24 Sep
ESUR 2026
Join us for the ESUR symposium from 24th to 27th September 2026, in Paris, France.https://www.paris2026.esur.org/general-information/
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Chair
Dr Jessica Yang graduated from UNSW in 2000. She is a staff specialist radiologist at Royal Prince Alfred and Concord Hospitals, and Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney. She subspecialises in abdominal and pelvic imaging and works closely with clinical specialties and is an active member of multidisciplinary team meetings including liver, colorectal, IBD, paediatric IBD and pelvic floor. She is involved in multiple research projects, frequently in collaboration with clinical specialties. Her team’s research on abbreviated MRI for HCC surveillance was awarded the Mendelson Research Prize in 2019 and the project is currently being funded by two grants for a prospective pilot study. She is one of the chief investigators on the SCANPatient research project which received MRFF grant funding. Her research has been published in high impact factor journals such as Radiology, Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology, European Radiology and Abdominal Radiology. Jessica was an author on the ESGAR consensus statement on the imaging of fistula-in-ano and other causes of anal sepsis. Jessica has been invited to speak at international and national meetings and workshops including at the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) meetings.
Deputy Chair
Dr Jash Agraval graduated from the University of Auckland Medical School in 2007 and completed his radiology training in Auckland. He then undertook subspecialty fellowship training in Oncologic and Molecular imaging at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, returning to Auckland in 2016. He is currently the Clinical Director of Radiology at North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals, as well as the clinical lead for the Health NZ Transforming Diagnostic Imaging (TDI) project.
Jash has subspecialty interests in PET-CT and oncologic imaging with a particular focus in hepatobiliary, gynaecologic and prostate imaging.
An active member of the Royal Australia NZ College of Radiologists (RANZCR), Jash is the Deputy Chief Censor and Chair of the Curriculum Assessment Committee. He also sits on the Education and Training Committee, Research Committee and Maori, Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Executive Committee. Jash is an active member of Radiology Across Borders where he is the co-lead in the International Certificate of Radiology Fundamentals (ICRF) which provides radiology education and support to developing nations.
Treasurer
Dr Kate McLean is a Diagnostic Radiologist working at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, the statewide liver and renal transplant centre. Her interest areas are hepatopancreatobiliary and colorectal imaging actively participating in these weekly multidisciplinary meetings. Kate joined the ARGANZ executive in 2025, is the lead of the Liver focus group and has presented at multiple statewide and national conferences and workshops. She is a Senior Lecturer with University of Queensland and a member of the Cancer Alliance Queensland Partnership, the RANZCR Case Reporting Examination panel and GI cancer trials.
Annual Meeting Scientific Convenor / Social Media
Dr Teng Han Tan is a consultant radiologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. He is the CT Lead Radiologist for the Department of Radiology at Peter Mac, and is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at the University of Melbourne. A Body Radiologist with an interest in Pelvic MRI, he participates in the Lower GI and Gynae Oncology Multidisciplinary meetings. He has a strong interest in teaching, and is involved in Registrar and Fellow training.
Executive Member / International Relations
A/Prof Kirsten Gormly is a consultant radiologist at Jones Radiology, South Australia. She has special interests in oncology imaging and pelvic MRI including rectal cancer, prostate cancer, female urology and benign and malignant gynaecological conditions. She was trained in rectal MRI by Prof Gina Brown while working at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London in 2002-4. Kirsten is past chair of ARGANZ and an honorary clinical senior lecturer at The University of Adelaide. She was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of ESGAR in 2023 and a Fellow of the International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS) in 2024. She is a member of the Lower GI working party of the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG) and the research committee of the South Australian Prostate Cancer Clinical Outcomes Collaborative (SA-PCCOC). Kirsten has a number of published papers and books, regularly presents at national and international conferences and workshops including Radiology Across Borders, and promotes collaboration between radiologists and other speciality groups.
Executive Member
James Seow is an Abdominal Radiologist at Royal Perth Hospital, with a primary interest in Liver Imaging, having completed subspecialty fellowships in Abdominal & Hepatobiliary Imaging at RPH & Austin Health, Melbourne. James has been an Executive Committee Member of ARGANZ since 2013, and a member of the American College of Radiology LI-RADS Surveillance Working Group since 2017. He also has interests in Abdominal Incidentalomas, and is part of the ARGANZ Adrenal Focus Group and recently the Society of Abdominal Radiology Adrenal Neoplasm Disease Focused Panel.
Additionally, he has been an Executive Committee Member of the RANZCR WA Branch since 2013, and at RPH is the Director of Training, with a keen interest in trainee education, being awarded the statewide Turab Chakera Award for Excellence in Radiology Teaching in 2023. He now serves on the Scientific Editorial Board for the new journal, European Radiology – Abdomen, and has been an invited speaker at international conferences including ESGAR, RSNA and the Asia Pacific Liver Imaging Symposium.
Executive Member / NZ Relations
Dr Gabriel Lau is a Shareholding Radiologist at Pacific Radiology/RHC NZ. His interests are primarily vascular/abdominal/oncological imaging and vascular/oncological interventions. He previously worked at National University Hospital, as lead Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist for the Liver Transplant Unit and as Consultant Radiologist/Head of Interventional Radiology at Dunedin Public Hospital. He is currently the Editor in Chief at JMIRO, EBIR examiner, RSNA Educational Exhibit Committee member, Board member CMC and on MISPAC IANZ.
Executive Member / Secretary
Sarah is a general radiologist at Bendigo Health and Bendigo Radiology. Sarah trained in Adelaide before making a tree-change to regional Victoria. Her interests are genitourinary and oncology imaging, in particular PET and pelvic MRI. She is an Abdominal examiner for RANZCR and a member of the MRI Reference Group. She joined the ARGANZ executive in 2018.
Executive Member / MRP and Grants Co-ordinator
Dr Won Kyung Sung is a staff specialist working at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and is a consultant radiologist at Qscan Radiology in Queensland. Following graduation from University of Adelaide, she trained at Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia completing clinical fellowship in MR imaging at Flinders Medical Centre. Won Kyung’s primary interest is in prostate and liver imaging and regularly chairs the colorectal and hepatobiliary MDT at RBWH.
Executive Member / Website and Social Media
Arj is a radiologist from Queensland, and splits his time working with Queensland X-Ray (in Brisbane) and the Gold Coast University Hospital. After completing his radiology training at the Gold Coast in 2018, he spent a year in Toronto at a body imaging fellowship at St Michael’s Hospital. He’s a regular participant in several colorectal, GI, urological and hepatobiliary MDTs, and his working interests include abdominal and pelvic CT and MRI, and all manner of CT-guided procedures.
Executive Member / Trainees & New Radiologist Engagement
Dr Dean Rabinowitz trained in Radiology between Royal Perth Hospital in WA and Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney before obtaining advanced training in cardiac CT/MRI and body imaging (with MRI emphasis) in 2013-14. He currently holds a staff specialist position at Prince of Wales/Sydney Children’s Hospital (body imaging/oncology intervention/cardiothoracic subspecialist roles). He has an interest in contrast enhanced ultrasound and has established a clinical for this at Prince of Wales Hospital. He is a conjoint lecturer with the POWH-UNSW Clinical School and has been a Director of Training at Prince of Wales Hospital.
Executive Member
Numan finished medical training at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. He moved to Australia and completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology prior to training in Radiology at Austin Health. He currently works at Austin Health as an abdominal and breast radiologist. He is undertaking a part-time PhD in artificial intelligence for liver imaging.
Executive Member
Te Whatu Ora Waitaha, Christchurch, NZ
Dr Verity Wood is an abdominal radiologist working at Te Whatu Ora Waitaha, Christchurch.
In 2018 she completed a fellowship in Body Imaging and Intervention in Vancouver through the University of British Columbia.
Verity is a director of training and has recently joined the Te Aho o Te Kahu, Cancer Control Agency MDM advisory group. She is actively involved in weekly hepatobiliary and colorectal MDMs
24 Sep
Join us for the ESUR symposium from 24th to 27th September 2026, in Paris, France.https://www.paris2026.esur.org/general-information/
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