Dr. Aaron Ward, PhD is an associate professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Oncology within the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University.  He is a Scientist at the London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute.  His research interests focus on the development of sophisticated image registration and segmentation techniques based on high resolution histopathology samples to further improve image-guided diagnostic procedures and therapy for cancer patients.  His other area of focus is to expand upon existing methodology to quantitatively evaluate computational methods used for medical image-based analyses.