International Speakers

Adel Mustafa, PhD, DABR, DABMP, FAAPM

More than 30 years of clinical and academic diagnostic medical physics covering radiology and nuclear medicine. Currently director of diagnostic medical physics at Yale University hospitals. Founder and director of Yale Diagnostic Imaging physics residency program. Director and lecturer at Yale radiology residents’ medical physics curriculum. Previously had more than 16 years as chief physicist and academic faculty at the teaching hospital of New York Medical College in Manhattan, New York. Main interest in Image quality optimization and radiation dose management from all imaging modalities and peruse of innovations in diagnostic imaging. Teaching faculty at several radiology residency programs in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Invited speaker at many international radiology and medical physics conferences. Gave more than 70 presentations in 12 countries from 2004-2016. For 10 years was committee member then Chief Editor of the nationally known RAPHEX physics preparation annual exam taken by residents in radiology and radiation oncology programs in the US. Also serving as oral examiner of diagnostic imaging physics with the American Board of Radiology since 2004. Served and still serving as chair, co-chair and member of many professional AAPM committees. Organized and gave presentations at more than 12 international medical physics conferences sponsored by the AAPM in developing countries. Served as IAEA consultant. A founding member and officer of the International Medical Physics Certification Program (IMPCB). Currently serving as member of the board, chair of the accreditation committee and the board chief examiner.

Adnan Sheikh, MD

Dr. Adnan Sheikh is an Associate professor of radiology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the Director of Advanced Musculoskeletal Interventions and Section head and fellowship Director of Emergency radiology at the Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Sheikh received his medical school and radiology specialist training from India and completed fellowships in musculoskeletal imaging and emergency trauma imaging from the University of British Columbia before coming on staff at The Ottawa Hospital in 2005. His clinical interests are functional musculoskeletal imaging, bone and soft tissue tumor imaging, MSK intervention and Emergency/Trauma imaging. Dr. Sheikh is actively involved in multimodality imaging based multidisciplinary research projects in collaboration with researchers from the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa University.

Specialty: Musculoskeletal Imaging, emergency/trauma Imaging.
Residency: J.J.M Medical College, India
Fellowship: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Clinical Interests: Musculoskeletal MRI, Sports Imaging, shoulder and ankle disease, MSK Intervention

Alan B. McMillan, PhD

Alan B. McMillan, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Health Sciences within the Department of Radiology and Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He obtained his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and PhD all in Biomedical Engineering at UW-Madison. He is currently the Lab Director of the Molecular Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Technology Lab (MIMRTL), where the team’s focus is to integrate advanced modeling, data science, and physics-based approaches to improve MRI and PET imaging techniques.

Alisa Walz-Flannigan, PhD

Medical Physicist, Doctor, Philosophy,
Division of Radiology,
Marshfield Clinic,
Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA

Andrei Iagaru, MD

Dr. Iagaru is a Professor of Radiology - Nuclear Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Stanford Health Care. He completed medical school at Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania, and an internship at Drexel University College of Medicine, Graduate Hospital, in the Department of Medicine in Philadelphia. He began his residency at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, in the Division of Nuclear Medicine, where he was the chief resident. Dr. Iagaru finished his residency and completed a PET/CT fellowship at Stanford University's School of Medicine in the Division of Nuclear Medicine. His research interests include PET/MRI and PET/CT for early cancer detection; clinical translation of novel PET radiopharmaceuticals; peptide-based diagnostic imaging and therapy.

Since joining the faculty at Stanford in 2007, Dr. Iagaru has received several awards including the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) 2009 Image of the Year Award; American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) Mid-Winter Conference 2010 Best Essay Award; 2009, 2014 and 2015Western Regional SNM Scientist Award; 2011 SNM Nuclear Oncology Council Young Investigator Award; and a Stanford Cancer Center 2009 Developmental Cancer Research Award in Translational Science. Dr. Iagaru presented more than 250 abstracts at national and international meetings and published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as 7 book chapters and 1 book (PET MRI in Oncology).

Andrew M. Hernandez, PhD

Andrew M. Hernandez is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Radiology at UC Davis Health. He obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UC Davis in 2017 where his work was focused on the development of new methods for improving dosimetry and image quality in breast x-ray imaging. The focus of his current work is on the design and development of advanced breast x-ray imaging systems, the assessment of model observer performance for clinically relevant tasks in high-resolution CT imaging, and the assessment of the diagnostic performance of these imaging systems equipped with deep learning reconstruction using rigorous state-of-the-art metrics.

Asim Mian, MD

Asim Mian, MD is an Assistant Professor of Radiology in Neuroradiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He created the functional MRI (fMRI) program at Boston Medical Center and has extensive experience treating stroke and trauma victims. His research interests are Alzheimer’s, white matter diseases, and brain tumor imaging. Currently, he is a co-investigator in multiple NIH funded studies.

Atiyah Yahya, PhD, FCCPM, P.Eng.

Dr. Atiyah Yahya is a Medical Physicist at the Cross Cancer Institute (Edmonton, AB, Canada) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada). She has a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences-Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta. She is CCPM (Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine) certified in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Physics, Diagnostic Radiological Physics and the Physics of Mammography and is a Fellow of the CCPM. Dr. Yahya's research field of expertise is magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). Her research involves optimizing MRS techniques for the improved detection and quantification of metabolites relevant to cancer including lipids. .

Avneesh Chhabra, MD

Avneesh Chhabra, M.D. is Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Chief of its Musculoskeletal Radiology Division. He also serves as Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging at Parkland Hospital. His clinical interests include magnetic resonance neurography (MRN), sports imaging, rheumatology and sarcoma imaging, and related image-guided interventions.
Originally from India, Dr. Chhabra earned his Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree at Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi. He completed his residency in radiology at Delhi University’s Willington Hospital before receiving additional diagnostic residency training at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. He then received advanced training in musculoskeletal radiology through a fellowship at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. In 2021, he earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Prior to joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 2013, Dr. Chhabra was an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Orthopedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Aya Kamaya, MD

Professor, University Medical Line, Radiology (Body Imaging)
Department of Radiology, Standford Hospital and Clinics,
Interim Chief, Body Imaging Division
President, Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound
Standford, California, USA

Bassem Elshahat, PhD, DABR, MCCPM

Dr. Bassem Elshahat is an imaging medical Physicist at Beaumont Health (ACR Imaging Center of Excellence) and Assistant professor in Diagnostic Radiology and Molecular imaging at Oakland University-William Beaumont School of Medicine, Michigan, USA. He is certified in diagnostic medical physics by the American Board of Radiology (ABR), nuclear medical physics by The Canadian College of Physicists and Medicine (CCPM) and Mammography Physics by The Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (CCPM). He holds a PhD in Medical Physics (CAMPEP) from University of Massachusetts. His current research is characterizing the Radiation detection properties of thin film photovoltaic cells and their application to medical X-ray imaging and dosimetry.

Brett Carter, MD

Dr. Brett W. Carter, MD is an Associate Professor of Radiology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where he currently serves as Quality Officer for the Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Clinical Co-Director of the Quantitative Imaging Analysis Core (QIAC), Co-Director of the Imaging Response Assessment Team (IRAT), Director of Thoracic CT, and Co-Director of Thoracic MRI. Dr. Carter is an Associate Editor for BMC Medical Imaging and the American College of Radiology’s Case-in-Point as well as Special Consulting Editor for American Journal of Roentgenology. He is the author/co-author of over 80 publications, 100 abstracts, and 120 books chapters, and the editor of 3 books. Dr. Carter has been the recipient of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) Young Investigator Initiative Award, RSNA Honored Educator Award, Distinguished Reviewer Award (American Journal of Roentgenology), Editors’ Recognition Award for Distinction in Reviewing (Journal of Thoracic Imaging), Editor’s Recognition Award with Special Distinction (RadioGraphics), and over 20 awards for educational exhibits, and was selected for the 2016 Melvin M. Figley Fellowship in Radiology Journalism by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS). Dr. Carter serves as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on over 60 clinical trials/protocols and has given numerous lectures at national and international conferences.

Bronwyn Hamilton, MD

Dr. Hamilton joined the faculty of Oregon Health & Science University as an assistant professor of neuroradiology in 2006. Dr. Hamilton received her B.S. in biochemistry and B.A. in French from Atlantic Union College, Lancaster, MA in 1992. She earned her medical degree, and completed her residency in diagnostic radiology from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, in CA., in 1996. She completed a one-year neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Utah in 2003. She was board certified in 2001, and received a certificate of added qualification in neuroradiology in 2004. She became assistant professor of radiology with Oregon Health & Science University in 2003, returned to University of Utah in 2004, and returned to Oregon Health & Science University in 2006. Dr. Hamilton is a member of the American Society of Neuroradiology, American Society of Head and Neck Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society, Radiological Society of North America, and Western Neuroradiological Society.

Candace Pau, MD

Dr. Pau is a Board-certified Family Medicine physician with experience practicing in Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care and Hospital-based Medicine settings. As the founding Faculty Director of Simulation at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Dr. Pau is responsible for the development and implementation of a robust, innovative simulation-based curriculum, encompassing simulation activities for both instruction and assessment at the undergraduate medical education level. She has extensive direct teaching and curricular design experience, including the use of flipped classroom, experiential learning, and serious gaming/gamification methodologies. Dr. Pau received her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed her residency training at the Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano Family Medicine Residency Program.

