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.