Rashed Dewan

Profound Medical, Inc. develops and commercializes a unique, minimally invasive treatment for prostate cancer. Its novel technology combines Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) guidance and ultrasound energy to deliver thermal ablative therapy to the prostate gland. The firm deliveres via a trans-urethral approach, the technique combines the image quality of MRI with thermal ultrasound as the treatment tool. Its method of prostate cancer treatment affords highly accurate and precise treatment within the prostate gland in a short time span in an outpatient setting. The company was founded in June 2008 by Michael Bronskill, Rajiv Chopra and Paul Chipperton and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.