Carlo Chiesa, PhD

Since October 2002 member of Italian Internal Dosimetry Group, belonging to Italian Association Of Medical Physics (AIFM). From September 2006 coordinator of the group. From 2013 coordinator of the Italian WorkGroup of Physics Applied to Nuclear Medicine of AIFM.
Since October 2005, member of Dosimetry Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM). Senior advisor member from 2013 to 2019.Teacher TWICE at the Dosimetry course. lectures at EANM congresses.
In November 2013 teacher at the IAEA facility in Seibersdorf in a one week course on dosimetry to physicist coming from limited resources countries. In April 2009 and November 2016 teacher at the IAEA-ICTP one week course in Trieste.
Since 2008, teacher at the yearly training course on Therasphere by Biocompatibles BTG L.t.d. (Camberley UK), held in National cancer Institute of Milan. Teacher at BTG symposium at the European Congress of Nuclear Medicine EANM 2015.
Since 2014 consultant for Biocompatibles BTG L.t.d. for dosimetry and safety of Therasphere treatment of liver disease. Speaker to BTG symposium during EANM congresses 2015, 2016, 2017.
In 2015, consultant for MedPace CRO corelab (Cincinnati OHIO USA) for instrument validation in an international multicenter study of a 131-I labeled antibody.
In July 2016 teacher at the 3 days dosimetry course organized by the European Federation of Medical Physics (EFOMP).
Teacher to IAEA one week dosimetry courses in ICTP Trieste in 2010 and 2016. In September 2016 and November 2017 sent as ONU officer by IAEA to a one week national dosimetry course in Kuwait.
In 2017-2018 consultant of Alfasigma (Pomezia Rome Italy)
From 2018 member of the board of the Italian Association of Medical Physics.

Charles Kahn, MD

Dr. Charles Kahn is professor and vice chair of radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, senior fellow of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, and senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, all at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a practicing radiologist with expertise in body CT and ultrasound, and holds degrees in Mathematics (BA) and Computer Sciences (MS). Dr. Kahn’s professional interests include artificial intelligence, information standards, knowledge representation, and health services research. Honors include the Gold Medal of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), Honorary Membership of the Italian Society of Medical Radiology (SIRM), and elected Fellowship of the American College of Radiology, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. He has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, and given more than 140 invited lectures. He serves as editor of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence.

Christopher Clement, MSc, CHP, MSRP

Christopher Clement is the Scientific Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). He became Scientific Secretary in 2008, the ninth to hold this position since ICRP (originally named the International X-Ray and Radium Protection Committee) was established in 1928. He oversees the daily business of ICRP, represents the organisation in many international fora, and has presented well over 300 invited lectures on radiological protection in more than 40 countries. He has overseen the production of more than 70 issues of Annals of the ICRP as Editor-in-Chief, the basis of radiological protection standards, legislation, and practice world-wide. In addition to his ICRP duties, since 2012 he has been a member of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) Executive Council, and Vice-President of IRPA since 2021.
Mr Clement has a Master of Science degree in Medical Physics and is a Certified Health Physicist. He has more than thirty years of experience in radiological protection, and prior to joining ICRP worked in environmental monitoring and remediation, radiological counterterrorism, and as Director of Radiation Protection at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission overseeing radiation protection regulation in all sectors across the country. For several years he represented Canada at the IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee, and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health.
He has received the two highest honours of the Canadian Radiation Protection Association (CRPA): the Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Richard V. Osborne Founders' Award. In March 2019, he also received the Ambassador’s Award from the Ambassador of Japan to Canada for his work in recovery after the Fukushima Daiichi accident and the promotion of mutual understanding and friendly relations between Japan and Canada.

Cristina Fuss, MD, FSCCT, FNASCI

Dr. Fuss is the section chief for cardiothoracic imaging in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology. She joined OHSU faculty in October 2012 after finishing a cardiothoracic imaging fellowship at OHSU. She received her medical degree in 1993 from the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg Germany. Her postgraduate training included a diagnostic radiology residency at both the University of Heidelberg and OHSU.
Dr. Fuss has been appointed section chief of cardiothoracic imaging as of April 2015. She’s interested in both adult and pediatric congenital and acquired cardiac and thoracic diseases. Her special interest is in lung cancer, both screening and therapy evaluation, as well as complex cardiac valve disease. She serves on the thoracic imaging ABR certifying and MOC committee for thoracic imaging. Dr. Fuss is an active member of several regional, national and international radiology societies and reviewer for multiple radiology journals.

Dale Bailey, PhD, FIPEM, FACPSEM, ARCP (Lond.) CSci (UK)

Dale Bailey is principal physicist in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital and Professor in Medical Radiation Science at the University of Sydney. He received undergraduate and masters' degrees in physics from the University of Technology, Sydney and his doctorate from the University of Surrey (UK). Dale has held research appointments at Harvard Medical School, with the Medical Research Council (UK) at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London prior to taking up his current appointment. Dale has a long-standing interest in quantitative imaging with SPECT, most recently employing X-ray CT in combination with SPECT imaging. He has also made contributions in developing 3D PET scanning.

Daniel Salcedo MD, MHPE

Daniel Salcedo is a General Internal Medicine specialist with a deep passion for health professions education and technology. He completed his Master of Health Professions Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions and has worked over 15 years as an educator based in Tokyo and Taipei, and has extensive international teaching experience in Asia, Europe, Australia, North and South America.
Throughout his career as an educator, Daniel has focused on developing and implementing sustainable and cost-efficient technological innovations to enhance health professions education around the globe.
He is the Director of the Clinical Education Centre at Taipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital (TMU), where he teaches clinical skills and focuses on introducing technological innovations to aid and enhance bedside learning.
Daniel is also Director of Educational Research and Innovation at the Centre of Education in Medical Simulation (CEMS) at Taipei Medical University, where he collaborates with industry (Google, HTC, Acer, and others) to develop Extended Reality (XR) applications and hardware for health professions education, as well as several other technological innovations such as Artificial Intelligence and online collaboration systems for teaching and learning.
He is Co-Chair of the Technology-Enhanced Learning Committee at the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and has worked as an international consultant for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the field of health professions education development in Asia.

David Bradley, PhD

David Bradley (PhD (USM), MSc (London), BSc (Exeter)) is Professor of Radiation and Medical Physics at the University of Surrey. He has taught and researched in Universities for some 35 years. For some 14 years he Directed MSc programmes in Medical Physics. He was also for six years the Secretary of the International Radiation Physics Society (IRPS). Presently he is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Radiology and Consulting Editor to the Elsevier journals 'Applied Radiation and Isotopes' and 'Radiation Physics and Chemistry'. Dr Bradley is the author of over 250 publications and has made more than 150 presentations at conferences. His interests are in researching the fundamental interactions of radiation in matter as well as their applications in biomedical areas and in industry.
Dr Bradley has active research interests in the fundamentals and applications of photon scattering, radioanalytical techniques for determination of trace element concentrations, radiological risks associated with Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM), the development of synchrotron techniques for characterisation of media, predominantly biological tissues, radiation effects on tissues, and development of silica based luminesence dosimeters.
Research projects of current interest include: the localisation of Zn and Sr in synovial joints, the development of doped radiosensitive glass, the effects of ionizing radiation on extracellular matrix, and near-edge elastic photon scattering from dilute aqueous ions.

Debbie van der Merwe, PhD

Debbie van der Merwe was appointed as the Section Head of Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics in the Division of Human Health at the IAEA in December 2017. As Section Head, she coordinates the development of guidance in radiation metrology and medical physics education and recognition, quality assurance and dosimetry; and oversees coordinated research activities in all fields of medical radiation physics. She is also responsible for the Agency dosimetry calibration, comparison and audit services in her role as co-Secretariat of the IAEA/WHO SSDL Network; and provides technical input to national, regional and inter-regional Technical Cooperation Projects. Prior to her appointment, she was the Academic and Clinical Head of Department of Medical Physics at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital / University of the Witwatersrand complex. She holds a PhD in Medical Physics from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Throughout her career she has contributed to the development of medical physics professional capacity both nationally and regionally.

Deborah Lee, Ph.D., FNP, ACNP-BC

Dr. Deborah Lee is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and Co-Director of the Clinical Learning Center at the School of Nursing. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor who teaches in the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program and a critical care nurse practitioner. Dr. Lee has experience in using a variety of simulation learning methods including augmented reality to train healthcare providers in a variety of medical procedures. Dr. Lee practices as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and has created protocols for the acutely deteriorating patient and has designed proactive round reports to assist in the detection of worsening clinical status. She publishes and presents in the are of simulation based learning.

Diana Paez Gutierrez

Dr Diana Paez Gutierrez is the Head of the Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section, Division of Human Health, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Born in Bogota, Colombia, Dr Paez graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of El Bosque University, with a degree in Nuclear Medicine from the National Cancer Institute, Javeriana University in 1994 and attended fellowship trainings in nuclear cardiology at the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital and in Nuclear Oncology (PET) at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA in 1997. She also holds a master’s degree in Communication and Education from the Autonoma University in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr Paez has a specific interest in supporting countries in improving access to healthcare and in addressing disparity and diversity. She places special emphasis on strengthening the competences of nuclear medicine and diagnostic imaging professionals worldwide, in particular by using information and communication technologies to expand the outreach of the educational activities undertaken by the IAEA. She strives to establish and strengthen cooperation with professional organizations, to join forces and provide coordinated support and grant accreditation to IAEA training and conference participants.
Dr Paez has published over 80 book chapters and articles in scientific journals. She is an avid lecturer, participant on scientific panels and has chaired numerous symposia and scientific meetings as scientific secretary.

Eng. Donato Monopoli, PhD

Donato Monopoli is a biomedical engineer focused on biomechanics with a large experience in research and development of innovative medical devices from bench to bedside. He has 26 years of experience working in different positions and companies dealing with bone implants. Since 2000 is the head of the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC) and technical director of patient´s specific implants service during the last 11 years. His research team has extensive experience in high porous titanium structures for bone regeneration implant design and additive manufacturing. Since 2018 is cofounder and R&D advisor of Osteobionix and Biosurgex products´ lines. He is author of several articles and 6 international patents.

Eenas Omari, PhD, DABR

Dr. Omari is an assistant professor and clinical therapeutic medical physicist at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in medical physics. Her dissertation was focused on ultrasound elastography and attenuation imaging in cancer detection applications. Following the completion of her graduate studies, she was recruited to a postdoctoral fellowship in radiation oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin where she worked on research in the areas of ultrasound and MRI guided radiotherapy from 2014-2016. Dr. Omari completed her clinical training in therapeutic medical physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. Following her clinical training, she joined Loyola University Chicago where she took on lead roles in commissioning the Viewray MRIdian MRI linac and clinical implementation of the MRIgRT program. She was the lead physicist implementing MRI guided real-time on-table adaptive radiotherapy (ROAR). In 2020, the Medical College of Wisconsin recruited her back to take a faculty position where she plays an important role in the online MRI guided adaptive radiotherapy program using the Elekta Unity system.

