Biography:

 

Dr. Calum MacAulay obtained a BSc in Engineering-Physics, a MSc Physics from Dalhousie University and his PhD in Physics from University of British Columbia. He is currently a Distinguished Scientist and is the head of the Department of Integrative Oncology at the BC Cancer Research Institute as well as an Associate Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Associated Member of the Physics and Astronomy departments at UBC. His research has concentrated on the early detection and treatment of cancer using quantitative imaging tools in microscopy, photon – tissue interactions and understanding the genetic and molecular events driving the neoplastic process. The teams he has worked with have had a strong drive to translate their work into clinical tools and processes. Their work has led to the clinical introduction of clinical tools using tissue autofluorescence for the detection and assessment of lung and oral cancers as well as automated image cytometry systems for cervical screening and oral cancer screening.

Currently his research is focused on using machine learning applied to Lung Cancer CT screening, the in vivo optical biopsy of early cervical, fallopian, lung and oral cancers using multimodal optical probes and more relevant to this presentation digital pathology tools and recent advances in machine learning coupled with spatial biology to evaluate the biological aggressiveness of neoplastic tissue.