Honorary Membership

Professor Beatriz González-Ulloa is a certified breast imaging radiologist who has served on numerous Mexican and international committees. From 2020 to 2022, she was the President of Interamerican College of Radiology. Since 2017, she has served as the Vicepresident of the Iberoamerican Society of Breast Imaging. In 1987, she was given the title of Professor and had, since then, supervised more than 350 students under residence and fellowship programmes. Professor González-Ulloa has published 54 posters, 32 free papers and has given numerous lectures at national and international courses.

She was awarded the Radiological Merit Award in 2016 by the College of Radiology and Imaging of Jalisco and the Radiological Merit Award in 2020 by the Mexican Federation of Radiology and Imaging. Professor González-Ulloa is the Honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Medical Radiology (SERAM) and has recently received recognition for over 20 years as a synodal in the Mexican Board of Radiology.

Honorary Member

James Griffith read medicine at University College, Cork (UCC), Ireland, graduating in 1983. After general medical training in the UK and obtaining MRCP UK, and later FRCP (Edin), he joined the radiology training scheme of the West Midlands Radiology Rotation. During this Fellowship training, Drs Mark Davis and Victor Cassar-Pullicino kindled his interest in musculoskeletal radiology.

After obtaining the FRCR in 1993, he moved to Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in June 1995. He is currently a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Imaging and Intervention Radiology, CUHK.

Over the past 25 years, he has conducted over fifty imaging and ultrasound workshops, single-handedly run one-day imaging courses, contributed to many lecture series, mainly around the Asian region, and co-edited five books. He is chief editor of the twice BMA highly commended 998-page "Diagnostic Ultrasound: Musculoskeletal" educational textbook.

He is a Past President of Quantitative Musculoskeletal Imaging (QMSKI), the immediate Past Chairman of the International Skeletal Society (ISS) Global Outreach Program, the ISS Global Health Initiative Program, and the immediate past President of the Asian Musculoskeletal Society (AMS).

He is, and has been, on various ISS committees and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Skeletal Radiology, Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery (QIMS), and the Journal of Orthopedic Translation (JOT). He has been a member of the Health and Medical Fund (HMRF) Grant Review Board Hong Kong since 2014. 

In addition to guest editing several issues of Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology, including the 'Top Ten Tips' and 'How to Report' musculoskeletal studies, he has published 347 peer-reviewed papers on different aspects of musculoskeletal imaging, 210 educational book chapters, and delivered over 1000 invited lectures.

He is particularly proud of his pioneering work on addressing bone marrow changes in osteoporosis, quantifying glenoid bone loss, identifying rib fractures on ultrasound, assessment of carpal tunnel syndrome on ultrasound, traction imaging of joints, classification of talar dome osteochondral lesions, accuracy of ultrasound for classifying soft tissue masses, population reference ranges for developmental spinal canal size, and, more recently, positional MRI of the normal and injured knee. His current main research interests are the imaging of tibiofemoral joint stability, perfusion imaging of bone, and quantifying inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis.

Other than spending time with his family and friends, his outside-of-work interests include endurance hiking, surf skiing, golf, and collecting archaic Hongshan jade.

Honorary Member

Bruce G. Haffty, M.D., FACR, FASTRO, FASCO is associate Vice Chancellor for Cancer Programs at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Chairman and System Director of Radiation Oncology at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. His medical school, internship and residency training was at Yale School of Medicine. He spent the majority of his academic career at Yale, where he was Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, residency program director from 1992 through 2004, Vice Chairman and Clinical Director from 2002-2005. He moved to Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in 2005.

Dr. Haffty has a long and successful record in clinical and translational research in radiation oncology. He has focused his efforts on molecular/genetic factors as they relate to radiation resistance and outcomes in patients undergoing radiation. Dr. Haffty is also a leader in national clinical trials. He has co-authored a number of national clinical trial papers in high-impact journals. He is currently co-investigator on several national clinical trials through the NRG and Alliance cooperative groups. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters, and numerous editorials and letters. He is consistently listed as one of the country’s leading physicians and best doctors through national registries.

In addition to a busy clinical practice, Dr. Haffty has served on numerous national committees related to research and education in breast cancer and radiation oncology. He is a Past President of the American Radium Society, past Chairman of the Residency Review Committee in Radiation Oncology, past President of the American Board of Radiology, and past President and Past Chairman of the Board of ASTRO. He is the 2020 recipient of ASTRO’s Gold Medal. He currently serves as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and is currently President of RSNA.

