Alexander (Sandy) J.B. McEwan, MBBS, FRCPC

Dr. McEwan is currently Chair of the Department of Oncology within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. He is also Medical Director of the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton.

Dr. McEwan has been a member of the faculty at the University of Alberta 1986. He has been instrumental in the development of the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Programme at the Cross Cancer Institute and has a clinical interest in the role of the image as a biomarker in the management of patients with cancer. With over 100 publications, Dr. McEwan's major clinical interest is in the field of endocrine tumors and he has developed the largest radioisotope therapy programme in Canada. In 2010, he introduced Lutetium – 177 therapy at the Cross Cancer Institute. He is frequently asked to speak internationally about Radioisotope Therapy.

He has been special advisor on Medical Isotopes for the Federal Minister of Health and is a member of the Canadian Association of Radiopharmaceutical Scientists, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. McEwan is also a past president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.

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