The standard of care we’d expect for our own families.
Canada’s first fully integrated private theranostics facility, serving patients across Canada, the United States, and abroad since 2000.
For twenty-five years, INITIO has delivered advanced diagnostic imaging, in-house radiopharmacy, and targeted therapy under one roof — built as a partner to Canada’s public health system, and staffed by clinicians who also lead programs at its leading hospitals.
- 2000 · Opened Canada’s first PET clinic, with the first FDG license in the country.
- 2021 · Added Ga-68 PSMA and DOTATATE PET imaging for prostate and neuroendocrine cancers.
- Today · Canada’s first fully integrated private theranostics facility, now delivering Lu-177 radioligand therapy.
Our Story
An ally that extends capacity,
not one that diverts it.
Initio Medical began with a conviction that the most advanced diagnostic and therapeutic medicine shouldn’t be a privilege of geography. In 2000, we opened Canada’s first PET clinic, introducing positron emission tomography to Canadian patients. Twenty-five years later, we are Canada’s first fully integrated private theranostics facility — combining diagnostic imaging, in-house radiopharmacy, and targeted therapy under one roof, for patients from across Canada and around the world.
The Canadian public healthcare system is one of the things we are most proud of as a country. It is also a system under unprecedented strain — capacity demands, workforce pressures, and a slower-than-needed pace of technological adoption. Rather than see these challenges as insurmountable, we built Initio to be a partner. An ally that extends capacity, not a competitor that diverts it.
That’s not a marketing sentence. It shows up in how we staff: the majority of our clinicians also hold senior roles at Canada’s leading public hospitals — Lions Gate, Royal Columbian, BC Cancer, UHN, Sunnybrook. The same standard of care, in a setting built to expand it.
Mission
To deliver integrated, advanced multi-modality diagnostics and targeted therapies — working in genuine partnership with the public health system to expand clinical capacity, and providing unwavering, compassionate support to every patient we serve.
Vision
A Canadian healthcare landscape where the public and private sectors work seamlessly together to ensure advanced diagnostics and therapeutic medicine are accessible to everyone who needs them.
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