Dr. Omari's research interests include image guided radiotherapy (IGRT) with an emphasis on online adaptive MRI. She is actively working on the development of quantitative methods in treatment and toxicity assessment using MRI. As a faculty member, Dr. Omari mentors therapy physics residents and holds various lectures in the area of imaging and therapy physics for medical residents. Dr. Omari has over 45 published peer-reviewed papers, conference proceedings, and abstracts. She is a member of the AAPM and ASTRO. She has been awarded several honors including becoming an associate of the Science Council mentorship program (SCAMP) from 2019 to 2021.

Elena Peña MD

Dr. Peña is an associate professor in the Radiology Department of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine and a cardiothoracic radiologist in the Department of Medical Imaging at The Ottawa Hospital. She is also part of the emergency radiology section.
Dr. Peña is the fellowship program director for thoracic and cardiac radiology fellowship programs. She was the previous resident supervisor for the cardiothoracic imaging rotation and has been a lecturer at the Resident Review Course that has been held in Ottawa in March every year since 2010 and the Preparing for Call Course since 2017. She was the co-director for the past CME course entitled “Cardiopulmonary Imaging Update” held in June 2013 in Quebec City. She presents in national and international conferences in multiple topics regarding cardiothoracic radiology.
Dr. Peña has published several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and presented more than 30 oral presentations and posters at national and international meetings. Her primary clinical interest is in cardiopulmonary vascular imaging. Other research interests are in pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, heart failure and other cardiopulmonary vascular diseases.

Elizabeth Ainsbury, PhD

Elizabeth is a Radiation Protection Scientist at PHE's Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Effects. As head of the Cytogenetics Group and the Chromosome Dosimetry Service, Liz's main field of research is radiation biodosimetry using the cytogenetic (cellular and chromosomal) effects of ionising radiation to estimate individual doses. Liz also has an interest in wider radiation protection, particularly whole body radiation effects and radiation cataractogenesis.
As a group leader, Liz has participated in many national and international collaborative research projects including leading/co-leading recent projects developing statistical analysis methods for biodosimetry (EU FP7 MULTIBIODOSE WP6 lead, Royal Society IJP080153), advancing EU biodosimetry techniques and networking for provision of emergency response capabilities (MULTIBIODOSE, RENEB, WHO BioDoseNet, EURADOS). Currently she co-leads two projects focused on development of biomarkers for radiotherapy patients - the NIHR HPRU project "Chemical and Radiation Threats and Hazards" in collaboration with Newcastle University and the US NIH funded CMCR "RTGene"project and is PI for a current EU CONCERT funded project 'LDLensRad' investigating mechanisms of radiation induced cataracts. Liz has presented at numerous scientific conferences and meetings, including giving invited talks, and has contributed to approximately 70 peer-reviewed publications, including around 20 as the first named author.
Liz has supervised a number of successful Ph. D. projects and regularly lectures on a number of courses at UK and EU Universities, including the Oxford University Radiation Oncology & Biology M. Sc. in Radiation Biology. Liz's current committee memberships include ISO Working Group 18 on biological dosimetry (2014 - current) and US National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements Subcommittee 1-23: Guidance on Radiation Dose Limits for the Lens of the Eye (2013 - current). Liz is a Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstPhys), the Society for Radiation Protection and the Association for Radiation Research. She received the MELODI Young Researcher Award for multidisciplinary EU low dose radiation research In 2014, and the inaugural Institute of Physics Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year Award in 2007.

Eslam Kamal, PhD

Dr. Eslam Kamal is a Medical Physics consultant, and Radiation Safety Expert at Burjeel Medical City, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Dept, UAE, Abu Dhabi. He holds a Ph.D. in medical physics 2019 from Cairo University, Egypt. He has International Medical Physics Certification Board in Diagnostic Radiology IMPCB (Part1 & 2). He has 12 research articles & 6 Abstracts in medical imaging and radiation protection. He is a Medical physics instructor at General department of Radiology, Health Ministry, Egypt. He is training around 10000 radiographers on dose optimization techniques in computed tomography, organized by Health Ministry, Egypt. He is International Medical Application specialist in East Africa and Pacific Islands. He has Over 130 teaching videos on YouTube channel in the medical imaging fields. He is a Member of the society of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging SNMMI, and the European society of radiology ESR.

Fadi Khreish, MD

Saarland University Hospital
Ist eine Abteilung von Kirrberger
Homburg, Saarland, Germany

Prof. Francesco Ceci, MD, PhD

Director of Nuclear Medicine Department - IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology - University of Milan
MD, board certified in Nuclear Medicine, PhD in Urological Sciences.
Young Academic Urologist at the European Association of Urology (EAU).
Faculty Member of the European School of Multimodality Imaging and Therapy (ESMIT).

Research Interest:
- Clincal and pre-clinical application of Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) for imaging and therapy in Prostate Cancer.
- Clinical application of New Generation Imaging procedures in genito-urinary malignancy, including radio-guided surgery (RGS).
- Clinical application of predictive models in Prostate Cancer
- Clinical and Preclinical application of Radio-ligand therapy (RLT) in oncology.
- Translational Imaging and development of new PET radio-pharmaceuticals in oncology.

François DeBlois, PhD

Dr. François DeBlois is a Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine since 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 from McGill University and completed his clinical residency training at McGill University Health Centre in 2003. He worked at McGill University Health Centre until 2007. From 2007 to 2017 he was assistant professor at McGill and Chief Clinical Physicist at the Jewish General Hospital, a McGill teaching Hospital. He has supervised many graduate students and is an instructor in the McGill graduate medical physics program. Since 2017 he is head of physics at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal (CHUM). His main interests are medical physics software, devices and treatment techniques development.

Frank Rybicki, MD

Vice Chair, Operations and Quality
Univ. of Cincinnati Department of Radiology
Director, Medical Affairs, Imagia
Montreal, Canada,

Giorgia Loreti

Giorgia Loreti is a Medical Physics Training Officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Her work particularly focuses on the application and development of international guidelines in medical physics education and training, in pursuit of addressing the challenges faced by medical physicists with respect to access to clinical training, continuing professional development and recognition as health professionals. A Prince2 certificate Practitioner, she has a key interest in supporting the development and application of structured quality management processes in medical physics education. Before joining the IAEA, she worked as medical physicist in the field of radiation oncology at the S. Orsola University Hospital in Bologna. She holds a postgraduate-level degree in physics and a third-cycle specialisation degree in clinical medical physics, both from the University of Bologna in Italy.

Govind Chavhan, MD, DNB, DABR

Associate Professor,
Department of Diagnostic Imaging,
Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada,

Prof. Habib Zaidi, PhD, FIEEE, FAIMBE, FAAPM, FIOMP

Habib Zaidi is Chief physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and full Professor at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also a Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics and Molecular Imaging at the University of Southern Denmark. He was guest editor for 12 special issues of peer-reviewed journals and serves on the editorial board of leading journals in medical physics and medical imaging. He has been elevated to the grade of fellow of the IEEE, AIMBE and the AAPM. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by his peers since he is a recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious (100’000$) 2010 kuwait Prize of Applied sciences (known as the Middle Eastern Nobel Prize) and the 2019 Khwarizmi International Award given by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). Prof. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of over 160 keynote lectures and talks at an International level, has authored over 340 peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals and is the editor of four textbooks.

Haitham Elsamaloty, MD

Dr. Haitham M. Elsamaloty is a nuclear medicine specialist in Toledo, Ohio and is affiliated with University of Toledo Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Haris Iqbal Sair, MD

Dr. Haris Sair is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, and the Director of the Division of Neuroradiology. His areas of clinical expertise include functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the brain. He also has a faculty appointment in the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at The Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, investigating the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in imaging.
Dr. Sair earned his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Temple University Medical Center and performed a fellowship in neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.

Ioannis Tsougos, PhD

Dr. Ioannis Tsougos holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics, a Master’s and Doctorate in Medical Radiation Physics and a Master’s in Clinical Education. He has studied and trained in London Metropolitan University and King’s College London (UK), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Emory University (USA), University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Patras (Greece). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Medical Radiation Physics in the Medical School of the University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece and a visiting Professor at King’s College London. He has authored more than 100 research papers, 11 book chapters and an international book in Advanced MRI techniques. He is a member of the EFOMP, ESR, and ESMRMB. His main research interests are Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques and AI applications, Radiation Biology and Nuclear Medicine. He is the director of the Master’s program “Biomedical Imaging and Radiation Protection” (www.birp.med.uth.gr) and an Associate Editor in Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment Journal. Currently he serves as the Vice Dean of the Medical School of the University of Thessaly, Greece.

Ismail Baris Turkbey, MD

Dr. Turkbey obtained his medical degree from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey in 2003. He completed his residency in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Hacettepe University. He joined Molecular Imaging Branch (MIB), National Cancer Institute, NIH in 2007. His main research areas are imaging of prostate cancer (multiparametric MRI, PET CT), image guided biopsy and treatment techniques (focal therapy, surgery and radiation therapy) for prostate cancer and artificial intelligence. Dr. Turkbey is a member of Prostate Imaging Reporting & Data System (PI-RADS) Steering Committee. He is the Director Magnetic Resonance Imaging section in MIB and the Artificial Intelligence Resource in MIB.
Dr. Turkbey’s main research interests focus on prostate cancer imaging (multiparametric MRI, PET CT), prostate biopsy techniques, focal therapy for prostate cancer and artificial intelligence (segmentation, decision support systems). Dr. Turkbey is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Resource (AIR), which makes AI tools available to CCR investigators with the goal of developing better screening and detection methods or predictive markers for patients.

