Imaging Suite

Jean-Paul’s role is to help supervise, coordinate and operate the Bio-Imaging Platform, which offers state of the art capacities for MRI, PET and SPECT scanning, ultrasound imaging and bone/soft tissues density measurements.

Jean-Paul trained as a physician at Université de Montréal (1975-1980), where he also completed his residency in Nuclear Medicine, leading to a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in that specialty, as well as to a License from the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. This was followed by a fellowship at Centre hospitalier Frédéric-Joliot, Orsay, France, a research facility of the French Atomic Energy Commission, where he worked on projects studying acute stroke and Alzheimer’s disease with tomographic techniques for measuring cerebral blood flow in vivo in humans. Jean-Paul then came back to Montreal as a staff member in Nuclear Medicine at Hôpital Notre-Dame, which became part of the Centre hospitalier de l’université de Montréal, where he was Chief of the Department of Nuclear Medicine from 1997 till 2000, and where he is still practicing as Professor (Clinical) in the Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal. In the meantime (1992-1994), he completed a Master’s degree in Neuroscience at Université de Montréal, working on monoamine transporters with a goal of developing imaging techniques to quantify those systems with PET imaging.

In 2001, Jean-Paul joined the team of the McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, as Medical Director of the PET Unit, a position still occupied to this day; he is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.

Jean-Paul became Associate Director, Bio-Imaging, at PERFORM Centre, in 2014, and splits his time between the clinical world at CHUM (where he mostly does neuro-imaging with PET and SPECT) and research activities at Concordia and McGill, where he is involved mostly in projects on neurodegenerative conditions, sleep disorders and epilepsy, supported by funding from a range of agencies (CIHR, CQDM, Weston Foundation, Parkinson’s Disease Foundation of Canada, …).

Tel: 514-848-2424 ext 4499 

Email: jean-paul.soucy@concordia.ca

Stephane’s primary role is to maintain the daily operations of Nuclear Medicine services. This includes the technical operation and quality assurance of equipment. He also ensures participant safety as well as the safe use of radiation and radiation emitting devices. He has the responsibility for the implementing Concordia’s radiation protection program and reporting to the University Radiation Safety Committee as well as the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

Stephane has been with PERFORM since 2014. Prior to that he worked in a private medical imaging practice where he successfully developed the quality assurance program and obtained accreditation with mention for the imaging department, reported to the CNSC and was responsible for the nuclear medicine services.   

Stephane holds a Bachelors of Health Science Degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Diploma of Nuclear Medicine Technology from the New Brunswick Community College. He is a certified member of the CAMRT and OTIMROEPMQ. 

Tel: 514-848-2424 ext 4151

Email: stephane.frenette@concordia.ca

Antonys is responsible for the day to day operation and management of the MRI and Ultrasound equipment. This includes the technical operation and quality assurance of the equipment. He conducts research activities and helps support researchers based on their specific needs assuring smooth transition from protocol development to the end of the project. He ensures the safety of participants, compliance with external regulatory requirements as well as Concordia’s Health and Safety policies.

Prior to working at the PERFORM Centre, Antonys spent years working as a MRI and General Radiography Technologist at various healthcare facilities. His main responsibilities were for performing diagnostic imaging exams using different radiology modalities.  He has excellent organizational abilities, high level of personal initiative, innovation and flexibility and has been a member of the team at the Bio-Imaging suite since July 2016.

Antonys holds a diplomas in Radiography from the Technical Health Institute, Cairo, Egypt and another diploma in Applied Science focusing on radiologic science, Northampton community college, PA, USA. Antonys is a certified member of CAMRT and OTIMROEPMQ.

Tel: 514-848-2424 ext 4429

Email: antonys.melek@concordia.ca

Stephan's role as a research associate at PERFORM consists of developing appropriate acquisition and image analysis protocols to ensure the validity of research projects from an imaging quantification perspective, validating the quarterly setup, calibration for the GE Discovery 690 whole-body PET/CT tomograph to ensure high reliability of quantitative data produced during PET imaging protocols as well as  improving research facility-level QC protocols to facilitate the identification and troubleshooting of potential problems which can occur during the PET data acquisition and reconstruction process.

Stephan completed his Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics at Université de Bordeaux I (France) on the modeling of the molecular line emission in forming stars and later shifted his interest towards biomedical imaging research. Moving to Canada, he joined as a post-doctoral fellow at the Medical Imaging Research Group (MIRG, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC) led by Dr. Anna Celler in 1999. He mostly focused his research on 3D and 4D image reconstruction techniques applied to the Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) modality and on image correction techniques such as attenuation correction and resolution modeling. In 2004 he joined as a research associate the UBC PET Group (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC) led by Dr. Vesna Sossi, then shifting his focus to the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) modality. He was responsible for the integrity of the data acquired on 3 PET scanners and on a small animal SPECT/PET/CT camera, from their acquisition to their reconstruction and archiving. He was also involved in various research projects focusing on the development and implementation of image reconstruction and correction methods and on the development of image analysis techniques. Stephan moved to Montreal in 2017, sharing his time between the PERFORM centre and the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill.

Tel: 514-848-2424 ext 4152

Email: stephan.blinder@concordia.ca

Stephan’s role is to assist researchers who intend to run MR studies (sequence choice and parameter optimization) at PERFORM, develop appropriate acquisition and pulse sequence protocols and to ensure that their studies will be valid from an imaging perspective. He also develop and/or implement a research facility-level QC protocol ensuring high reliability of quantitative data produced during imaging protocols taking place at the Centre. Finely he also develop new research protocols that utilize PERFORM’s multiple platforms.

Stephan completed his PhD in Physics with a specialization in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging at ‘Institut National de la Santé et de la recherche Médicale’ (INSERM), Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France).

In an early post-doctoral, Stephan work at the ‘Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture” (IRSTEA), Unit TERE in Rennes, France, he implement and use a MR non-invasive temperature measurements technic.

In a later post-doctoral, Stephan work at the “Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM): Laboratoire en Neurosciences, épilepsie et cognition UMR751” in Marseille, (France), he applied MRI physics to the fields of neuroscience and neuropsychology.

In addition to his postdoctoral position, Stephan worked in the Biophysics industry (Elekta S.A.) as a Research Engineer at the ‘Hôpital de la Timone’ and also at the ‘Centre d’Etude Atomique Orsay-Paris’ in France.  Here he specialized in developing fMRI, and MRI protocols.  He also developed and implemented a protocol for using deep brain electrodes in epileptic patients.

In 2004, he obtained a Tenured position as a Research Engineer at the ‘Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’, Unit: IFR131 ‘Cognition and Brain Science’ in Marseille, France.  

In 2006, Stephan completed an intensive 6-month training in MEG at the ‘Centre MEG/EEG’ at the Hôpital Pitié Salpétrière in Paris, France.  Here he acquired key skills to work in the MEG-EEG environment from machine operation, to protocol design and implementation, to data collection and analyses.

In 2006 Stephan made the move to Canada and joined the ‘Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie Expérimentale et Cognition’ (CERNEC) in the Dept. of Psychology, University of Montreal as a Staff Physicist and Research Associate.  He played a critical role in the development of the ‘MEG Laboratory’. As a research associate at the University of Montreal, he developed new tools for the MRI and MEG environments. In addition to his work in neuroimaging, he have actively pursued research in the cognitive neurosciences, in particular, in visual short-term memory, auditory short-term memory.

More recently he worked at the Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré Coeur de Montreal.

In 2015, Stephan joined the team of PERFORM.

Tel: 514-848-2424  ext 4399

Email: stephan.grimault@concordia.ca