Ur Metser, MD, FRCPC

• • Site Director, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
  • Division Head, Molecular Imaging

Dr. Ur Metser is the Division Head of Molecular Imaging at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging (UHN, Sinai Health and Women’s College Hospital), Site Director of Medical Imaging at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and holds the position of Professor of Radiology, Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. He also chairs the Ontario Provincial Positron Emission Tomography Steering Committee at Cancer Care Ontario, responsible for the evidence-based introduction of PET in Ontario. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion (Haifa) and completed his residency training at the Sourasky Medical Center (affiliate of Tel Aviv University) and fellowship programs in abdominal imaging at the University of Toronto, and PET imaging at McMaster University.

After serving as staff radiologist at the Departments of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in Tel-Aviv, he joined the Joint Department of Medical Imaging in the Divisions of Abdominal Imaging and Molecular Imaging. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada) and an active member in multiple international professional societies including the Radiological Society of North America, and Society of Nuclear Medicine, amongst others. Dr. Metser has published over 150 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, as well as multiple review articles, book chapters and practice guidelines. He is also a reviewer for a few of the field’s leading medical journals and is on the editorial board of Journal of Computed Axial Tomography.

His main clinical and research interests focus on novel molecular imaging probes, theranostics, hybrid imaging (PET/CT and PET/MR) for tumour detection, characterization and assessment of response to therapy with functional imaging.