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Daniel Pajek received a B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2008. During this time, he worked in research engineering roles at the Advanced Interface Design Lab at the University of Waterloo and at cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) labs at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto. Following graduation, he worked in industry for two years at Deloitte, Toronto, in their Technology Consulting arm. In this role he was involved in implementing large-scale financial and inventory man- agement technology systems to clients across Canada. In 2012, he began his graduate studies at the University of Toronto pursuing his research at the Focused Ultrasound Laboratory at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto. Daniel is currently pursuing a Ph.D. with a focus on the application of high intensity focused ultrasound to the treatment of ischemic stroke.
Kullervo Hynynen received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K. He was with the faculty at the University of Arizona, Tucson, during 1984, after completing postdoctoral training in biomedical ultrasound from the University of Aberdeen. He joined the faculty at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, in 1993, where he reached the rank of Professor, and founded and directed the Focused Ultrasound Laboratory. He joined University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. He is currently the Director of the Physical Sciences Platform at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, and a Professor in both the Department of Medical Biophysics and the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) at the University of Toronto. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Imaging Systems and Image-Guided Therapy awarded by the Government of Canada.
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