Annual Meeting
The Westin, Perth
28-29 March 2026
Professor of Radiology
Montpellier Cancer Institute
Director of the PINKCC Lab (Precision Imaging as a New Key in Cancer Care), IRCM
Montpellier, France
Professor Stéphanie Nougaret is a leading expert in oncological imaging, specializing in rectal and gynecological cancers. She is a Professor of Radiology at the Montpellier Cancer Institute and Director of the PINKCC Lab (Precision Imaging as a New Key in Cancer Care) at IRCM. Her research focuses on integrating artificial intelligence, radiomics, and advanced imaging techniques to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment response prediction.
Actively involved in international scientific societies, she is the chair of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology’s Women Imaging Working Group and the founder of GRERCAR, a research group dedicated to rectal cancer imaging. She has authored over 150 scientific articles, with an H-index of 43 and more than 5,000 citations.
Her leadership in oncological imaging is reinforced by her role in major European and international research initiatives, securing competitive grants such as the European Research Council Starting Grant.
Professor of Radiology, Université Paris-Cité
Head, Department of Medical Imaging at Beaujon University Hospital
Clichy, France
Professor Maxime Ronot, is affiliated with the Université Paris-Cité and is the Head of the Department of Medical Imaging at Beaujon University Hospital in Clichy, France. Specializing in abdominal imaging, he focuses on liver and pancreas diseases and tumors, interventional abdominal oncology, and abdominal vascular diseases.
He holds memberships in various prominent French and European radiology societies, including the French and European Societies of Radiology and the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR). He is a member of the LI-RADS steering committee. In this capacity, he chairs the LI-RADS benign liver lesions group and contributes to the LI-RADS AI and cholangiocarcinomagroups and the CIRSE AI task force. Prof. Ronot has authored or coauthored over 400 articles and books.
Furthermore, he serves as the president of the French national ethics committee for medical imaging research.
Sponsored by: Bayer
Professor and Chair of Radiology
University and Hospital of Fribourg
Switzerland
Professor Harriet C. Thoeny is currently serving as Professor and Chair of Radiology at the University and Hospital of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is the Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and an Associate Editor of the journal Radiology.
Her outstanding contributions to the field have been honored with the prestigious Gold Medal from the European Society of Radiology (ESR). She holds honorary memberships in several esteemed organizations, including the Spanish Society of Abdominal Radiology (SERAM), the French Society of Radiology (SFR), and RSNA. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Society of Abdominal Radiology (ASAR) and a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
Professor Thoeny is a Fellow of the International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS), the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR), and the European Society of Head & Neck Radiology (ESHNR). She previously served as President of ESUR, further demonstrating her leadership and dedication to advancing radiological science.
Her primary research interests focus on functional MRI, particularly in applications related to urogenital and head & neck radiology, as well as cancer imaging and the use of gadolinium-based contrast agents.
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 Australian and NZ College of Radiologists (RANZCR), Jash is the NZ Branch Chair. Jash works closely with 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.
Dr Mark Goodwin is a specialist Interventional and Hepatobiliary radiologist. Interventional Radiology (IR) is an independent medical specialty, which uses minimally invasive techniques to diagnose and treat conditions in almost every organ system in the body. Dr Goodwin performs a wide range of procedures, with a particular focus on interventional oncology – the minimally invasive diagnosis and targeted treatment of cancer. He also performs a large number of procedures not related to cancer. Dr Goodwin has a particular interest and extensive experience in the diagnosis, staging and treatment of primary and secondary liver cancers. As well as his interventional work, Dr Goodwin is an acknowledged expert in advanced imaging of the liver, pancreas and biliary systems.
A/Prof Kirsten Gormly is a radiologist and partner 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 an invited speaker at many national and international meetings, runs radiologist workshops in rectal cancer and is pleased to contribute to the Radiology Across Borders free education program. She has a number of publications, including invited international perspective articles, contributed to the French GRERCAR Rectal MRI guidelines and is a panel member of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) rectal MRI consensus guideline update 2024. She is actively involved in research in rectal and prostate cancer with an honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer position at The University of Adelaide. Kirsten promotes collaboration between radiologists and other speciality groups. She is a past chair of ARGANZ and life member since 2021, a current member of the ARGANZ executive and was elected as a corresponding fellow of ESGAR in 2023. She is the radiologist member of the lower GI working party of the Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group (AGITG), research committee member of the SA Prostate Cancer Clinical Outcomes Collaborative (SA-PCCOC) and member of the Membership committee of ESGAR.
