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Professor Gavin Winston

 

Professor, Department of Medicine, Centre for Neuroscience Studies and School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada

 

Biography

Dr. Gavin Winston is a Professor in the Department of Medicine with cross-appointment to the School of Computing at Queen’s University and a faculty member of the Centre for Neuroscience Studies.

 

Dr. Winston undertook his medical education at the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford and his subsequent neurology training was at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), Queen Square and the Royal Free Hospital, London. He received his PhD in Neuroimaging of Epilepsy from University College London supported by an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship.

 

Dr. Winston’s research develops and applies computational neuroimaging approaches to assist people with refractory focal epilepsy undergoing neurosurgical treatment, and to better understand the cognitive comorbidities and outcomes from surgery. His research group has improved the detection of brain abnormalities causing seizures using novel quantitative contrasts and machine learning techniques. He contributes to two international multicentre neuroimaging studies, MELD (Multi-Centre Epilepsy Lesion Detection) and ENIGMA Epilepsy.

 

His current work includes exploring cognitive impairment present in people with epilepsy using robotics and neuroimaging and predicting risk of seizure recurrence after a first seizure using multimodal biomarker-based models incorporating MRI, EEG and cognition. He is a supervisor in the Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Translational Medicine Graduate Program and School of Computing at Queen’s University and has supervised over 20 graduate students and was elected an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018 for research and teaching.

 

Dr. Winston received the Sir Peter Mansfield Prize for innovative technical developments in the field of magnetic resonance in medicine and biology from the British Chapter of the ISMRM in 2011 and his work has featured in the BBC television programme "How Science Changed Our World" describing the top ten scientific breakthroughs in the past 50 years. He was awarded an American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award and ILAE Europe Leadership Development Scholarship in 2018.

 

He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, undertaken peer review for around 60 international journals and grant awarding bodies and served on the editorial board of Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery since its inception. He was a member of UCL Academic Board (2010-2016) and is currently a member of the MR Committee of the Centre for Neuroscience Studies, the Neuroimaging Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy and the Senate Committee on Academic Development and Procedures at Queen’s University. He is Research Lead for the Neurology Residency Program.

 

  • 14:15 – 15:05 Keynote Speech - Machine Learning in Neuroimaging across Disciplines (Synopsis)
  • 16:15 – 17:00 Panel Discussion