Areas of Expertise
1) Imaging,
2) Prostate cancer,
3) Lymphatic imaging,
4) Experimental MRI,
5) Artificial Intelligence

Issam El Naqa, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FIEEE

Professor and Chair, Machine Learning
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Tampa, FL, USA

Ivan Buzurovic, PhD, DABR, CMD

Chief, Brachytherapy Physics,
Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics,
Department of Radiation Oncology,
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center,
Assistant Professor,
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, USA

Ivo Rausch, PhD

Ivo Rausch studied Technical Physics at the University of Technology Vienna with a focus on nuclear physics and radiation protection and accomplished the PhD program in Medical Physics at the Medical University of Vienna. Today, Dr Ivo Rausch is a senior scientist in the QIMP Team at the Center of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna. His research interests relate to quantitative hybrid imaging in nuclear medicine with a special focus on PET/MRI and PET/CT. Besides his academic work, Ivo Rausch is a member of the ESHIMT research committee, board member of the Austrian Society for Radiation Protection in Medicine (VMSÖ) and member of the Medical Physics working group of the Austrian Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (OGNMB). Further, he is certified medical physicist according to Austrian/European legislation and received a venia docendi in Medical Physics at the Medical University of Vienna.

Jamema Swamidas, PhD

Dr. Jamema Swamidas is the Laboratory Head (Dosimetry Laboratory) of the Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics section at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria.
Prior to her appointment to the IAEA in 2021, she was working as a senior Medical Physicist and Associate Professor in the department of Medical Physics, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience in radiation oncology medical physics covering all aspects of clinical service, research, and education. She has special research interest in brachytherapy, treatment planning, patient safety and adaptive radiotherapy. She was the primary physicist responsible for accrediting Tata Memorial hospital for various clinical trials, most of them being international-multicentric, testing advanced technologies. Her major contributions were implementation of image guided brachytherapy and automated treatment planning for gynaecological cancers.
Dr. Swamidas is the author / co-author of more than 60 scientific papers and 6 book chapters. Her article on patient safety in brachytherapy has won the Elsevier award in 2018. She has served as the course director for Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROI) – ESTRO course on image guided brachytherapy and has lectured in ESTRO, IAEA and various national / international courses in many different countries. She has also served as a chief examiner of the College of Medical Physicist of India.

Jan Arensmeyer, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery
University Hospital Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Jan Fritz, MD

Dr. Jan Fritz is a full-time musculoskeletal radiologist, Associate Professor, and the Division Chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. His research and practice focus on the development and clinical integration of novel and rapid musculoskeletal MRI techniques, metal artifact reduction MRI, MR Neurography, interventional MR imaging, and machine learning techniques. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles, reviews, and book chapters and lectured at many national and international meetings. He serves on the editorial boards of Skeletal Radiology, Current Radiology Reports, PlosONE, Korean Journal of Radiology, and Investigative Radiology.

Jessica W.T. Leung, MD, FACR, FSBI

Dr. Jessica Leung is Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She is Section Chief of Breast Imaging at MD Anderson Cancer Center, overseeing the section's clinical operations, research and educational endeavors, and faculty development.
Dr. Leung graduated from Harvard University with summa cum laude honors followed by medical training at Harvard Medical School. She completed both her Diagnostics Radiology Residency and Women's Imaging Fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Upon completion of her training, Dr. Leung has served as faculty a Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and UCSF. She ahs also served as Medical Director of the Breast Health Center at California Pacific Medical Center (Sutter Health), which is a large comprehensive nationally recognized breast center in San Francisco.
Dr. Leung has a long record of national service. Currently, she is a member of the American College of Radiology (ACRA) Committees on Economics, Education, and BI-RADS. She has also served on the ACR Committee on Government Relations and Stereotactic Biopsy. She remains an active clinical reviewer for the ACR Stereotactic, Biopsy Accreditation Program and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Accreditation Program and serves on a Board of Directors of the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.
Dr. Leung has published practice-setting, peer-reviewed research studies and review articles in breast imaging. She has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally and has received many awards and recognitions, including the American Roentgen Ray Scholar and UCSF Outstanding Teacher Award. She has been honored as Fellow of American College of Radiology and a Fellow of the Society of Breast Imaging.

Jim Wu, MD

Vice Chair, Education and Lifelong Learning
Chief, Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention
Associate Professor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA

Joel Fletcher, MD

Radiologist, Radiology Department,
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

John Dickson, PhD

John is Head of Clinical Nuclear Medicine Physics at University College London Hospitals and is honorary associate professor with University College London. With his team of medical physicists, he is responsible for the support, development and quality assurance of PET/MR, PET/CT, SPECT/CT and radionuclide therapy services. His research interests are in the quantification of SPECT and PET biomarkers. John has published over 70 peer reviewed articles, 6 book chapters and is editor of one book. He also sits on numerous international nuclear medicine committees.

Juan Ruiz Alzola, MD

Juan Ruiz-Alzola (JRA) is Full Professor in Imaging Technologies within the field of Signal Theory and Communications, at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), at the Department of Signal and Communications (DSC), School of Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics (EITE). He is also an affiliate researcher at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), where he leads the medical technology programme. He is the Director of the Advanced Technologies Service for the Smart Specialization of the Canary Islands at the ULPGC Science and Technology Park Foundation (FPCT-ULPGC), and the Director of the Medical and Audiovisual Technology Group (GTMA) at ULPGC Institute for Biomedical and Health Research (IUIBS). He is also member of the University of La Laguna (ULL) Institute on Neuroscience (IUNE).
As the director of GTMA at ULPGC, JRA leads a recently formed team (2017) of researchers from different fields, working together with the aim of producing medical technology (mainly imaging), amenable for global use, including developing countries. Every scientific, technological, clinical, economic and societal challenge is holistically addressed in this very innovative effort, with the goal of producing medical technology well-aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations. Our team collaborates with national and international partners, ranging from US (eg. Surgical Planning Lab at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s hospital, in Boston), Canada (Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery at Queen’s University, Ontario), Europe (eg Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute for Digital Medicine) and Spain, to institutions in Africa. We have the goal of extending our activity to other developing countries and of providing an international hub for global collaboration in medical technology among global leading institutions and enterprises. Our team is also part of the NAMIC international community for medical image computing, led by Harvard researchers. NAMIC project weeks alternate site biannually, between MIT and Las Palmas (since 2018), with JRA as the local organizer. At the IAC’s medical technology program, JRA leads a team of researchers and engineers producing technology transfer from the field of astrophysics to medicine. Our work addresses leveraging microwave and infrared passive sensing technology for the early detection of subcutaneous ulcerations. The efforts carried out both at ULPGC and IAC are highly synergistic, so that continuous transfer of knowledge happens between both.
JRA coordinated the elaboration of the Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) of the Canary Islands 2014-2020. He was the director of the Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (ACIISI), since 2007 to 2015 and Research and Technology Director of the Canary Islands Institute of Technology (ITC) since 2004 to 2007. JRA was a member of the board of directors and Vicepresident of Gran Telescopio de Canarias, the largest optical and infrared telescope in the World until 2020.

Justin Sutherland, PhD, MCCPM

Justin Sutherland is a medical physicist at the Ottawa Hospital and an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. At the Ottawa Hospital, Dr. Sutherland has performed research on the application of virtual reality to interaction with medical images and pre-procedure planning. His efforts lead to the founding of the spin-out company, Realize Medical, which he now pursues as CEO.

Khaled Elsayes, MD

Dr. Elsayes is a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and in the Medical School of University Texas in Houston. Dr. Elsayes is a well-known world renowned radiologist with more than 300 peer review publications and abstracts, 100 visiting professorships, many presentations in international conferences and over 70 international awards (including 2014 RSNA honored educator award). Dr. Elsayes is an imminent speaker in national and international conferences, fellow of Washington University in Saint Louis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as well as several international societies, including the society of Abdominal Radiology. Dr. Elsayes has been an examiner of the American Board of Radiology and Saudi Board of Radiology. He is also editorial member of several international journals. Dr. Elsayes is an editor and author of three major radiology textbooks; “Introduction to Diagnostic Radiology” published by McGraw-Hill, “Cross Sectional Imaging of the Abdomen and Pelvis” published by Springer, “Pitfalls of the Abdomen and Pelvis” published by Elsevier.

Laurence Edward Court, PhD

Laurence Court is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Director of the Radiation Planning Assistant Project. This project uses artificial intelligence and other automation tools to support radiotherapy practice at MD Anderson, and at radiotherapy clinics with limited resources in low- and middle-income countries. Their team of around 30 dedicated researchers has developed automated contouring and planning tools for head and neck, cervical, post-mastectomy breast and whole brain treatments (RPA.mdanderson.org) that they plan to start offering in South Africa later in 2022.

Leonid Leonidovitch Chepelev , PhD, MD

Assistant Professor,
Department of Radiology
College of Medicine,
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Luigi Rigon, PhD

Luigi Rigon is Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Trieste, Italy, and a teacher for the Advanced Master in Medical Physics, jointly organized by the University of Trieste and by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste. He is also associated to INFN, the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics. His research activity is focused on phase-contrast x-ray imaging, with particular regard to medical imaging with coherent x-ray sources. As a member of the research group of the SYRMEP beamline at Elettra, the third-generation synchrotron radiation facility in Trieste, he has contributed to research in mammography and breast computed tomography with synchrotron radiation. He has authored 140 peer reviewed publications on international scientific journals, and he is member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group, London, England, UK).

Lukas Müller, MD

Resident, Radiology Department of Radiology
Research Fellow, Else Kröner Research College,
Medical School,
University Medical Center Mainz
Germany

Madan Rehani, PhD

Dr. Madan M. Rehani is Director, Global Outreach for Radiation Protection at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. He is President, International Organization for Medical Physics (June 2018-May 2022). He has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Duke University, USA. He was earlier Radiation Safety Specialist at the International Atomic Energy Agency for 11 years and prior to that Professor and Head of Medical Physics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Dr. Rehani is an Emeritus Member, International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), having been active member for 24 years. He is author of 9 Annals of ICRP, 4 of which as Chair of the Task Group. He is Senior editor Br J Radiology and Assoc Editor, Eur J Medical Physics. He has more than 175 publications, has written 40 chapters in Books and has edited 5 books. Besides radiology journals, he has published papers in high impact factor journals e.g. JAMA Intern Med, Br Med J, Eur Heart J, Cardiovascular Imaging, Am J Gastroenterol, Circulation J, The Lancet.

Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, PhD, DABR

Dr. Magdalena Bazalova-Carter is an Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She received her PhD degree at McGill University and postdoctoral training at Stanford University. Her current research interests include Monte Carlo simulations and experiments of x-ray fluorescence and photon-counting CT imaging, small animal radiotherapy and FLASH radiotherapy. She is the recipient of the 2018 John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award awarded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Dr. Bazalova-Carter is a Deputy Editor of Medical Physics.

Mahmood Hamad Al Abri

Senior Interventional Radiology Technologist, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital
Muscat, Oman

Manickam "Nicks" Kumaravel, MD

Manickam “Nicks” Kumaravel, is based at the University of Texas Health Science center in Houston, Texas USA. At UTHealth he is an Assistant Vice President, Professor of Radiology and Orthopedics, and is the Chief of the Musculoskeletal section. His clinical training includes a residency in Orthopedics and Trauma with surgical board certifications from the United Kingdom. He is also a team doctor with the NFL Texans. Nicks is a keen educator with an interest in radiology education for high school, medical school students and for residents, fellows, and practicing radiologists in the United States and also as part of international outreach programs. His research interests include traumatic hip injuries, the role of biologics in elite athlete injuries, imaging of cartilage, and the use of UTE (Ultrashort TE) sequences in the assessment of ligament healing. He is an avid cyclist and plays a game called cricket!

Marco Durante, PhD

Director, Biophysis Department
GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research GmbH
Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany

Maria del Rosario Perez, MD

Physician specialized in Radiation Oncology, with a post-graduate diploma on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety. She was Head of the Radiopathology Laboratory at the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) in Argentina where she coordinated research projects on the effects of ionizing radiation on the immune system, fetal brain, and endothelial cells, contributed to radiation protection education and training programs in Latin America, and participated in international expert teams involved in the preparedness and response in radiation emergencies. She has been working at the WHO Radiation Programme since 2007. She contributed to the revision of the International Radiation Basic Safety Standards (BSS), as a WHO representative at the Joint BSS Secretariat. She represents WHO at the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety (IACRS), the IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC), the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the EC Group of Scientific Experts referred to in Article 31 of the Euratom Treaty. Her main responsibility at WHO is the technical coordination of the WHO Global Initiative on Radiation Safety in Health Care Settings.

Martin Vallières, PhD

Martin Vallières is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Université de Sherbrooke and a Canada-CIFAR AI Chair since April 2020. He received a PhD in Medical Physics from McGill University in 2017, and completed post-doctoral training in France and USA in 2018 and 2019. The overarching goal of Martin Vallières’ research is centered on the development of clinically-actionable models to better personalize cancer treatments and care. Over the course of his career, he has developed multiple prediction models for different types of cancers. His main research interest is now focused on the graph-based integration of heterogeneous medical data types for improved precision oncology

Maryellen Giger, PhD

Maryellen L. Giger, Ph.D. is the A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Radiology, Committee on Medical Physics, and the College at the University of Chicago. She is also the Vice-Chair of Radiology (Basic Science Research) and the immediate past Director of the CAMPEP-accredited Graduate Programs in Medical Physics/ Chair of the Committee on Medical Physics at the University.
For over 30 years, she has conducted research on computer-aided diagnosis, including computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, in the areas of breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, lupus, and bone diseases.
Over her career, she has served on various NIH, DOD, and other funding agencies’ study sections, and is now a member of the NIBIB Advisory Council of NIH.
She is a former president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and a former president of the SPIE (the International Society of Optics and Photonics) and was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and was awarded the William D. Coolidge Gold Medal from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the highest award given by the AAPM. She is a Fellow of AAPM, AIMBE, SPIE, SBMR, IEEE, and IAMBE, a recipient of the EMBS Academic Career Achievement Award and the SPIE Director's Award, and a Hagler Institute Fellow at Texas A&M University. In 2013, Giger was named by the International Congress on Medical Physics (ICMP) as one of the 50 medical physicists with the most impact on the field in the last 50 years. In 2018, she received the iBIO iCON Innovator award.
She has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications (over 300 publications), has more than 30 patents and has mentored over 100 graduate students, residents, medical students, and undergraduate students.
Her research in computational image-based analyses of breast cancer for risk assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and response to therapy has yielded various translated components, and she is now using these image-based phenotypes, i.e., these “virtual biopsies” in imaging genomics association studies for discovery.
She has now extended her AI in medical imaging research to include the analysis of COVID-19 on CT and chest radiographs, and is PI on the NIH NIBIB-funded Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC).
She was a cofounder of Quantitative Insights, Inc., which started through the 2009-2010 New Venture Challenge at the University of Chicago. QI produced QuantX, which in 2017, became the first FDA-cleared, machine-learning-driven system to aid in cancer diagnosis (CADx). In 2019, QuantX was named one of TIME magazine's inventions of the year, and was bought by Qlarity Imaging.

Mauro Carrara

Dr. Mauro Carrara is working as a Radiotherapy Medical Physicist for the Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics Section at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He is author or co-author of more than 75 scientific papers published on peer-reviewed journals, mainly in the field of dosimetry, external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy. Prior to his appointment to the IAEA, he was working as radiotherapy medical physicist for the National Cancer Institute in Milan, Italy, covering all aspects of clinical service, research, and education. He was involved as principal investigator or co-investigator in several granted research projects and was supervisor of more than 35 Master/PhD students and residents. He had an appointment as Professor for the Master of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy), for the 2nd level Master in Gynecological Brachytherapy at the “La Sapienza” University, Rome (Italy), and at the Department of Medicine and Surgery at the Universitá Statale, Milan (Italy).

Meshari
Al-Nuaimi, PhD

Dr. Al-Nuaimi has made outstanding contributions in the field of medical physics and radiation protection in medicine by his actions in establishing the first dedicated medical physics unit in Kuwait and through his active involvements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) through national and regional technical cooperation projects to promote for radiation safety culture.
Dr. Al-Nuaimi is the president of Kuwait Association of Medical Physics (KAMP), vice president of middle east federation of medical physics (MEFOMP) and leads radiation physics department in Kuwait Cancer Control Centre. He studied nuclear medicine science at Kuwait University and received Master degree and PhD in medical physics and biomedical engineering form University College London (UCL).
Dr. Al-Nuaimi is an autonomous worker committed to providing high quality medical physics and radiation safety services by utilizing the organizational, teaching and communication skills developed through my involvement as an expert in nuclear medicine, radiation protection, quality management and medical physics locally and regionally for the IAEA.
Dr. Al-Nuaimi has extensive experience in education and in providing training as a clinical instructor for allied health BSc students, medical physics tutor for Kuwait nuclear medicine residency program and key coordinator of many conferences, workshops and training courses in the region.

Michelle Aebersold, PhD, RN, CHSE, FAAN

DR. MICHELLE AEBERSOLD is a Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Information. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She has a Bachelor’s degree in nursing, a Master of Science in Business Administration and a PhD in Nursing. She is the Assistant Editor for Clinical Simulation in Nursing, a former Board member of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, and Co-chairs a section for the 2023 Research Summit for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She is also a member of the Nursing Board of CRNA’s Research Committee and Simulation Committee. Dr. Aebersold’s leadership experience includes roles in the practice environments, including oversight of nursing intensive care units, acute care units and outpatient specialty clinics. Dr. Aebersold also developed the simulation program for the UM School of Nursing and oversaw the development of the 13,000 square foot simulation center, which opened in 2015. Dr. Aebersold has extensive experience in using a variety of simulation learning methods including Extended Realities to improve the care of patients through caregiver education and training. She is currently working on a grant-funded project from the National Cancer Institute to use simulation to improve the safe delivery of chemotherapy by nurses and pharmacists. Her other grant work includes using immersive virtual reality to improve teamwork and communication in pediatric cardiac arrest situations and Improving Pediatric Acute Care through Simulation Training. Dr. Aebersold has numerous publications, presents on a variety of topics and is often an invited speaker at international, regional and local conferences. She consults with nursing schools around improving their simulation programs, developing virtual educational assets and other projects.

Mini Pakkal MBBS, MD, MRCOG, FRCR

Assistant Professor, Fellowship Program Director,
Department of Medical Imaging
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, Canada

Mohamed Elsayed Abdelsalam, MD

Assistant Professor, Interventional Radiology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, texas, USA

Mohammad Hamadallah

Regional Director,
Science Partnership in Middle East,
Labster, USA

Mohammad Hassan Kharita, PhD

Dr. Mohammad Hassan Kharita, PhD is the Assistant Executive Director of Occupational Health and Safety Department – Medical Physics, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). He is overseeing all medical physics aspects in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine in addition to radiation safety issues at all 15 HMC hospitals.
Dr Kharita was Radiation Safety Consultant in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 2014-2015. He was director of research in the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria until 2013. He obtained PhD. Degree in Radiation Dosimetry in 1996 and M.Sc. degree in Applied Radiation Physics in 1992 from the University of Birmingham, UK.
He has vast experience with the IAEA as an expert to more than 35 missions.
He is the Vice President-elect 2022-2025 and the Secretary General 2018-2022 of the Middle Eastern Federation for Medical Physics (MEFOMP). He is the Vice president of the Qatar Medical Physics Society (QaMPS) 2018-2022.
He was the Chairman of the Website and newsletter committee in MEFOMP, 2015-2018 and one of the founding members of the (MEFOMP) in 2009 and the representative of Syria in MEFOMP 2009-2015.

