Dr. Richard Frayne is a tenured Professor at the University of Calgary. He is an imaging scientist whose research bridges natural science and engineering to clinical applications of neurovascular diseases. The TRICKS technology that he co-developed is licensed by MR equipment vendors. Dr. Frayne chairs the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada's National Scientific Review Committee, which sets science funding policy in cardio/cerebrovascular research, and links the scientific community and the foundation's Board. Locally, Dr. Frayne was the Scientific Director of the Seaman Family MR Centre, and the current Deputy Director of the internationally acclaimed Hotchkiss Brain Institute.