Course Directors

Dr. Akshat Gotra

MD, MSc, FRCPC - Co-course Director

Dr. Akshat Gotra is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa and an interventional radiologist in the Department of Medical Imaging at The Ottawa Hospital. He is the interventional radiology residency program director at the University of Ottawa. His clinical and academic interests include dialysis interventions, advanced embolization procedures, peripheral vascular disease and endovascular aneurysm repair.

Dr. Gotra is a member of the Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology (CAIR) and the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR).

Specialty: Interventional Radiology

Clinical Interests: Dialysis interventions, advanced embolization procedures, peripheral vascular disease, endovascular aneurysm repair.

Residency: McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Fellowship: University Health Network (UHN), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Dr. Mary Beth Bissell

MSc, MD, FRCPC - Co-course Director

Dr. Mary Beth Bissell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Ottawa. Her area of expertise is in Breast Imaging and Intervention. She completed her Diagnostic Imaging Residency training at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2019 followed by a Clinical Breast Imaging Fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2020. Dr. Bissell has a broad area of research interests including breast cancer screening and breast MRI interventional outcomes as well as emergency radiology. She is passionate about medical education having published articles about the use of online emergency radiology curriculum for residency training programs.

Her publication list can be accessed here.

Specialty: Breast Imaging

Clinical Interests: Breast cancer screening, breast intervention, breast MRI and high-risk screening

Residency: Memorial University of Newfoundland

Fellowship: University of Toronto