Mohannad Ibrahim, MD

Clinical Professor, Radiology
Division of Neuroradiology
Michigan Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

M. Saiful Huq, PhD, FAAPM, FInstP

M. Saiful Huq, PhD is the Director of Medical Physics at the Department of Radiation Oncology at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Professor of Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Huq is responsible for the management of scientific and clinical medical physics operations of 28 cancer centers in western Pennsylvania, USA. He also provides guidance on the operations of two UPMC- owned cancer centers in Ireland and two in Italy. He served as an oral board examiner for the American Board of Radiology (ABR) for ten years, for American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP) for one year and for International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB) last year. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiological Physics, has given 213 invited presentations globally and has published 158 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Huq received his MS and PhD in Physics from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
Dr. Huq has served in many capacities at various national and international organizations. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and is a recipient of AAPM’s Farrington Daniels Award. In 2010, Dr. Huq received the Distinguished Service Award given by The American Board of Radiology; the same year he received the “Distinguished Medical Physicist for 2010” award given by the Indo American Society of Medical Physicists. In 2018, he was elected to the Presidential chain of AAPM. He served as the President of AAPM during the year 2020. Last year he served as the chair of the Board of Directors of AAPM. Dr. Huq has served on numerous AAPM Task Groups, notably TG100 (chair) and TG-51.
Dr. Huq has also served as a consultant and an expert on many International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) initiatives, developing various documents (example, author of IAEA TRS398 CoP, TRS 483 CoP which is the IAEA/AAPM CoP for small field dosimetry) which provide guidance to the worldwide radiotherapy community regarding various aspects of cancer therapy using external beam radiation

Moyed Miften, PhD, DABR, FAAPM

Dr. Miften joined the faculty of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine as a Professor and Chief Physicist in October 2008. Dr. Miften received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in 1994 from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Following graduation, he became a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University Michigan, where he was involved in research developing advanced dose calculation algorithms for 3-D conformal radiotherapy. In April 1996, Dr. Miften joined the Department of Radiation Oncology at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, as a Research Scientist. At Beaumont, Dr. Miften shared clinical responsibilities and was involved in research on intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). He then joined CMS. Inc., in St. Louis, Missouri, as a Medical Physicist where he was involved in developing software for radiation treatment planning. In November 2000, he joined the faculty at Duke University Medical School and became involved in clinical research and development of IMRT and dose-response modeling. Dr. Miften left Duke in Feb 2005, where he was an Associate Professor, to join the West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh as a Chief Physicist, with a faculty appointment as an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Drexel University College of Medicine. In Pittsburgh, he oversaw the clinical and research activities of a large group of physicists who provided service support to a network of 8 clinics in the Western Pennsylvania region and Eastern Ohio. At CU, he oversees the physics and dosimetry group. His current responsibilities involve clinical service, research, teaching and administration. His current research interests include SBRT, IGRT, IMRT, and outcome modeling. He is currently serving as a chair and a member of many scientific and education committees nationally.

Mustafa Bashir, MD

Associate Vice Chair, for Research
Associate Professor, Radiology and Medicine
Associate Professor, Gastroenterology
Director, Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Development
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA

Nadeem Parkar, MD

Dr. Nadeem Parkar is currently a Staff Radiologist in the Thoracic Section of the Imaging Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus. He is the Director of the 3D Printing and Augmented/Virtual Reality Innovation Program at the Cleveland Clinic. Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Parkar was the Chief of Thoracic and Cardiac Imaging at Saint Louis University. He served as the Vice President of the Medical Staff and was the President-Elect of the Medical staff at Saint Louis University. He trained in Cardiothoracic Imaging at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. Prior to starting a career as a Radiologist, Dr. Parkar had completed his training in Internal Medicine followed by fellowship in Critical Care and was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Department of Medicine.

Najat Mokhtar, PhD

Najat Mokhtar was appointed Deputy Director General and head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 1 January 2019. Prior to her appointment, she was Director of the Division for Asia and the Pacific in the Department of Technical Cooperation at the IAEA.
From 2012 to 2014, Ms Mokhtar was the Section Head of the Nutrition and Health related Environmental Studies, Human Health Division. From 2010 to 2012, she was the Director of Science and Technology at the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology in Morocco, where she coordinated the national strategy on Education and Research. She worked as University Professor and Research Director at the University Ibn Tofail in Morocco for more than 20 years. Ms Mokhtar was a Technical Officer at the IAEA from 2001 to2007.
Ms Mokhtar holds a PhD in Nutrition and Endocrinology from Laval University in Canada and has a doctorate in food sciences from the University of Dijon in France. She has done her postdoctoral training as a Fulbright fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the United States of America.
Throughout her professional career, she has contributed to the publication of several books and peer reviewed publications and she worked as a consultant for various organizations and national and international institutions (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, WFP, USAID, WHO, UNICEF, FAO). She was mandated by the Moroccan government as national coordinator to develop "National Nutrition Strategy in Morocco 2011-2019", including training, education and research. In March 2011, she was elected President of the Moroccan Society of Nutrition.

Ola Holmberg, PhD

Dr. Ola Holmberg is the Head of the Radiation Protection of Patients (RPOP) Unit at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria – an organization within the United Nations family. He is a medical physicist from Sweden with radiotherapy experience from Skåne University Hospital, Malmö; Sweden, St. Luke's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; and The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam. Prior to his appointment to the IAEA in 2008, he was the Chief Physicist at Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark.
He is a co-founder of the Radiation Oncology Safety Information System (ROSIS, 2001) an international voluntary safety reporting system for radiotherapy, and he has also participated as a Task Group member for the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) on prevention of accidental exposures from new external beam radiation therapy technologies, which led to the ICRP Publication 112.
Dr Holmberg has published scientific papers on radiation protection of patients in journals such as The Lancet. He has served as Course Director for ESTRO on radiotherapy treatment planning and has also lectured on prevention of accidents in radiotherapy in many different countries. He was the Scientific Secretary for the International Conference on Radiation Protection in Medicine - Setting the Scene for the Next Decade, held in Bonn, Germany, in December 2012, which led to the Bonn Call for Action – a joint position statement by the IAEA and the WHO, as well as for the International Conference on Radiation Protection in Medicine – Achieving Change in Practice, held in Vienna, Austria, in December 2017.

Oleg Belyakov, PhD

Oleg V. Belyakov is staff Radiation Biologist at the Section of Applied Radiation Biology and Radiotherapy, Division of Human Health, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna since 2013. He holds a Ph.D. in Radiation Biology from Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland and Gray Cancer Institute, London, UK. He also an Adjunct Professor in Radiation Biology at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio campus, Finland. He has been working in Radiation Research for more than 20 years. Dr. Belyakov’s main area of expertise is Radiation Biology. Specifically, he was studying Non-Targeted Effects of ionizing radiation in cell and 3D tissue models. Also, he was involved in Management of International Projects, Medical Applications of Radiation Technologies, Radiation Protection and Safety, Training and Education related to Radiation Effects. Dr. Belyakov is an IAEA observer at the UNSCEAR annual sessions and at the ICRP, Committee 1 “Radiation Effects”.

Osama Mawlawi, PhD, FAAPM, FACR

Dr. Mawlawi is a Tenured Professor of Imaging Physics and the Section Chief of Nuclear Medicine Physics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He started his Medical Physics career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York as a research assistant from 1990-1998. He later joined Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons as an Assistant Professor from 1998-2001 before coming to MDACC in 2001. Dr. Mawlawi has extensive expertise in PET imaging of biomarkers in preclinical applications and in Phase I-III clinical trials. His primary interest focuses on investigating factors affecting absolute quantification of PET/CT images. His ongoing research is aimed at developing novel techniques for PET/CT image acquisition, correction and reformation, as well as modeling the distribution of novel radiotracers. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and is the recipient of several grants from industry and professional societies. Dr. Mawlawi is also an active member of several professional societies such as the SNMMI, AAPM, IEEE, RSNA and ACR where he serves in various roles such as task group chair, board member, or review committee and is the past president of the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine (ABSNM). Dr. Mawlawi also serves on multiple institutional committees such as the IRG, CRC, RSC, and ECFS. He has won numerous awards, most recently the MD Anderson's President's Recognition for Faculty Excellence Award in 2014. Dr. Mawlawi is frequently invited as a presenter at national and international conferences. He is board certified in Nuclear Medicine Physics and instrumentation by the ABSNM and in Diagnostic Radiologic Physics by the ABR.

Paula Toroi, PhD

Paula Toroi was born in Finland in 1979. In 2004 she obtained her MSc and in 2009 her PhD degree in medical physics from university of Helsinki. In 2014 she was qualified as clinical medical physicist and in 2015 she was awarded an adjunct professor degree. She has a background from both medical physics and calibration laboratory.
Currently she works in the SSDL of the Radiation and Safety Authority of Finland (STUK) where she is responsible for ionizing radiation metrology and dosimetry. She worked for five year (2015-2020) at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a Medical Radiation Physicist – SSDL Officer. She has also worked as a clinical medical physicist in many different hospitals in Finland and abroad. She has clinical background in all the fields of medical use of radiation. In addition, she has done research mainly in the field of calibrations, diagnostic radiology dosimetry and image quality.

Prof. Pei-Jan (Paul) Lin, PhD

Education
• B.Sc, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. 1969
• M.Sc., DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. 1974
• Ph.D., University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. 1981

Post Graduate Education
• Physics and Medical Radiation Physics
• Medical Physics Training, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago Illinois 1971 - 1973

Certifications
1. Diagnostic Radiological Physicist, American Board of Radiology, 1977 1977
2. Diagnostic Imaging Physicist, American Board of Medical Physics, 1989 1989
3. Operators Permit, Nuclear Reactor, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan 06/1969

Research Expertise
1. Operation logic of cardiovascular interventional fluoroscopy equipment evaluation and acceptance testing.
2. Phantom design for image quality assessment in radiography, fluoroscopy and computed tomography.
3. Radiation dosimetry of MDCT scanners, dual source MDCT scanners. Phantom design for dosimetry and image quality evaluation.
4. Radiation dosimetry for patients undergoing radiological imaging procedures.

Teaching Expertise
1. Image quality assessment under clinical conditions in association with the radiation dosimetry.
2. Radiation Physics
3. Medical Imaging
4. Radiation Protection for the Staff and Patients
5. Image Quality Evaluation and Quality Assurance

Awards & Honors
• Distingushed Alumni of DePaul University (1987).

Professional Affiliations
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine
• American College of Radiology
• Physics Consultant, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography an Interventions.

Peter Mildenberger, MD, PhD

Vice-Chair, Department of Radiology,
University Medical Center Mainz,
Germany

Peter Knoll, PhD

Dr. Peter Knoll studied Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria. He did his Master studies in Solid State Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. He continued his studies in Vienna with a PhD in Computational Physics on Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography (SPECT) reconstruction algorithms. Additionally, he did a post-doctoral course at the Medical University of Vienna which he finished 1998. In 2006 he finished his Habilitation (“venia docendi”) at the Medical University of Vienna. He was teaching scientific software development at the University of Vienna for several years. His research interests are reconstruction algorithms for SPECT and PET, medical software development and radionuclide therapy. He participated in the large-scale European research project SaveMe, which developed a novel modular nanosystem platform for cancer diagnosis and treatment. After working more than 25 years in a clinical nuclear medicine department in Vienna Peter Knoll joined recently the Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics Section at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to support the member states in Medical Physics (Nuclear Medicine) He authored/co-authored more than peer-reviewed 70 research papers.

