Dr. Bill Thomlinson
Canadian Light Source Inc.
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon , Saskatchewan

Dr. Thomlinson received his doctorate from Yale University in 1970. He has held positions as a research associate at Cornell University, a physicist in Germany, and a research scientist in low temperature and solid-state physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory on Long Island, New York.

Dr. Thomlinson was a member of the scientific staff and management group at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Upton, New York, from 1979 – 1998, ultimately serving as Associate Chair for Environment, Safety and Health. In 1981, Bill joined the Stanford University/Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) angiography project as a collaborator, and participated in the first coronary angiography experiments at SSRL in 1986.

At the NSLS, he also created and led the successful Synchrotron Medical Research Facility, a multi-discipline facility devoted to medical research. In 1996, Thomlinson and three other scientists invented and patented a diffraction enhanced imaging technique for applications to mammography and other medical imaging problems. There are now similar programs at Brookhaven and major European synchrotrons

Dr. Thomlinson also served as Head of the Medical Research Group at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. He has published more than 130 papers, holds 4 patents, and has made many contributions to the worldwide synchrotron community. At the ESRF he coordinated a highly successful medical beamline group, helped start lung and mammography imaging, and in 2000, led the first human angiography (blood vessel imaging) studies at the facility.

Bill currently serves as the Executive Director of the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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