Dr Kevin Martell is a Radiation Oncologist and Brachytherapy specialist at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and a Clinical Associate Professor with the Department of Oncology. He obtained a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Physics and a Medical Doctorate at the University of Alberta. He completed residency in radiation oncology within the Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He completed a brachytherapy fellowship in the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario specializing in genitourinary and gynecologic malignancies and was one of the first two radiation oncologists in Canada to receive an area of focused competence diploma from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for brachytherapy training.
His primary clinical focus is the treatment of genitourinary and gynecologic malignancies using advanced radiotherapy techniques. His research focus has been on integrating advanced imaging into brachytherapy treatments, use of artificial intelligence in optimizing brachytherapy treatments and the modelling of dosimetric and clinical outcomes from radiotherapy treatments in both genitourinary and gynecologic cancers.