Speakers
RANZCR Perth 2010 will showcase highly credentialed and globally recognised speakers including:
2010 Carestream Professor
Marc Levine
Gastrointestinal Radiologist, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, PA USA; Professor of Radiology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Chief GI Radiology Penn PA, USA
Dr Levine has been a gastrointestinal (GI) radiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA since obtaining his M.D. at the University of Michigan and completing a radiology residency and GI radiology fellowship at Penn in 1982. He is Professor of Radiology in University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and chief of GI Radiology at Penn. Dr Levine has authored or co-authored more than 210 scientific articles and 120 review articles and chapters in the radiology literature. He also has edited or co-edited seven textbooks, including Radiology of the Esophagus, two editions of Double Contrast Gastrointestinal Radiology and three editions of Textbook of Gastrointestinal Radiology—all published by W. B. Saunders. Dr Levine served as the Traveling Professor for the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists (SGR) in 1989, the Distinguished Scientist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1995, Associate Editor of Radiology from 1999-2002, and President of the SGR from 2002-2004. He has been a Visiting Professor at more than 200 medical centres and participated in more than 120 postgraduate courses around the world. He received the Christian R. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at Penn Medicine in 2003 and the SGR’s Walter B. Cannon Medal for outstanding lifetime achievement in GI radiology in 2009. The “Marc S. Levine, M.D., Award for Research in Radiologic Imaging” was established at Penn in his honour in 2006 for 25 years of mentoring medical students in radiologic research. Dr Levine was appointed as Advisory Dean in Penn’s School of Medicine in 2003, a position in which he is responsible for mentoring one-fourth of each medical school class.
International Speakers Radiology
Dr James Earls
Partner, Director of Cardiac CT Program, Fairfax Radiological Consultants, VA, USA; Co-Director Cardiac CT Program, INOVA Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church VA; Director of Body and Cardiovascular MRI, INOVA Fairfax Hospital & Fairfax MRI Center, Falls Church, VA., USA
Dr Earls is a graduate of the New York University School of Medicine, he completed his internship and residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC and fellowship training in Magnetic Resonance Imaging at NYU. Previously Dr Earls served on the full time faculty at both Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr Earls is the author of over 100 articles, book chapters, abstracts and other publications on advanced imaging technologies. His research interests currently include new technologies and methods for improving accuracy and minimizing the associated radiation dose of cardiac CT. He lectures extensively on cardiovascular CT and MRI at both national and international meetings.
Ashley Guthrie
Consultant Radiologist St James’s University Hospital, Leeds UK; Senior Lecturer Leeds University, United Kingdom
Dr Guthrie was appointed as a Consultant Radiologist with a special interest in cross-sectional imaging at St James’s University Hospital, Leeds and Honorary Senior Lecturer Leeds University 15 years ago. His main clinical practice is gastrointestinal radiology, supporting the liver transplant service, and a large liver and pancreatic resection practice. Dr Guthrie’s main research interests include liver and pancreatic CT and MRI.
Dr Guthrie currently sits on the editorial board of European Radiology and Insights into Imaging and is secretary of the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. In addition he is an active member of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology and organises the Leeds Gastroenterology Course for Radiologists.
Dr Lindsay Machan
Consultant Radiologist Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver BC, Canada
Dr. Lindsay Machan is a radiologist at the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Vancouver, BC. He had undistinguished and inglorious stays as house surgeon and registrar in Dunedin, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia. He learned interventional radiology in Vancouver with Dr. Joachim Burhenne, in London with Profs David Allison and Andy Adam, and in Philadelphia with Stan Cope. Besides not being able to hold a job, he tries to develop medical devices, most of which no one outside of Vancouver has heard of or uses. Likely tempered by sympathy for being short and bald, he has been awarded the Manning Innovation Principle Award and the ISET Innovator Award. Dr. Machan is a founding member of the Canadian Interventional Radiology Association and is past president of the Western Angiographic and Interventional Society. His greatest regret is that he is not someone else.
