and patient safety, high-precision radiotherapy for the brain and the lung, post-graduate education, and monitoring response of locally-advanced lung cancer to combined chemo-radiotherapy using CT, CBCT and PET images. Current research include dose reconstruction based on image-guidance images, image-based adaptation of therapy and exploring the use of statistical tools to rationalize and limit the cost of quality control work.