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Guest speaker: Dr. Mini Pakkal

Assistant Professor at University of Toronto

About me

Dr. Mini Pakkal is Assistant Professor in Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto since 2014. Prior to that she worked as a consultant cardiothoracic radiologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust, UK from 2007-2013.

She is level 3 SCCT certified in cardiac CT and level 3 SCMR certified in cardiac MR. She was awarded the FSCCT in 2017. She is actively involved in education and is passionate about sharing cardiothoracic knowledge with the international community. She sits on the SCCT committee for continued medical education. Her educational portfolio is strongly reflective of her commitment towards cardiac imaging. She is the Director of cardiac education at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging and Director of the Advanced cardiac CT course at the Advanced Education and Imaging centre at the University of Toronto and co-director of the UK cardiac CT course. She also supervises the medical imaging fellowship program at the University of Toronto in her role as the Fellowship Program Director. She has received several awards for her teaching skills and has been recently awarded the 2019 RSNA international visiting professorship in cardiothoracic education.