[BIC-announce] Sad news: The passing away of a dear friend to many of the BIC's family

[Sylvain MILOT]

Dear colleagues,

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Sean Marrett on December 12 in Boston. Sean was one of the first student members of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC), and the person
responsible for influencing much of our computational approach to brain imaging data analysis. He was one of the first people to work on co-registration of brain MRI and PET scans, and on measurements of
cerebral blood flow with PET. Sean was born and raised in Montreal and studied electrical engineering at McGill University. He was recruited to the BIC by Alan Evans as a system manager but quickly
demonstrated a broad knowledge and passion for the scientific side of BIC life. He decided to go down the academic path and undertook a PhD with Albert Gjedde. He went on to work in Aarhus, the Massachusetts
General Hospital and later to NIH, where he was a pillar of the MRI program for many years. Sean leaves behind his wife Tori and sons Elijah and Keiran. We will remember him for his great knowledge of
neuroimaging and computer science, joy in helping others, dancing every Friday night at Thompson House, and his electric smile, which never left him even as he battled illness in the past year. He is
remembered as one the founding forces of the BIC in its formative years. We will miss his wonderful, eclectic presence at HBM meetings, in Montreal, Boston and in Washington.

 

Alan, Alain, Louis, Bruce, Julien.

 

 

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Julien Doyon, Ph.D., FRSC, FCAHS 

Directeur, Centre d’imagerie cérébrale McConnell

Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Center

Professeur, Département de neurologie et neurochirurgie

Professor, Department of Neurology and neurosurgery

McGill University

 

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