Philipp Feodorovici, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery
University Hospital Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Pierre Montay-Gruel, PhD

Radiobiology Team Leader, Radiation Oncology
Iridium Kankernetwerk, GZA Hospital
University of Antwerp
Belgium

Prashanth Ravi, PhD

Assistant Professor, Radiology
3D Printing Laboratory, MSB Ste
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Radia Tamarat, PhD

Dr. Tamarat is a scientific expert in the field of stem cell therapy for the medical management of accidental radiation exposure. She has initiated preclinical studies in order to assess the therapeutic potential of stem cell therapy for overexposed patient. Recently, her work focuses on the identification of biomarkers of radiation exposure and in case of complication of radiotherapy for diagnosis and prognosis of complication risk. She acquired a substantial basic and translational experience in stem cell therapy through research activities aiming to develop new approach for radiation accident. As an example, in an ongoing clinical trial, more than 10 patients received stem cell therapy for the treatment of radiological burn in accidental exposure and 4 patients for complication of radiotherapy. Moreover, she contributes to different working groups in numerous European projects (DOREMi, OPERRA and CONCERT) and developing collaboration with North and South American as well as Asia. She also initiated collaboration with Pr. Chandan Guha from Albert Einstein Medical College (New York, USA) notably through a pilot project financed by the NIH (National Institute of Health) since 2015. She is also involved in the IAEA & WHO related activities including expertise within different international missions, participation to the training courses as well as consultancy or advisory mission for national and international authorities in case of medical management of radiological accidents.

Raymond Mak, MD, DABR

Raymond Mak MD, is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, Director of Clinical Innovation and Director of Patient Safety and Quality at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and radiation oncology lead of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program at Mass General Brigham.
Dr. Mak’s research interests focus on developing imaging biomarkers to predict response to therapy and for risk stratification in lung cancer patients and applying artificial intelligence techniques to automate radiation therapy planning. He has led crowd innovation and clinical studies to implement artificial intelligence techniques in the clinic. Dr. Mak’s clinical focus includes treatment of thoracic malignancies, stereotactic body radiation therapy and novel image-guided radiation therapy techniques. He led the implementation of MR-guided radiation therapy program at BWH/DFCI in 2019.

Reza Vali, MD, CBNC

Dr. Reza Vali has been working as Staff Radiologist in the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, since October 2014. Dr. Vali received his medical degree from Ahwaz Medical University in 1995, and completed his Nuclear Medicine residency program at Tehran Medical University in Iran in 2000. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship at the Vincent Hospital in Austria in PET/CT oncology in 2007/2008. Dr. Vali then completed his fellowship in Paediatric Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) from January 2012 to October 2014. He most recently completed a two-year Master's degree in Translational Research Program (M.Sc. in TRP) in 2018.
Dr. Vali is a member of Radiological Society of North America, Canadian Society of Nuclear Medicine, Society of Nuclear Medicine, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and European Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Ricky Sharma, MD, PhD

Vice President, Clinical Affairs
Varian Medical Systems,
Palo Alto, California, USA

Robert Paul Guillerman, MD

Dr. R. Paul Guillerman is a Professor of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatric Radiology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. His medical training included a radiology residency at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and a pediatric radiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is board-certified in Diagnostic Radiology by the American Board of Radiology with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Pediatric Radiology.
His clinical and research interests include pediatric chest, musculoskeletal, and tumor imaging, radiation risk assessment and dose optimization, clinical trial management and evidence-based clinical practice guideline development. He has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed medical journal publications and given over 100 invited lectures at national and international meetings. He is a member of the Image Gently Steering Committee, Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Musculoskeletal Committee, American College of Radiology Committee on Education – Pediatrics, and Children's Interstitial Lung Disease (ChILD) Working Group. He serves on the Board of Directors for the SPR Research & Education Foundation and as Co-Director of the Center for Diagnostic Imaging of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutic Development Network.

Rodney Hicks, MD

Professor Rod Hicks is a Professor of Medicine and Radiology at the University of Melbourne. He pioneered the use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in the assessment of cancer, and has introduced a number of novel PET tracers. When Professor Hicks joined Peter Mac in 1996, the PET program he founded was one of the first in the world to have a clinical focus. He oversaw the installation of the third PET scanner to arrive in Australia, and it was the first solely dedicated to cancer. In 2019 it has passed the milestone of 100,000 PET scans. Professor Hicks holds numerous national and international research grants and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cancer Imaging, as well as serving on eight other editorial boards including Endocrine-Related Cancer. He has over 500 peer-reviewed publications. A major focus of his team’s clinical research has been to assess the impact of PET on patient management and prognostic stratification. Professor Hicks is also actively involved in radionuclide therapy with a major focus on neuroendocrine tumours, and the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for this group of diseases. In 2015, Professor Hicks was inducted as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2018, his Centre was the first outside of Europe to be recognised as a Centre of Excellence in the European Neuroendocrine Tumour Society Network. Professor Hicks received the International Cancer Imaging Society’s top honour - The ICIS Gold Medal – in 2019 in recognition of his exceptional contribution to oncological imaging and to international education. His current work, supported with a Medical Research Future Fund Grant, includes developing a new and exciting theranostic agent that will open radionuclide therapy to a group of diseases that have terrible outcomes and limited treatment options currently.

Sadhna Verma MD, FSAR

Adjunct Professor-Affiliate
Radiology, College of Medicine
Director, Prostate Imaging Program, Midwest Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Slobodan Devic, PhD, FCCPM

Dr. Devic obtained his M.Sc. degree in non-ideal plasma physics and his Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics in 1997 at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He moved to the USA in 1998 where he worked as a Research Associate in Radiation Oncology Physics at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis, Missouri.
Subsequently, he moved in 2000 to the Montreal General Hospital and McGill University where he was enrolled into the Medical Physics Residency program.
Upon finishing his residency in 2002 he joined the Medical Physics Unit at the McGill University and, in 2008, he moved to his current position at the SMBD Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He is a Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine and his major research interests are radiochromic film dosimetry and its applications, image guided brachytherapy with particular interest in pre-operative endorectal brachytherapy, and the incorporation of the functional imaging information into radiotherapy treatment planning process. Dr. Devic is also teaching Physics in Nuclear Medicine course at the McGill University and as of 2009 he became a member of the Editorial board of the Medical Physics journal.

Suzan "Suzie" Kardong-Edgren PhD. RN, ANEF, CHSE, FSSH, FAAN

Suzan (Suzie) Kardong-Edgren PhD, RN, ANEF, CHSE, FSSH, FAAN is an internationally known speaker, consultant, and educational researcher with over 120 publications. Dr. Edgren was a consultant on the landmark National Council of Nursing National Simulation Study that determined that up to 50% of traditional clinical could be replaced with high quality simulation and will reprise that role again in the National Council Simulation Study 2.0.
Dr. Edgren served as the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Simulation in Nursing for 10 years; and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of 2 new interactive online review guides for those seeking certification in the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She was awarded the National League for Nursing Debby Spunt Lectureship and the Michael Gordon Lectureship in Simulation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Edgren served as chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and the Vice President of Research for the INACSL. She is a Fellow in the Society of Simulation in Healthcare, the Academy of Nursing Education Fellows, and the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Edgren is the President-elect of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation in Nursing and an Associate Professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston.

Swati Devendra
Deshmukh, MD

Assistant Professor, Radiology
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Radiology Department
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Timothy Szczykutowicz, PhD, DABR

Dr. Szczykutowicz “Stick” is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin. He specializes in all things CT from reconstruction algorithms to technologist workflow. Protocols developed by his team have been shipped to 3,500 sites around the globe. He is currently on editorial boards at the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Journal of Thoracic Imaging, and Radiographics. Dr. Szczykutowicz is the author of 40 papers, 2 book chapters, the book “The CT Handbook: Optimizing protocols for today’s feature-rich scanners”, 3 patents, and is a consultant to 5 companies.

Todd Pawlicki, PhD, FAAPM, FASTRO

Dr. Todd Pawlicki is a Professor and Vice-Chair for Medical Physics. He is also the Director of the Division of Medical Physics overseeing all the clinical and research Medical Physicists in the Department. An internationally-recognized academic Medical Physicist with a focus on quality and safety. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and is a former Secretary of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). He has served on numerous ASTRO and AAPM committees and working groups (many as Chair), including the ASTRO Clinical Affairs and Quality Committee, the ASTRO Multi-disciplinary Quality Assurance Sub-Committee, AAPM Task Group 218, Task Group 288, Task Group 302, Task Group 332 and is the Vice-Chair of the Medical Physics 3.0 Initiative. In recognition of his long-time contributions, he has been named a Fellow by both organizations (FAAPM 2012 and FASTRO 2016).
An author of over 120 journal articles, reviews and book chapters, Dr. Pawlicki is the Editor of the textbook Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy, the first international textbook focused on quality/safety in the field of radiation oncology, and has edited multiple other textbooks. He is a previous member of multiple journal Editorial Boards and the past Executive Physics Editor for the journal Practical Radiation Oncology. He is the Co-Director of the Systems Engineering & Design (SED) Program within the Center for Precision Radiation Medicine (CPRM) which is focused on re-designing Radiation Oncology, particularly QA approaches and the role of the Medical Physicist.
He serves on numerous Department Committees including the Faculty Merits & Promotions Committee, the Committee on Committees, the Executive Finance Committee, the Faculty Climate & Development Committee, and the RMAS Council, an Advisory Board to the Chair comprised of senior Department Leaders. He has served or is serving on multiple committees within UC San Diego including Chair Search committees, Radiation Safety Committee, the UC San Diego School of Medicine Core Curriculum Committee, and the University Committee on Academic Personnel. He is also involved in resident education and is the Director of the Leadership & Professionalism Course for the Medical and Physics Residents.

