Thunder Bay’s cancer care team is growing.

Dr. Kevin Ramchandar, originally from Kenora, will join the Regional Cancer Care team as a Radiation Oncologist in July 2009 upon the completion of his post-graduate medical training in Hamilton. Dr. Dolores Sicheri, a graduate of Columbia University and New York University Medical School, joined the team as a medical oncologist and hematologist. Dr. Oleg Rubel, PhD, joined the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute as a scientist within the Advanced Detection Devices research theme. Originally from the Ukraine, Dr. Rubel worked with Philipps-University Marburg in Germany.

All three recruits were impressed with the level of commitment to excellence in patient and progressive cancer care and the research initiatives offered in Thunder Bay.

“As our oncology and research teams grow, cancer patients in northwestern Ontario benefit. They will continue to experience some of the best cancer care in Canada and will soon have access to clinical trials in molecular imaging, which will change the way we diagnose and treat cancer and other diseases,” said Michael Power, the Research Institute’s CEO and TBRHSC’s vice president of Cancer Services and Diagnostics.