James Robar Editor

Dr. James Robar is a globally-recognized medical physicist, the Chief of Medical Physics at Nova Scotia Health Authority, a professor of radiation oncology at Dalhousie University and a specialist in the high technology of radiotherapy—a treatment technique used for roughly half of all patients with cancer. He is also co-founder and CSO at Adaptiiv Medical Technologies, a medical-tech firm in Halifax, with the mission of improving the accuracy of cancer treatment. As a scientist, serial inventor and entrepreneur, Dr. Robar has pioneered multiple advancements improving imaging and treatment delivery for radiotherapy. These technologies include enhanced imaging to improve the accuracy of targeting tumours with radiation, hardware and software detecting sub-millimetre motion of patients to improve the precision of treatment, planning algorithms to provide improved sparing of healthy tissues and organs, and turnkey solutions allowing intelligent design of 3D printed, patient-specific accessories used during radiotherapy. For his contributions in this field, he became a Canadian Governor General’s Innovation Laureate in 2021.