Speaker: Dr. Ronit Agid

Dr. Agid is a Neuroradiologist at JDMI, UHN located at the Toronto Western Hospital, currently the section head of Interventional Neuroradiology. She is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto. In 1995 she graduated from the Hadassah Hebrew University medical school in Jerusalem, Israel. She completed her residency in radiology at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Her fellowship training in diagnostic and interventional Neuroradiology was at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2001-2004 under the tutelage of Dr. Karel terBrugge.

Dr. Agid has published 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented her work in over 70 scientific meetings. In addition, she has been an invited speaker and a visiting professor in over 60 national and international conferences. She has organized 3 scientific meetings in Tel Aviv focusing on Neuro-Interventional treatments and served as a faculty and session moderator in 30 other scientific meetings. She serves as a reviewer for 24 peer reviewed medical journals and is on the editorial board of 3. Dr. Agid’s research focus is on the natural history, imaging and management of cerebrovascular diseases.

Currently Dr. Agid serves as the section head of Interventional Neuroradiology in the Joint Department of Medical Imaging at UHN. She is the site supervisor of the U of T Diagnostic Neuroradiology fellowship program. Dr. Agid is a member of the Executive and Endowment Committees of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuororadiology (WFITN) and Chair of the Educational and Women’s Committees of this organization. She created and is managing the Grant for “Interventional Neuroradiology Low and Lower-Middle Income Country Observership Program” for the WFITN. Dr. Agid serves as a member of the AFC (area of focused competence) Working Group in Neuro-intervention of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.