Stephen Strother

Background

About Stephen Strother

Dr. Strother studied Physics and Mathematics at Auckland University, New Zealand, and received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal in 1986, where he developed early Positron Emission Tomography (PET) techniques at the Montreal Neurological Institute. After a fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, in 1989 he joined the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis as senior PET Physicist, and Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Minnesota where he became Professor of Radiology in 2002. In 2004 he moved to Toronto as a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute (RRI), Baycrest, and Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. His research interests include neuroinformatics with a focus on optimization of PET, fMRI/MRI and EEG neuroimaging pipelines using statistical and machine learning techniques for research and clinical applications applied to the brain disease. He initiated and has led the neuroinformatics developments within RRI, since 2007, and currently leads the team building the neuroimaging framework of the BrainCODE data repository for the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI). He is a Co-PI of the neuroimaging platform or CAN-BIND and the PI of the neuroinformatics for ONDRI, multi-institutional research programs funded by OBI. He is also a cofounder of Predictek, Inc, and ADMdx in Chicago, medical analysis and diagnostics companies, and a past member of the Neuro-technology Review Committee and past chairman of an international Neuroinformatics Standards Committee at the National Institutes of Health, USA. He is an Associate Editor for Human Brain Mapping and Frontiers in Neuroscience: Brain Imaging Methods, and one of the Canadian representatives on the Council for Training, Science and Infrastructure of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility.