RANZCR Melbourne 2011 | 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting | 6 – 9 October 2011

2011 Carestream Professor

Hedvig Hricak M.D., Ph.D., Dr.h.c.

Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre
New York USA

Hedvig Hricak is Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She holds a senior position within the Program of Molecular and Pharmacology Therapeutics at the Sloan-Kettering Institute and is Professor of Radiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She earned her MD degree from the University of Zagreb and her Dr. Med. Sc. from the Karolinska Institute. In 2005 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine (Dr.h.c.) from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Prior to joining MSKCC, she was a professor of radiology, radiation oncology, urology and gynecology at the University of California at San Francisco and was the chief of the abdominal section of the Department of Radiology at the UCSF Medical Center. She has helped develop applications in ultrasound, MR, and CT for gynecological cancers as well as MR and MR spectroscopy for prostate cancer. She continues to investigate diagnostic methods for cancer detection, staging, and management and is involved in developing clinical approaches for molecular imaging of cancer.

Dr. Hricak is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Science. She serves as a member of the Nuclear Radiation Study Board of the National Academies. She is also a “foreign” member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hricak serves on the committees or executive boards for a number of medical societies and served as President of the California Academy of Medicine (1999). She has also served as President of the Society for the Advancement of Women’s Imaging (1997-1999), President of the Society of Uroradiology (2000-2003), and President of the New York Roentgen Society (2004-2005). For the year 2010, she is President of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Dr. Hricak has authored or co-authored 339 peer-reviewed original research articles, 155 review/editorial articles, 131 book chapters and 18 books. She has given more than 135 named or keynote lectures and has been a visiting professor at more than 30 institutions worldwide. She has had multiple government sponsored grants throughout her career and is currently the PI on 3 NIH funded awards. She is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the Society of Uroradiology. In recognition of her career accomplishments, she has received the Marie Curie Award of the American Association of Women Radiologists, the gold medals of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Association of University Radiologists, the Béclère medal of the International Society of Radiology, the Morocco Medal of Merit, and the Katarina Zrinska Croatian presidential award. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and an honorary member of the British Institute of Radiology, German Radiological Society, Austrian Roentgen Society, Croatian Society of Radiology, Journées Françaises de Radiologie, the Swedish Society of Medical Radiology, the Chinese Radiological Society and Japanese Radiological Society.

Professor Donald Resnick

Professor of Radiology, Section Chief, Musculoskeletal Radiology
University of California San Diego USA

Donald Resnick, M.D., is Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego and Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Diego. He has been at both of these facilities for more than thirty years. His interests are in the area of musculoskeletal imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging. He has authored over 900 original scientific articles and has authored and co-authored sixteen books, including a multi-volume textbook dealing with bone and joint imaging.

Dr Resnick and his colleagues offer a year-long fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging, which has been training radiologists for almost thirty years.

Dr Hollis Potter

Chief of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Director of Research of the Department of Radiology and Imaging
Division of MRI, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York USA

Hollis G. Potter, MD is Chief of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Director of Research of the Department of Radiology and Imaging, Attending Radiologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, as well as Professor of Radiology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She received her AB magna cum laude from Smith College and her MD from New York Medical College. Her specialty fellowship in orthopaedic radiology was obtained at the Hospital for Special Surgery.

Dr Potter is an Associate Scientist in the Research Division and a member of the Laboratory for Soft Tissue Research. She is a member of thirteen orthopaedic and imaging scientific societies, and the author of over 126 peer-reviewed articles, as well as 50 book chapters. She is an invited participant in scientific sessions at major orthopaedic meetings. Among her memberships are the AAOS, ORS, AOSSM, ISMRM, Knee Society and the Hip Society. She is the co-recipient of the AOA research award, the Cabaud award for excellence in basic science research from the AOSSM and the Nicholas Andry award from the ABJS.

She has continuously served on several NIH/NIAMS Study Sections since 2007 and is funded for both clinical and basic science MRI research. In addition, Dr Potter serves as a journal reviewer for many orthopaedic, imaging and rheumatologic-based journals. She is a recipient/co-recipient of nineteen research grants. Her current research focuses on assessment of early structural changes in osteoarthritis and imaging of complications related to joint arthroplasty.

Dr Eugene McNally

Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
University of Oxford, Headington Oxford, United Kingdom

Dr Eugene G. McNally FRCR FRCPI is Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

He graduated from the medical school of University College Dublin in 1983 and trained in Radiology at Northwick Park Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London. He joined the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Oxford in 1993 and was appointed Director of Musculoskeletal Radiology in 2001.

His special interests are the clinical application of musculoskeletal MRI and ultrasound. He has published over 50 articles in the medical literature, 10 book chapters and one book Practical Musculoskeletal Ultrasound. He gas given over 200 lectures in international meetings in the last 10 years, including one previous visit to RANZCR in Sydney in 1999.

Dr McNally is married to Catherine and has 3 children, Cian, Lise and Rebecca.

Professor Ronald Zagoria

Abdominal Imaging Section Head, Department of Radiological Sciences
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem North Carolina USA

Ron Zagoria, MD graduated from the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He then completed his radiology residency and a fellowship in abdominal and interventional radiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (formerly called the Bowman Gray School of Medicine). He is now a Professor with tenure in Radiology and Urology at Wake Forest University. He is the departmental Vice Chairman for Medical Affairs and the Section Head of the Abdominal Radiology Section.

In addition to authoring over 130 journal articles, 7 textbooks and many book chapters, he was the Associate Editor of the AJR and is now the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emergency Radiology. Dr Zagoria has received research funding for 15 projects.

He is a fellow in the American College of Radiology, the Society of Uroradiology and the European Society of Uroradiology. For the term from mid 2011 – mid 2012, he will be the President of the Society of Uroradiology.

His main research interests are imaging of renal tumors, CT of the urinary tract, and thermal ablation of renal tumors. Besides spending time with his wife Kathy and two grown children, he enjoys golf, tennis, scuba diving, and reading. He is an avid runner and completed his first marathon in 2009.

Dr David Connell

Medical Director, Olympic Park Radiology Clinic
Melbourne Australia

Dr Connell is the clinical director of the new musculoskeletal diagnostic and treatment facility in the Olympic Park precinct in Melbourne. Until recently, he was a consultant radiologist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and conducted his research at University College London. He has authored 81 publications, including book chapters and educational CD-Roms. He is the past president of the Australasian Musculoskeletal Imaging Group (2002-2004), sits on the editorial board of 5 journals, and he is an instructor on the Erasmus MRI European diploma. He also acts as a specialist advisor for NICE. Dr Connell was a radiologist at the Sydney Olympics and sits on the BSSR committee for the London 2012 games. He has a long history of imaging and treating elite athletes from the Royal Ballet, UK Athletics and professional football, rugby and cricket clubs. His current research is on stem cell therapy for the treatment of tendon disorders. He has been awarded over $1 million in funding for his research projects and has been elected as a fellow to the Sports & Exercise Medicine Faculty (UK). He is married to his beautiful wife Karen and they have 3 troublesome children.

Professor Andy Adam

Department of Radiology, St Thomas’ Hospital
London United Kingdom

Andy Adam trained in Radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and was appointed to the first professorial chair in interventional radiology in Europe at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Medical School in 1992. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and as President of eight national and international societies, including the Royal College of Radiologists and the European Society of Radiology. His primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of biliary and gastrointestinal intervention, and percutaneous tumour ablation. He has published over 200 scientific papers and book chapters, and has edited ten books.