The Joint Department of Medical Imaging's Musculoskeletal Division consists of faculty from Mount Sinai Hospital, the University Health Network (comprising Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Toronto Western Hospital) and Women's College Hospital.
The Joint Department of Medical Imaging (JDMI) is the largest sub-specialty medical imaging department in Canada. The Department’s highly trained staff are instrumental in the diagnosis, assessment, planning and treatment delivery for patients at the University Health Network’s Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto Rehab, as well as Mount Sinai and Women’s College Hospitals. The department comprises over 600 employees including 75 staff Radiologists. JDMI performs greater than 650,000 exams per year on cutting edge technology including 11 MRI scanners (12% of exams in Ontario) and 20 CT scanners (8% of exams in Ontario). 80,000 of these examinations are MSK studies, which includes around 14,000 MRI examinations.
The musculoskeletal imaging division covers the full spectrum of musculoskeletal disease processes. These include sports medicine, trauma, oncology, pediatric, arthritic and specialist orthopedic and rheumatologic referrals. A wide range of CT, fluoroscopic and ultrasound guided interventional techniques are performed, including biopsies, aspirations, arthrograms, facet joint and nerve root injections.
Princess Margaret and Mount Sinai hospitals are the principal musculoskeletal oncology referral centres in Canada. The sarcoma program at Mount Sinai Hospital is the largest multi-disciplinary program of its type in Canada. Meanwhile, Toronto Western Hospital has a special interest in hand, foot and ankle surgery. The Centre of Excellence in Skeletal Health Assessment (CESHA) is the only one of its kind, nationally as well as internationally, bringing together radiologists and physicians caring for patients with osteoporosis, provide diagnostic tests for osteoporosis, including bone density tests and other tests of bone strength and body composition.
The Joint Department of Medical Imaging is a proud partner of the University of Toronto’s Advanced Imaging and Education Centre (AIEC). The AIEC is dedicated to providing the highest standard of quality education to students who participate in advanced imaging workshops that incorporate computed tomography courses in cardiac, neurological, abdominal and vascular imaging.
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