Dr Jean-Luc Urbain,
Chief of Nuclear Medicine at the
London Health Sciences Centre and University of Western Ontario

Dr. Urbain is Professor and Chair of Medical Imaging at the University of Western Ontario. He is the City-Wide Chief of Nuclear Medicine in London., Ontario. He is also the president of the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine. He has been the co-chair of the Wait Time Alliance since 2007.

Dr. Urbain has been an active member of the Nuclear Medicine community for more than 20 years. Originally a native from Belgium, he earned his Medical Degree at the Catholic University of Louvain, the oldest Medical School in Europe. He then pursued training in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine and is board certified in Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. He then actively engaged in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Biology Research at Temple University in Philadelphia where is got his Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Dr. Urbain has been full Professor of Diagnostic Imaging for more than a decade and has held leadership positions in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Cleveland Clinic and now at the University of Western Ontario.

As a teacher and leader in Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, he has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers, 20 book chapters and more than 100 abstracts in Nuclear Cardiology, Gastrointestinal Scintigraphy, Nuclear Oncology and Molecular Imaging. Dr. Urbain has been involved with PET Imaging since 1984 and with hybrid imaging since its inception.

His department is now running a microSPECT/CT, 5 SPECT/CT systems, and a 64 slice CT scanner. Hybrid and Molecular imaging are the major focuses of his department.