February 6, 2012

To: Members of the Department of Medical Imaging

From: Catharine Whiteside, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Vice Provost, Relations with Health Care Institutions

Re: Appointment of Dr. Alan Moody as Chair, Department of Medical Imaging

I am delighted to announce that the Academic Board has approved the appointment of Professor Alan Moody as Chair of the Department of Medical Imaging, for a five year term commencing July 1, 2012.

Dr. Moody has been a faculty member at the University of Toronto, and Radiologist in Chief at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, since 2003. He is currently an associate scientist within the Imaging Research Discipline of the Sunnybrook Research Institute as part of the Schulich Heart Research program. His research interests broadly include imaging and vascular biology and specifically the application of imaging in the understanding and management of atherosclerosis.

He is currently one of the principal investigators within the Canadian Atherosclerosis Imaging Network and co-director of the research imaging program using MRI to investigate nutrition and disease based at St Michael's Hospital. Following medical and radiology training in Oxford and London, and an imaging Fellowship in Toronto, Professor Moody was appointed as Senior Lecturer at Leicester University followed by a similar post at Nottingham University. He was then appointed as Chair of Academic Radiology in 1998 and Clinical Director of the Radiology department at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, where he served until joining the University of Toronto in 2003.

May I extend sincere thanks to Patrice Bret for his leadership of, and commitment to, the Department Medical Imaging since 2006.

Please join me in warmly welcoming Alan Moody to his new role in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.