Katherine A. Zukotynski MD, PhD, FRCPC

Katherine Zukotynski is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Radiology at McMaster University. After completing an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, Dr. Zukotynski completed medical training followed by a residency in radiology, also at the University of Toronto. She completed nuclear medicine training through the Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine at Harvard in 2009. She was a staff radiologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital from 2009 through 2012 and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, she was a staff radiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre from 2012 through 2015 and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is board certified in nuclear cardiology as well as in nuclear medicine and radiology in both the United States and Canada.

Dr. Zukotynski is involved in medical imaging research. Her main areas of research are in PET/CT, particularly as it relates to oncology, neurodegenerative disease, and machine learning. She received the RSNA Research and Education Foundation Roentgen Resident/ Fellow Research Award first as a radiology resident and then as a nuclear medicine resident. She held an RSNA Research Scholar Grant from 2012-2014 and currently holds approximately $5M in grant funding for molecular imaging, predominantly in prostate cancer research.