Dr Tonya Halliday has been a radiologist at Envision Medical Imaging since 2011. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Glasgow in 1989, working at the Royal Infirmary and Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before commencing her radiology training and graduating from the Royal College of Radiologists in the UK in 1999.
After completing her fellowship in Cross-Sectional Imaging at Royal Perth Hospital in Australia, she returned to the UK and worked as an MRI consultant radiologist. In 2006, Tonya relocated back to Perth, working in private practice and at Royal Perth Hospital, where she completed her RANZCR Fellowship.
Tonya also underwent training in CT colonoscopy and attained her accreditation in coronary artery CT reporting in 2017.
Dr Mayooran Kandasamy is a staff specialist radiologist at Prince of Wales Hospital and PRP Diagnostic Imaging in NSW. He has completed a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging with the University of Toronto Joint Department of Medical Imaging. He has an interest in all areas of abdominal and pelvic imaging.
Dr Levy is a dual qualified Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Specialist with local and international postgraduate fellowship training in genitourinary, head and neck, neurological and musculoskeletal MRI and PET CT. He has had considerable experience as a lead radiologist and nuclear medicine specialist in genitourinary and head and neck oncology multidisciplinary meetings at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Cabrini Health and Monash Health. He has public appointments with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Monash Health, and private appointments with I-MED Radiology Network and Cabrini Health in Melbourne. As a Senior Lecturer through the University of Melbourne, he maintains an active educational and research programme in genitourinary and head and neck oncology.
Emmeline obtained her primary medical degree from the University of Western Australia, and a Diploma of O&G from RANZCOG, before specialising in Radiology in WA. She then completed fellowships in Women’s Imaging and in Breast Imaging. She is the Director of BreastScreenWA. She also works at Sir Charles Gairdner and King Edward Memorial Hospitals. She is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia.
Emmeline is heavily involved at RANZCR, where she is the Lead examiner in O&G Imaging, Foundational Chair of OGSIG and is on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion taskforce. She was the 2023 Bill Hare Travelling Fellow.
She is Radiopaedia’s Expert Advisor for Obstetrics and is a Board member of ASUM.
Emmeline has received multiple awards, including the Professor Turab Chakera Award for Radiology Teaching in 2015 and 2025, ASUM Sonologist of the Year in 2019 and Dean’s Letter of Recommendation from the UWA Medical School in 2025.
She is strongly committed to volunteer work, and is the Lead in O&G for Radiology Across Borders.
Emmeline is really enjoys Registrar teaching, especially expanding their vocabulary in the weekly Instagram Radiology Word of the Week Challenge, as well as Tea appreciation (in collaboration with Dr Sarah Constantine – her tea supplier and fellow O&G Co-Lead Examiner).
Dr Glen Lo dreamed of being a professional contemporary dancer. So, he did that. He was privileged to tour Australia and even perform at Sydney Opera House, albeit as Warren the White Rabbit in a children’s dance theatre re-make of Alice in Wonderland. When it was time to settle down and buy a house the arts didn’t pay enough for a mortgage, so he returned to his back-up career in medicine and trained to be a radiologist. He undertook fellowships in abdominal and women’s imaging in Toronto, Canada, where he also learned to ski but he’s not very good and broke a rib doing a yard sale.
He now subspecialises in O&G and breast diagnostic imaging and is based in Perth, Western Australia. His ski boots are in the cupboard, and he lost his ballet shoes years ago. But he’s a ninja with a speculum and HyFoSy catheter now.
Richard Mendelson was a consultant abdominal radiologist at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) from 1986 until retirement from clinical practice in 2016. He is now an Emeritus Consultant at RPH and is a Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia. He was also previously an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University in Fremantle, Western Australia.