Gold Medallist

Dr Sue Barter is a radiology consultant with an international reputation in breast imaging, gynaecological imaging and clinical audit and governance.

She received her medical degree from London University with honours in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and completed her radiology training in London.

She has been Clinical Director at the Department of Radiology at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Clinical Director of Breast Screening at the Beds and Herts Breast Screening service, and was Director of Breast Screening at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, delivering outstanding results in the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme, with the unit having among the highest cancer detection rates in the UK.

Her commitment to excellence was evidenced by her election as Medical Director of Professional Practice, Royal College of Radiologists, in 2012. In this role, she managed an extensive portfolio of work, including workforce planning, performance and service review, with a key role in developing standards, guidance and audit.

She previously served as Chair of the RCR Clinical Radiology Audit Committee from 2006 to 2011, and conceived and led the development of AuditLive in 2008, a web-based audit tool for the Royal College of Radiologists which facilitates audit in radiology departments.

She developed and led national audits in the UK. The results of three of these were published in 2013 in peer-reviewed radiology journals. She has been invited to lecture on audit at national and international scientific meetings

She was the first recipient of the Royal College of Radiologists Exceptional Contribution Award in 2017 in recognition of the numerous roles she fulfilled within the RCR and nationally. 

She has been a major contributor to postgraduate education, having served as a member of the European Board of Radiology, establishing and delivering the European Diploma in Radiology examination from 2010 to 2015. She has been Chair of the e-Learning subcommittee of the ESR since 2017, developing the highly regarded ESR e-learning platform Education on Demand.

Previous leadership roles for the ESR include Chair of the Self-Assessment Committee, 2008-2015, and member of the Programme Planning Committee for ECR 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

She was module editor and co-author, Radiology Integrated Training Initiative (RITI) 2007-12, delivering teaching episodes for the breast imaging section of the e-learning component of this award-winning initiative.

She has been past Secretary of the RCR Breast Group and a past member of Executive of the European Society of Breast Imaging, both key posts to raise standards of breast imaging throughout the UK and Europe.

Dr Barter has written or co-authored over 35 peer-reviewed papers, co-authored and edited one major book on breast imaging and written or co-authored sections or chapters in 8 books.

She has given over 60 invited lectures and was honoured to be invited to deliver the Image Interpretation Quiz at ECR 2021.

She has been a source of inspiration for women in radiology through her active leadership role, giving a talk on this at ECR 2022.

Despite an outstanding career, Dr Barter considers her greatest achievement to be her three grown-up children, of whom she is immensely proud.

Gold Medallist

Christoph D. Becker accomplished his undergraduate medical studies and his postgraduate training in radiology at the University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland. Following an elective year in visceral surgery, he completed a two-year fellowship in abdominal interventional radiology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. After returning to Berne, he joined the radiology staff at the University Hospital in Berne and earned his academic degree as Privat-docent.

In 1994 he was appointed head of the abdominal radiology section of the University Hospital of Geneva, where he became associate professor and vice-chair of radiology in 2000. During these years, he introduced and developed novel interventional techniques, e.g., percutaneous biliary interventions, percutaneous and intravascular ablation of liver tumours and percutaneous intraportal transplantation of pancreatic islet cells as innovative noninvasive imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance cholangiography.

In 2004 he became the head of the clinical radiology department. Under his leadership, a modern, fully digital academic department was developed, including creating radiologic subspecialty units in all clinical areas with strong multidisciplinary activity. As a full professor and academic teacher, he was responsible for developing his university's pre- and postgraduate training programmes in radiology. He was appointed as chair of the hospital department of imaging and medical information sciences and director of the university department of radiology.

On a national level, he served on the Swiss Society of Radiology board in many functions and positions, including its presidency. He was awarded honorary membership and is a recipient of the H.R. Schinz Medal, the highest distinction of the Swiss Society of Radiology. Today, he serves society with medicolegal advice. The Swiss Ministry of Health appointed him to the federal commission for radiation protection.

On an international level, he has been a member of the Executive Council and several committees of the European Society of Radiology (ESR). He has served on the executive board of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) and as president of the ESGAR 2004 meeting in Geneva. He has been nominated Honorary Fellow of ESGAR. As a fellow of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Society of Europe (CIRSE), he obtained the European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) and contributed to several committees, chairing the local organising committee of CIRSE 2001 in Lucerne. He has also organised several international postgraduate courses, including those of ESGAR, CIRSE, ECR, or the European School of Radiology and has been nominated as a corresponding member of the Collège des Enseignants en Radiologie de France (CERF).

