Sandor Demeter, BSc, MD, MHSc, MHP, FRCPC (Nuclear Medicine, Public Health), ABPM, FACPM, ABNM

Research summary

Dr. Demeter’s main research interests include the public health aspects of ionizing radiation, health technology assessment and health policy.

Research affiliations

Former Commission Member

• Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Former Committee Member

• International Commission on Radiological Protection (Protection in Medicine Committee)

Member

• Canadian Drug Agency (formerly The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health) -  Health Technology Expert Review Panel

Research themes

• public health aspects of ionizing radiation
• health technology assessment
• health economics
• health policy

Dr. Sandor Demeter is an associate professor in community health sciences at the University of Manitoba.

Dr. Sandor’s career includes a decade in public health and two decades in clinical nuclear medicine.

He has held several senior medical and academic administrative positions and is currently a staff nuclear medicine physician with Shared Health.

He is a former commission member of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), a former committee member with the ICRP‒International Commission on Radiological Protection (Protection in Medicine Committee) and a member of CADTH’s Health Technology Expert Review Panel.

Cross-appointments

• Department of Radiology, Max Rady College of Medicine

Education

• Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism, University of Toronto (2023)
• Master of Health Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology (2016)
• Master of Science, University of Alberta (2004)
• Master of Health Science, University of Toronto (1993)
• Doctor of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan (1989)
• Bachelor of Science, University of Saskatchewan (1986)

Clinical postgraduate training

• Family Medicine, University of Calgary - Foothills Hospital (1989 – 1990)
• Anatomic Pathology, University of Calgary - Foothills Hospital (1990 – 1991)
• Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Canada in Community Medicine/Public Health, University of Toronto (July 1994)
• Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Canada in Nuclear Medicine, University of Alberta (July 2002)
• American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) (2002)
• Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine (2000)
• Diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Examiners (1996)
• Diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Medicine (1996)
• American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) (1995)