Royal Prince Alfred and Concord Hospitals, and Macquarie University Hospital, NSW

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.

St Vincent’s Hospital, VIC

Dr Melanie Seale MBBS (Hons) FRANZCR studied Medicine at the University of Melbourne and completed Radiology training at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. She spent 12 months as an Abdominal Imaging Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, subsequently returning to St Vincent’s, where she has been a consultant since 2009.  She has broad general experience in diagnostic radiology, including MRI, with a special interest in abdominal imaging, particularly liver, colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease imaging. She also practices breast imaging and is a reader for St Vincent’s BreastScreen.

Melanie established and oversees Peer Review meetings in the Medical Imaging Department, has been a past Director of Training, has an ongoing interest in trainee education and is an examiner for RANZCR fellowship exams.

Pacific Radiology and Wellington Public Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania
Qscan group, Hobart

Dr Jennifer Shoobridge works as a Radiologist at the Royal Hobart Hospital and at Qscan, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Tasmania.

Jennifer studied Medicine at the University of Tasmania and completed Radiology training at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. She has a special interest in colorectal and pelvic imaging. Jennifer regularly participates in gastrointestinal/ colorectal oncology, colorectal surgery and inflammatory bowel disease MDTs.