Category: Plenary and Honorary Lecturers

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...

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...

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...

René Bernards is Professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. His laboratory uses functional genomic approaches to find vulnerabilities of cancers that can be exploited therapeutically. His laboratory identified the now FDA-approved combination of a BRAF inhibitor and an EGFR inhibitor as effective for treating BRAF mutant colon cancer.

Professor Bernards also developed the first clinically used gene expression test for early breast cancer prognosis, MammaPrint, which has helped over 150,000 women make the right treatment...

Dr Schwan was born in 1967 and is an Austrian citizen. After obtaining a degree in economics and a doctorate in law, he began his career in 1993 at Roche Basel as a finance officer.

Following various management postings to Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland, Dr Schwan moved to Singapore as regional head of the Roche Diagnostics business for Asia-Pacific in 2004.

In 2006, Dr Schwan became CEO of Roche Diagnostics, the Roche Group’s global diagnostics business. In March 2008, he...

In recognition of his outstanding, internationally-recognised achievements and leadership in the fields of molecular imaging and nuclear medicine, Dr Sanjiv Sam Gambhir of Stanford, United States, will posthumously receive ESR Honorary Membership at ECR 2021.

It is with our sincere condolences that we mourn the loss of a remarkable radiologist, researcher, and educator.

In recognition of her outstanding, internationally-recognised achievements and leadership in the fields of paediatric and oncological radiology, Professor Pek-Lan Khong of Hong Kong, China,will receive ESR Honorary Membership at ECR 2021.

In recognition of his outstanding, internationally-recognised achievements and leadership in the fields of radiology,government relations, and quality and safety, Professor James P. Borgstede of Colorado Springs, United States,will receive ESR Honorary Membership at ECR 2021.

Professor Marie-Pierre Revel from Paris, France, has presented the Plenary Lecture entitled 'COVID-19: lessons and questions from a pandemic' at ECR 2020.

Professor Valérie Vilgrain from Clichy, France, has presented the Plenary Lecture entitled 'Liver resilience' at ECR 2020.

Dr. Valérie Vilgrain is Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University Beaujon Hospital and Professor of Radiology at the University of Paris, France. Her major research interests are diagnostic and interventional imaging of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts with a special interest in multidetector CT and MR imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound, functional imaging (CT...