He has extensive radiology teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including a past term as Director of Radiology Training in Western Australia.
He has authored or co-authored 8 books or book chapters and over 60 papers and editorials.
He was founding co-chairman of the Abdominal Radiology Group of Australia and New Zealand (ARGANZ) and is now a Life Member, is an Honorary Fellow of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) and was awarded the Roentgen Medal by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists in 2013 and Life Membership in 2014.
He has a career-long interest in the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging being founding Editor of ‘Diagnostic Imaging Pathways (DIP)’ -an on-line clinical decision support and educational tool for referrers to diagnostic imaging: (www.radiologyacrossborders.org/diagnostic_imaging_pathways/) that has achieved national and international acclaim.
His main clinical radiology interests are in Abdominal Imaging, specifically the GI tract, pancreas and hepatobiliary system.
He is currently Acting Chief Editor of DIP and co-head of the Radiology Across Borders, International Certificate of Radiology Fundamentals (Abdominal section).
Dr Janelle Morris is a consultant radiologist at Fiona Stanley, Fremantle and Rockingham hospitals specialising in women’s and abdominal imaging. She is also the Radiology Head of Department at Fremantle Hospital.
Janelle completed radiology training through the Western Australian Radiology Training program followed by a Women’s Imaging fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2017. During training, Janelle was the inaugural winner of the ARGANZ Mendelson Research prize.
Janelle is an active member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. She is a Director of Training for Fiona Stanley, Fremantle and Rockingham hospitals.
Dr Geertje Noë a medical graduate from the Netherlands completed her radiology training at Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia in 2014 where she developed a keen interest in liver and pancreatic imaging. She has been a fulltime radiology consultant and MRI lead at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia since 2016 with a subspecialty interest in abdominal imaging and is part of the upper gastrointestinal and lower gastrointestinal multidisciplinary teams. She is involved in teaching of trainees in abdominal imaging and contributes to research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to this date.
Will is an Interventional and Diagnostic Radiologist at Sir Charles Gairdner and Hollywood Private Hospitals. After finishing his Radiology training in 2017, he completed several fellowships in interventional radiology and abdominal/oncology imaging, including fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, USA and Auckland City and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospitals.
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.
MBBS, FRANZCOG, CGO, Dip.Surg.Ed.
Stuart Salfinger is a Certified Gynaecologic Oncologist. He is Past President of the Australasian Gynaecologic Endoscopy and Surgery Society and past executive Board member of the Australian Society of Gynaecologic Oncologists. He is a College examiner for the RANZCOG Gynaecologic Oncology subspecialty exams.
He has over 60 peer review publications and has given over 150 presentations at national and international meetings. He also serves as a committee member on the NHMRC MRFF Grant Assessment Committee.
Stuart’s particular clinical interest is in Gynaecologic Cancer Surgery and complex laparoscopic surgery. He specialises in this area with a particular emphasis in the laparoscopic management of gynaecologic cancers.
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 (Victorian Liver-Transplant Unit). James has been both an ARGANZ & RANZCR WA Branch Executive Committee Member since 2013, and part of the ACR LI-RADS Surveillance Working Group since 2017. He also has interests in abdominal incidentalomas, and is part of the ARGANZ Adrenal & Liver Focus Groups. At RPH he is currently the Director of Training, regularly chairs the HCC MDM, and has a keen interest in trainee education.
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, and is a dual trained Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Specialist. She is an Abdominal examiner for RANZCR and a previous co-Lead examiner. She joined the ARGANZ executive in 2018.
Arj is a radiologist who works at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and at Queensland X-Ray in Brisbane. After completing a fellowship in cross sectional imaging in Toronto in 2019, he returned to Queensland, focusing mostly on abdominal and pelvic CT/MRI and non-vascular intervention. Arj is a current executive member of ARGANZ and chair of the RANZCR Qld Branch Committee.
A/Prof Tom Sutherland is an abdominal radiologist and director of medical imaging at St Vincent’s Hospital. He is responsible for the upper gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and urology MDM’s and has authored over 80 peer review articles and a number of text book chapters. He has a strong interest in health advocacy and keeping things simple.
Dr Jessica Yang 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.