Virginia Tsapaki, PhD

Medical Physicist (Diagnostic Radiology), Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics Section, Division of Human Health, Department of Nuclear Applications.
Medical Physicist specialised in Radiology at the DMRP Section, Division of Human Health, IAEA since August 2019. Previously, an IAEA expert sent in several missions, analysing data and publishing scientific papers from various IAEA surveys. Clinical experience for approximately 30 years with more than 150 publications in national/international journals/conference proceedings and more than 200 presentations/posters in national/international conferences. Participated in multiple European projects such as the Clinical Diagnostic Reference Levels, ENEN+ project, Basic Safety Standards Transposition project, ENETRAP III, Paediatric Diagnostic Reference Levels, EUTEMPE-RX, EMAN, SENTINEL, DIMOND II/III research projects. Chair/member of committees in international organizations (AAPM, IOMP, EFOMP, ESR, EURAMED). Chair of Organizing committee of 2 European conferences (2016, 2018).

Walter Block, PhD

Vice Chair, for Mentorship, Diversity and Strategic Collaborations
Professor, MRI Imaging
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health,
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Zhanat Carr, PhD

Dr. Carr is the focal point for Radiation Emergency Preparedness and Response at the WHO in Geneva. She received her MD degree at the State Medical Institute in Semipalatinsk, Republic of Kazakhstan (1989); PhD degree in Radiation Oncology from Medical Radiology Research Center in Obninsk, Russia (1993) and MSc degree in Radiation Biology from St. Bartholomew's College, Royal London School of Medicine & Dentistry University of London, UK (1999). She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Radiation Epidemiology at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2000-2002, prior to her joining WHO’s Radiation Health Program in July 2002. At the WHO, she coordinates two global expert networks – Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network (REMPAN) and BioDoseNet. Her tasks are related to capacity building, development of technical guidelines, strengthening preparedness through training and exercise, risk communication and advocacy, and inter-agency and international cooperation. Dr. Carr’s expertise includes public health and medical preparedness and response to radiation emergencies, radiopathology, radiation biology, radiation epidemiology; radiation oncology; radiation protection, international health and policy development as pertains to radiation health, capacity building and sustainable development, project management and program evaluation.

Amr ElSaadany, MD

Amr Elsaadany graduated from Kasr Alaini University, Cairo, Egypt in 1994 from where he also received his master degree of radiology from in 2000. Dr. Elsaadany is a Fellow of Radiology from the Royal College of Clinical Radiologists London – UK (FRCR) in 2006 and received his European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) in 2014. Currently, he is working as a Consultant Interventional Radiology Associate at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His main interest is in interventional oncology.

Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, FAAPM, FACR, FACMP, FSCCT, FIOMP

Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD, is the Professor of Radiology and Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. He is also the Medical Physicist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
Dr Mahesh is board certified from the American Board of Radiology (ABR) in diagnostic radiological physics and is a member of the Radiation Control Advisory Board (RCAB) for the State of Maryland. His research interests are in medical imaging, particularly in areas of computed tomography (CT), interventional fluoroscopy and digital mammography. In addition, he has broad experience in medical imaging physics and radiation safety. Dr Mahesh strongly strives to enhance radiation risk communications with patients, public and the media.
Dr Mahesh is currently Associate Editor for the Journal of American College of Radiology and board member for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the American College of Radiology (ACR). He served as the 2nd Vice-President of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in 2011. He serves as subject-matter-expert (SME) to the United Nations-International Atomic Energy Agency (UN-IAEA). He also serves as subject-matter-expert (SME) to the United Nations-International Atomic Energy Agency (UN-IAEA) and is the national contact person for the United States for the UNSCEAR.
Dr Mahesh is the author of the textbook titled ‘MDCT Physics: The Basics – Technology, Image Quality and Radiation Dose’
Dr Mahesh is a fellow of the AAPM (2007), ACR (2009), American College of Medical Physics (2011), Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) (2011) and International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) (2019).
Dr Mahesh is an elected council member of the National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and served as Co-Chair of the NCRP report 184 (Medical Radiation Exposure of Patients in the United States) in 2019.
Dr Mahesh was elected to the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Committee (Radiological Protection in Medicine) and will start his term from July 2021.

Mónica García, PhD

Mónica García Sevilla received her B.S. in Audiovisual Systems Engineering in 2014 from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain, and her M.Sc. in Artificial Vision in 2016 from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid (URJC), Spain. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Science and Technology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
In 2019 she did an internship at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA) in the Department of Computer Science, Malone’s Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Her research interests are computer-assisted surgery, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality, and surgical skills assessment. She is currently working as a researcher at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Nikos Makris, MD, PhD

Dr. Nikos Makris has originally studied Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Siena, Italy and Behavioral Neurosciences at the Boston University Medical School in Boston, MA, USA. Dr. Makris is nationally and internationally known as a neuroanatomist and is a sought-after scientist for his expertise in human neuroanatomy and the development of imaging methods that allow the translation of neuroanatomical knowledge into Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery. Dr. Makris has achieved significant discoveries in the field of anatomy of the human brain and in neuroimaging. He also has a leadership role in teaching and mentoring and has considerable administrative responsibilities. He is also a member on journal editorial boards, with over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Makris was recently named by Thompson Reuters to the 2014 List of The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, an international list of scientists who published the greatest number of the top 1% of cited articles for their field, in one of 21 scientific fields during the decade of 2002-2012.

Anne Weaver

Anne Herx-Weaver is a doctoral student in Health Professions Education at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Her research interests include combining simulation and inter-professional education and ethics. Herx-Weaver is a registered nurse, certified as a critical care registered nurse in pediatrics as well as a healthcare simulation educator. She earned her BSN from Creighton University and her MSN from Worcester State University. Currently Herx-Weaver is the Director of the Nursing Simulation Laboratory at Fitchburg State University and a Simulation Educator at UMass Chan Medical School and a bedside nurse in the Pediatric ICU at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

Ehsan Samei, PhD

Dr. Ehsan Samei, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE, FIOMP, FACR is a Persian-American medical physicist. He is a tenured Professor of Radiology, Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, where he also serves as the Chief Imaging Physicist for Duke University Health System, the director of the Carl E Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, and the director of Center for Virtual Imaging Trials. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology, recognized as a Distinguished Investigator by the Academy of Radiology Research, and awarded Fellow by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, International Organization of Medical Physics, and American College of Radiology. He was a founder or co-founder of the Duke Medical Physics Program, the Duke Imaging Physics Residency Program, the Duke Clinical Imaging Physics Group, the Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, and the Society of Directors of Academic Medical Physics Programs (SDAMPP). He has held senior leadership positions in the AAPM, SPIE, SDAMPP, and RSNA.
Dr. Samei’s expertise include x-ray imaging, theoretical imaging models, simulation methods, and experimental techniques in medical image formation, analysis, assessment, and perception. His current research includes methods to develop image quality and safety metrics that are clinically relevant and that can be used to design and utilize advanced imaging techniques towards optimum interpretive and quantitative performance. His research aims to bridge the gap between scientific scholarship and clinical practice, in the meaningful realization of translational research, and in clinical processes that are informed by scientific evidence. Those include advanced imaging performance characterization, procedural optimization, and radiomics in retrospective clinical dose and quality analytics. His most recent research interests have been virtual clinical trial across a broad spectrum of oncologic, pulmonary, cardiac, and vascular diseases, and developing methodological advances that provide smart fusions of conventional, principle-informed and newer AI-based, data-informed approaches to scientific inquiry.
Dr. Samei has mentored over 100 trainees (graduate and postgraduate). He has over 1000 scientific publications including 300+ referred journal articles and 4 books. His laboratory of over 20 researchers has been supported continuously over years by 41 extramural grants, culminating in a NIH Program Project grant in 2021 to establish the national Center for Virtual Imaging Trials (CVIT), joining a small number of prominent Biomedical Technology Research Centers across the nation.

Alan Guo

Alan Guo recently graduated from a CAMPEP accredited medical physics' masters program at Université de Montréal. He currently work as a research assistant and soon to be a medical physics resident at CHUM.

Ibrahim Elziq, PhD

WHO Representative, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Almost 30 years of experience in the field of health development, policy, planning and management in many countries. Including UK, Palestine, Egypt, Bulgaria, and Lebanon, Philippines, Pakistan, Denmark and the Gulf countries. Worked very closely with senior government officials in different countries guiding, supporting and facilitation policy development and implementation through different development and health reform programmers , also worked with major donors such as the EU, DFID, and UN.Prior to this, worked as UNICEF regional representative in the Gulf countries, UNICEF Chief of Immunization in Denmark, Chief Health and Nutrition at UNICEF Pakistan, senior Health Advisor to the European Union, Deputy Director at Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard university, Senior Health Advisor to DFID. In addition to overseas experience, worked as a clinician and a medical manager in several London teaching hospitals

Bourhis Jean, MD, PhD

rof Jean Bourhis graduated in Paris as a Medical Doctor (MD) and is board certified in Radiation Oncology.
From 2002 to 2012 he has been chairman of the Radiation Oncology Department at the Institute Gustave Roussy (Villejuif, France), which is one the most prominent Cancer Center in Europe.
His clinical activity has been focused on Head and Neck Oncology and he has been principal investigator of a dozen of clinical trials in this field, mainly multicentre randomised trials. He coordinated several large-scale international collaborative meta-analyses in head and neck oncology, the contributions of which have been recognised worldwide. He is also co-founder and current chairman of the GORTEC cooperative group, one of the most active cooperative Group world wide for conducting clinical trials in head and neck oncology.
Professor Bourhis has also a major interest in Laboratory and Translational Research. He obtained a PhD in Molecular Oncology at the University of Paris. For about 20 years in parallel with his clinical activities he has been Director of a laboratory dedicated to Experimental and Translational Research in Radiation Oncology. Recent developments in his laboratory include FLASH therapy, a new and promising form of radiation therapy.
He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
In 2012, J. Bourhis moved to Lausanne University Hospital where he is currently Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology Department.
Pr Bourhis is also the past President of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) and is the current President of the Swiss Radiation Oncology Society.