As primary scientific investigator he has led multiple research projects on diagnostic and interventional radiology funded by grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation or by the European Union. His academic record includes over 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 300 invited lectures. He has served on the editorial and review boards of several scientific journals in the field of radiology and has twice received the editor's recognition award by the journal "Radiology".

Gold Medallist

Professor Lorenzo E. Derchi was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1949. He married and got three children, from which he has three granddaughters. Professor Derchi graduated in medicine in his hometown in 1975. In 1979 he was certified in radiology and was promoted to Professor in 1994. The same year, he was given the chair one of the radiology units in the hospital "San Martino".

Professor Derchi acted as Chair of the Department of Radiology of the hospital from January 2004 to September 2011. Afterwards, he chaired the Department of Emergency Radiology. He retired in October 2020 and became an Emeritus Professor of Radiology at the University of Genoa.

Professor Derchi has been a member of several committees throughout his career and has been allowed to preside over some of these committees and their societies. For example, he has been the President of the Italian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB) from 1995 to 1997 and the Ultrasound Section of the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM) from 2010 to 2014. He has been a Board Member of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) for eight years and has been the President of this society from 2004 to 2006. Professor Derchi acted as the President of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) from March 2018 to March 2019 and remained a Member of the ESR's Board of Directors for several years.

He is an Honorary Member of the National Radiological Societies of Algeria, France, Iran, Israel, Egypt, Romania, Turkey, China, Japan, the Radiological Society of North America, and the Romanian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. Professor Derchi's extensive list of scientific contributions to radiology includes, among many others, 254 papers and numerous chapters published in Italian and international textbooks. Most of his publications deal with diagnostic imaging using ultrasound and Doppler techniques and topics about the genitourinary system, with particular attention to renal and testicular diseases.

Plenary Lecturer

Dr Sarah Sheard is a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT), London, UK, where she is Head of Thoracic Imaging. She graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2006, completing her foundation training at Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospitals, London. She subsequently joined the radiology programme at St George's Hospital, London, undertaking additional subspecialty training in cardiothoracic imaging at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She was appointed consultant at ICHNT in 2017.

She has numerous publications in the area of thoracic radiology. She has more recently brought her passion for environmental issues to the radiology department, working to examine the role of radiology in the emerging field of sustainable healthcare. At ICNHT, she chairs a cross-disciplinary Imaging Environmental Sustainability Group and sits on the hospital trust Green Advisory Committee. Working with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London, she has developed an internship for their master's degree programme, bringing climate science expertise into the hospital setting for collaborative, in-depth research into the environmental impact of medical imaging. She is also a lead for the Imaging Network at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

Plenary Lecturer

Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide is the Director of Ireland's National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP). The NCCP is responsible for implementing government policy on cancer services nationally. Working with health service providers, the NCCP takes a programmatic approach to the prevention of cancer, treatment of cancer, and the improvement of survival and quality of life for those who develop cancer, by converting the knowledge gained through research, surveillance and outcome evaluation into strategies and actions. Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide is a Consultant Radiologist at St. Vincent's University Hospital and a Clinical Professor of Radiology at University College Dublin.

Formerly, Risteárd was the Medical Director of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group and Clinical Director of a regional cancer network (Ireland East Hospital Group). He is a medical graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He completed his radiology residency at St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin and subsequently undertook a Fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and Intervention at the University of California, San Diego. He is a Fellow and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Radiologists, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (UK).

Plenary Lecturer

Raym Geis MD is a Senior Scientist at the ACR Data Science Institute, Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology at National Jewish Health, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His current focus is to help understand how to use production-grade data science, systems engineering, and DevOps to improve radiology for patients, healthcare institutions, and radiologists alike.

He is a founding member of the ACR Data Science Institute Advisory Group, co-originator of the RSNA/SIIM National Imaging Informatics Curriculum and Course (NIIC), a past Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), member of the Canadian Association of Radiologists’ Artificial Intelligence Working Group, and honorary member of EuSoMII.

Dr. Geis received his MD and did residencies in Family Medicine and Radiology, and research and clinical fellowship, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has engineering degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford. He has been board certified in radiology, neuroradiology, and family practice.