Meet our new trainees

UT DRO has one of the largest radiation oncology training programs in the country. Please join us in welcome the five new PGY1 residents, two new Physics residents,  and ten new fellows who have joined us this summer and fall.

PGY1 Trainees at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Jenna Adleman
Jenna Adleman grew up in Mississauga. She completed a BSc in Biomedical Science at the University of Waterloo, followed by an MSc in Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences and MD at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests include research, medical education, and global health. She also enjoys travelling and playing sports.

Mohammad Hasan
Mohammad joins us from Kuwait. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and his Master of Research in Clinical Sciences from the University of Liverpool. Professionally, he is interested in CNS malignancies, pediatric malignancies, pain management, medical education, and clinical trial methodology. Personally, Mohammad enjoys travelling, cooking, reading, technology, and music.

Pencilla Lang
Pencilla Lang is from London, Ontario. She completed a BEng in mechanical engineering before enrolling in the MD/PhD program at Western. Her research interests include medical image-guidance and navigation, image processing, and medical devices. She also enjoys hiking, biking, singing and solving puzzles.

Sangjune Laurence Lee
Laurence was born in Vancouver and grew up in various cities across Canada and in Korea. He did his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo, masters in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and medical school at the University of Toronto. His interests include medical imaging, engineering solutions in medicine, and global health.

Sylvia Ng
Sylvia is from Vancouver and graduated from the University of British Columbia Medicine Program. She has a PhD from the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. Her research expertise is in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. She was the recipient of operating grants from the CIHR and CCSRI while working at the British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre prior to medical school. Sylvia was inspired to become a clinician scientist by her mentors and colleagues. She enjoys hiking in the mountains, skiing, travelling, photography, and good food.

New Physics Trainees

Derek Liu
Derek was born in Hong Kong and was rained in Vancouver. He received his BSc in physics from the University of British Columbia, with emphasis on biological applications. After that, he completed his MSc in medical physics from McGill University and PhD from the University of Alberta. His primary research interest is in prostate brachytherapy. Other previous research includes electronic brachytherapy, Monte Carlo simulations, and deformable image registration. He enjoys rowing and reading up on world history and international relations.

Dominique Fortin
Originally from Quebec, Dominique has been living in BC most of his adult life. He obtained a B.Sc. from McGill University and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in subatomic physics from the University of Victoria. For many years, he searched for new and exotic particles at CERN (Switzerland) as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in Riverside, research associate at TRIUMF (UBC) in Vancouver, and visiting scholar at nuclear physics laboratories in Lyon and Saclay (France). He joined the BC Cancer Agency in January 2013 and tackled problems such as the usage of deformable registration of PET/CT images in planning radiotherapy treatments, investigated how to best deliver stereotactic ablative radiotherapy treatment to prostate cancer patients, and completed a certificate in medical physics a few months prior to joining UT DRO. His research studies at Princess Margaret now focus on the potential gains of treating pediatric CNS patients with intensity modulated proton therapy. When away from the hospital, Dominique enjoys paddling in his kayak, hiking up or skiing down a mountain.

New Fellows at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Odette Cancer Centre

Moein Alizadeh
Moein was born in Iran and raised in Montreal. He completed his medical degree at the Université Laval and his residency at the Université de Montréal. His primary interests are in technologies and how they can improve patient care. He is a huge hockey fan and will root for his hometown Habs loudly, although he would love to see the Leafs do well.

Ibrahim Atean
Dr. Ibrahim Atean is originally from Saudi Arabia. He finished his undergraduate study and received his medical degree from King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He went on to do his residency in Radiation Oncology at Tours University Hospital, France. He then did a fellowship in Neuro-Oncology and radiosurgery at Montreal University Hospital (CHUM), Canada. He is started his second fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology at Princess Margaret Hospital.

Aisling Barry
Born in Galway, Ireland, Aisling graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005. In 2008, she completed the Memberships of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (MRCPI). She began her oncology career with a year in general Medical Oncology before starting the Radiation Oncology training programme in Dublin. She completed her Final Fellowship exams (FFR RCSI) in May 2013.

Patricia Daly
Trish is from Ireland, and graduated from medical school in 2003. She completed radiation oncology training in Ireland (FFRRCSI) and subsequently completed a one year fellowship in Lung and Paediatrics in the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia. She is returning to work now after a 4 month break where she travelled through New Zealand and South America on her way home from Melbourne. This year she is pleased to be the Paediatric/CNS fellow in Princess Margaret.

Rahul Krishnatry
Rahul completed his medical school from Government Medical College, Trivandrum at University of Kerala in 2005. He received his MD in Radiation Oncology from Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh in 2010 following which he did three years of post MD residency (till 2013) at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Last year, he worked as a Society of NeuroOncology sponsored Clinical Research Fellow in Pediatric NeuroOncology at Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto. This July, he joined Princess Margaret as a fellow to pursue his interest in neuro-oncology.

Kavita Morarji
Kavita completed her undergraduate medical training at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. She worked in the United Kingdom for two years and trained in Radiation Oncology at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney Australia. She then worked as a Radiation Oncologist at Liverpool Hospital and then with Premion Cancer Care. During her fellowship, she will work in sub-sites of lymphoma, prostate and GI.

Satiavani Ramasamy
Satiavani was born and grew up in Mauritius. She did a bachelor degree in Medical Sciences at the University of Mauritius before joining the University of Newcastle (UK). She completed her specialty training in Clinical Oncology at the St. James Institute of Oncology, Leeds, in April 2014.

Shrinivas Rathod
Shrinivas completed his Medical graduation from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, India in 2007. He finished his post-graduation studies in Radiation Oncology from Tata Memorial Centre, India in 2011. After finishing his post-graduation studies, he worked in the same institution for 2 years. He has joined Clinical Fellowship in Head and Neck cancers at the Princess Margaret Hospital in July 2014.

Julia Skliarenko
Julia's history with UT DRO dates back to 2001 when she began as a summer student with Dr. Milosevic and Dr. Hill. Over the following 4 years she continued to participate in research projects and to shadow Dr. Milosevic in his clinics. Having completed her HBSc at University of Toronto in 2005, she graduated from University of Ottawa Medical School in 2009. She defended her PhD in health economics from University of Kharkiv, Ukraine in 2011 and completed radiation oncology residency training at UT DRO in June 2014.

Claudio V. Sole
Claudio was born in Chile. He received his medical degree from Pontificie Universidad Catolica de Chile in 2008. In 2012, he completed his Radiation Oncology residency program in Instituto de Radiomedicina, school of medicine Universidad Diego Portales. Between 2012 and 2014, he completed two Radiation Oncology Fellowships at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon (Madrid, Spain) and Institut Gustave Roussy (Villejuif, France) and then joined Princess Margaret for a fellowship.