Robert Willinsky

Dr. Robert Willinsky is a staff neuroradiologist at JDMI.

He is Professor of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. Dr. Willinsky studied medicine at the University of Western Ontario. After a rotating internship, he was engaged in a family practice in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Dr. Willinsky did his residency in radiology at the University of Toronto followed by a fellowship in interventional neuroradiology in Paris, France under the tutelage of Professor Pierre Lasjaunias. He had a staff position in medical imaging at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto and moved to the Toronto Western Hospital in 1989 to work with Dr. Karel terBrugge.

He has served as the Chief of the Oral Examination Board (English component) in Medical Imaging for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He has been program director of the University of Toronto Neuroradiology Fellowship program.

Dr. Willinsky’s academic career has focused on cerebrovascular diseases. He has more than 170 peer-reviewed publications and has been an invited speaker at more than 130 national/ international meetings. He has a passion for skiing in the Canadian Rockies and is an avid road cyclist.