Sudhakar Kundapur Venkatesh
Assistant Professor and Consultant Radiologist, National University Health System, Singapore
Dr. Venkatesh, MD FRCR is an Assistant Professor and Consultant in Diagnostic Imaging, National University Health System, Singapore. Dr.Venkatesh received his radiology training at Delhi University, India and later obtained fellowship in Royal College of Radiologists, London, UK. He is specialized in abdominal radiology (upper GI and Liver) and interventional radiology (locoregional treatment of liver tumours). Dr. Venkatesh is an active researcher with major interest in the MR imaging techniques of the abdomen such as Diffusion imaging, MR Elastography (MRE) and enterography. He is currently involved in establishing normal stiffness values of liver in Asians and utility of MRE in detection and staging of liver fibrosis as well as characterization of liver tumours.
International Speakers Radiation Oncology
Louis B Harrison
2010 ASTRO Representative
Clinical Director of Continuum Cancer Centres, New York; Gerald J. Friedman Chair of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Medical Centre, St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, New York; Professor of Radiation Oncology Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Dr Louis B. Harrison, MD, FASTRO, serves as the Clinical Director of Continuum Cancer Centres of New York as well as the Gerald J. Friedman Chair of Radiation Oncology at Beth Israel Medical Centre and St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals in New York. Continuum Cancer Centres is the combined programs of Beth Israel Medical Centre, St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr Harrison is an internationally recognised and extensively published expert in the areas of head and neck cancer, sarcomas, and intraoperative brachytherapy. He has been a leader in the development of multidisciplinary management strategies that prioritise cancer cure with organ and function preservation. He is co-editor of the award winning textbook Head and Neck Cancer, A Multidisciplinary Approach, now in its third edition. Dr Harrison is Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr Harrison received his M.D. degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Centre in 1982 (Alpha Omega Alpha) and completed his residency training in Radiation Oncology at Yale in 1986. He has served ASTRO (American Society for Radiation Oncology) as President-Elect (2006), President (2007), Chairman of the Board (2008) and Immediate Past Chairman of the Board (2009). ASTRO is the largest professional society for radiation oncology in the world, and one of the leading professional cancer societies in the United States. In addition, he is a Past President of the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) and the International Society of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (ISIORT), as well as an active member of the American Head and Neck Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Dr Harrison has been the recipient of the Clarence Dennis Society Prize for Surgical Scholarship, the Louise and Allston Boyer Award for Biomedical Research, the Ulrich Henschke Lecture Award for Brachytherapy, and the Distinguished Alumni Awards from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine as well as Poly Prep Country Day School.
Vincent Khoo
Head of Department of Clinical Oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital; Consultant, St George’s Hospital, Honorary Faculty, Institute of Cancer Research, University of London and Honorary Associate Professor, Austin Health, University of Melbourne
Dr Khoo is Head of Department of Clinical Oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital; Consultant, St George’s Hospital, Honorary Faculty, Institute of Cancer Research, University of London and Honorary Associate Professor, Austin Health, University of Melbourne. His committee membership includes UK NCRI CTRad, National Radiotherapy Implementation Group, CTAAC at Cancer Research UK, UK Familial Prostate Cancer, Clinical Oncology Editorial Board, ESTRO and ECCO committees. He is co-chairman of European Institute of Radiotherapy. He is advisory and reviewer for several cancer funds and international journals. He has research interests in combined modality therapy including targeted agents, multimodality imaging, and technical radiotherapy. He has published over 160 papers and chapters.
Colin Orton
Professor Emeritus Wayne State University, School of Medicine Michigan, USA
Professor Colin Orton graduated with a PhD in Radiation Physics from the University of London, England in 1965. Academic appointments at New York University School of Medicine (Assistant Professor 1966-1975), Brown University (Associate Professor 1975-1981), and Wayne State University (Professor 1981-2003), where he is currently Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine. Research interests are bioeffect dose modelling, development of new fractionation and dose-rate regimes, HDR brachytherapy, radiobiology, radiation carcinogenesis, and radiotherapy physics. He has served as President of the AAPM, the ACMP, the IOMP, the ABS, and the IUPESM, and has published 15 books and over 200 papers and chapters.
2010 Nisbet Orator
Andy Adam
Professor of Interventional Radiology, Kings College Hospital, London, UK; Current President of the Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom
Prof Adam trained in Radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and was appointed to the first professorial chair in interventional radiology in Europe at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Medical School in 1992. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and as President of eight national and international societies, including the Royal College of Radiologists and the European Society of Radiology. His primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of biliary and gastrointestinal intervention, and percutaneous tumour ablation. He has published over 200 scientific papers and book chapters, and has edited ten books.
