Michael Patlas
Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Imaging, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Michael Patlas obtained an MD at Hebrew University of Jerusalem before completing his residency in radiology at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. He completed a fellowship in abdominal imaging at the University Health Network, Toronto, followed by fellowships in cross-sectional imaging focusing on trauma at McMaster University and cardiovascular magnetic resonance at the University of Calgary.
An emergency and abdominal radiologist, Dr. Patlas is internationally recognized for his research. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the European Society of Emergency Radiology and has received honorary fellowships from the American Society of Emergency Radiology, Canadian Association of Radiologists and Society of Abdominal Radiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and is the Emergency Radiology Continuous Medical Education Program Director for the Association of Radiologists of Ukraine. Dr. Patlas serves Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal, and co-founded and is President of the new Canadian Emergency, Trauma & Acute Care Radiology Society.
A committed educator and mentor, Dr. Patlas developed numerous radiology fellowships while serving as McMaster’s Medical Imaging Fellowship Director. Dr. Patlas has supervised more than 40 trainee research projects resulting in 60 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.
- CARJ Editor's Award 2023
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- Gender Differences in Academic Rank, Leadership, and Awards Among NIH Grant Recipients in Diagnostic Radiology
Rationale and Objectives: Females have been traditionally underrepresented in academia across multiple medical specialties, including radiology. The […]
- Editor's Corner: February 2024
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- Plugging the Leak: Addressing the Mid-career Pipeline Challenge in Radiology
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- Medico-Legal Cases in Breast Imaging in Canada: A Trend Analysis
Purpose: Breast imaging accounts for a large proportion of medico-legal cases involving radiologists in several countries and may be a disincentive […]
- The Role of Twitter in Radiology Medical Education and Research: A Review of Current Practices and Drawbacks
The trends in society have provided favourable conditions for the rapid growth of radiology on social media, specifically there has been an expanding […]
- Characterizing the Variety of Call Structures Across Canadian Diagnostic Radiology Postgraduate Medical Education Programs
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- Community-Based Breast Cancer Screening: A Grassroots Approach to Address Racial Disparities in Detection and Diagnosis
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- Abdominal Emergencies in Cancer Patients
Abdominal emergencies in cancer patients encompass a wide spectrum of oncologic conditions caused directly by malignancies, paraneoplastic syndromes, […]
- Editor's Corner: November 2023
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- Adverse Events Self-Reporting in Radiology:A New Avenue for Excellence
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- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Radiology: Prioritizing Trainee Involvement
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- Intra-Specialty Citation Pattern in Radiology and Gastroenterology/Hepatology Journals: A Cross-Specialty Comparison
Objectives: To investigate intra-specialty citation patterns of radiology articles, compared with another medical specialty: […]
- Competency-Based Medical Education in Radiology - Planning for the Immediate and Long-Term Future of Radiology Education
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- The growing role of social media for research and education in radiology
While the adoption of social media platforms has become commonplace for personal life use, its practice has tremendously grown for professional usage […]