Dr. Jessica Murphy-Lavallee is a graduate of McGill University in Medicine (1998) and a graduate of L’Université de Montréal in Diagnostic Radiology (2004).  After completing a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at the University of Toronto, she joined the team of radiologists at Varad Radiology Clinic and works at the different hospital centres of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montreal.  She is presently an Assistant Clinical Professor for the Department of Radiology at L’Université de Montréal. She specializes in abdominal imaging and sub-specialty is contrast ultrasonography.  Her scientific research projects are centered on the development of contrast ultrasonography and the teaching of this method in both Quebec and in Canada.