Category: Gold Medallists

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.

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".

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.

Luis Martí-Bonmatí is Director of the Medical Imaging Department and Chairman of Radiology at La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital in Valencia, Spain. He is also the founder and director of the Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI2³⁰) at La Fe Health Research Institute, which hosts both advanced clinical and experimental radiology facilities.

Professor Laura Oleaga received her medical degree from the School of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She completed her training in radiology at the Hospital Donostia in San Sebastian and then trained as a Research Fellow in magnetic resonance imaging at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Radiology. She then went on to serve as a specialist in magnetic resonance imaging at the Hospital of Basurto, Bilbao.

Bernd Hamm is Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the three merged Departments of Radiology of the Charité (Campus Mitte, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, and Campus Benjamin Franklin) and Head of CharitéCentrum 6, which incorporates diagnostic and interventional radiology, neuroradiology, paediatric radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical physics.

Professor Hamm studied at Freie Universität Berlin and obtained his Medical Doctor degree (magna cum laude) in 1982. Following his internship and residency at this same institution, he became a German board-certified diagnostic radiologist in...

In recognition of her outstanding, internationally-recognised achievements and leadership in the areas of oncology and breast imaging, Professor Fiona Gilbert of Cambridge, United Kingdom, will receive the ESR Gold Medal at ECR 2021.

Professor Gilbert is Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Cambridge.

Graduating at the University of Glasgow, followed by clinical training in Aberdeen, she trained in Radiology at the University of Aberdeen and was appointed Chair of Radiology in Aberdeen in 1996. She built...

In recognition of his outstanding, internationally-recognised achievements and leadership in the areas of neuroradiology and artificial intelligence, Professor Paul Maria Parizel of Perth, Western Australia, will receive the ESR Gold Medal at ECR 2021.

Professor Parizel is the inaugural David Hartley Chair of Radiology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) and the Director of the Western Australian National Imaging Facility (NIF) node.

Graduating from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, he trained in radiology at...

In recognition of his outstanding, internationally-recognised achievements and leadership in the fields of radiodiagnostics and breast imaging, Professor Francesco Sardanelli of San Donato Milanese, Italy, will receive the ESR Gold Medal at ECR 2021.

In recognition of her amazing accomplishments and leading role in hybrid, molecular and translational imaging, Professor Katrine Riklund from Umeå, Sweden, will receive the ESR Gold Medal at ECR 2020.