Annual Meeting
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
8-9 March 2025
Professor of Radiology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Arizona, USA
Dr. Christine O. Menias is a Professor of Radiology in the Abdominal Radiology section at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Arizona, USA. She joined Mayo Clinic in 2013, is a Consultant in the Department of Radiology and Department of Surgery and is the former Chair of the Division of Abdominal Imaging, Mayo Clinic-Arizona. Prior to this she was Professor of Radiology at Washington University, and director of Body CT and Emergency Radiology, in addition to being the assistant program director of the radiology residency at Washington University.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, she received her M.D. degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. She completed her Residency and Abdominal Imaging Fellowship at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and stayed on as Washington University faculty for 15 years before coming to Mayo Clinic. Dr. Menias is a recognized leader in the field of Abdominal Imaging, with special interests in oncologic, transplant, gynecologic and emergency radiology. “Cooky” is an active member in many prestigious radiology societies and consistently invited to lecture at numerous national and international esteemed radiology conferences, including the Radiological Society of North America, American Roentgen Ray Society, American Society of Emergency Radiology, and many international societies. She was selected as the 2016-2017 Igor Laufer Visiting Professor of the Society of Abdominal Radiology, allowing her to lecture to over 20 national and international radiology institutions.
Dr. Menias is a Diplomate in Radiology for the National Board of Medical Examiners and was an examiner for the American Board of Radiology from 2003-2021, and has published seven books, multiple book chapters, and over 320 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
She prides herself most with being an educator and has received numerous teaching awards from the residents and fellows in her past years at Washington University and Mayo Clinic, including multiple “Teacher of the Year” honors, both at Washington University and at Mayo Clinic. She was also named overall Best Researcher by all the trainees of Mayo Clinic in 2021. Dr. Menias received the American Roentgen Ray Society Educator of the Year Award in 2019 and was awarded the most effective Radiology educator by Aunt Minnie.com in 2022. Cooky received the Radiological Society of North America’s Honored Educator Award for five years and was named as Lifetime Honored Educator Award Recipient by the Radiological Society of North America in 2022. Dr. Menias was most recently awarded the Society of Abdominal Radiology Gold Medal for 2023, which is the highest recognition given by the Society.
Dr. Menias’ clinical focus has been geared to patient centered care and her clinical expertise has been recognized by Mayo Clinic as she received the honor of Mayo Clinic Arizona Distinguished Clinician of the Year 2018, an honor rarely given to a Radiologist, and the award of which she is most proud. In 2020 she received the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University, and was most recently named an Evens Scholar, as one of six distinguished alumni of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in 2022.
Dr. Menias currently serves as the first female Editor-in-chief of RadioGraphics, our leading education journal for Diagnostic Radiology, and splits her time between Mayo Clinic and at the Journal.
Ferenc A. Jolesz MD Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Vice Chair of Radiology Research and Medical Director, Advanced Multi-modal Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) Suite, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
Dr. Clare Tempany MB BAO BCh, is the Ferenc A. Jolesz MD Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair of Radiology Research and Medical Director of the Advanced Multi-modal Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) Suite – a suite of translational clinical research procedural and operating rooms at Brigham & Women’s hospital.
She is a native of Dublin Ireland and a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She completed her internship and a senior house officer program in internal medicine in Dublin prior to moving to Chicago for residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at Loyola University of Chicago. This was followed by fellowship and first faculty appointment in MRI at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, in Baltimore Maryland. Three years later she moved to Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston to join the Radiology faculty and the Abdominal imaging division. She has remained at BWH and HMS ever since.
She established the body MRI program at BWH with a pioneering focus on Prostate Cancer. The prostate cancer program focuses not only diagnostic imaging but image guided interventions in prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy. She leads an active prostate cancer research group which encompasses basic research in IGT and multiple clinical trials. Through a unique partnership with Anthony D’Amico, MD, (Radiation Oncology) they jointly established the first ever MR guided prostate cancer brachytherapy program and along with Noby Hata, PhD, she established the first MR guided transperineal, in bore prostate cancer biopsy program. Now 20 years later, both MR guided prostate cancer biopsy and MR guided radiation therapy are part of the standard of care across the globe in prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.
She has had continuous NIH research funding for over 20 years and is currently the PI of the NIH funded P41, National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT) and a T32 training grant in Image-guided Therapy. She has published extensively with over 220 original publications, her H-Index is 80 (google scholar) and her weighted RCR is 617 (iCite) Dr. Tempany is currently the Vice Chair of Radiology at BWH and Co-Chair of the PI-RADS international committee which establishes standards for MR acquisition, interpretation, and clinical application. She is the study chair for a large multi-center ECOG-ACRIN trial in Prostate MRI. Prior to this she pioneered MRgFUS for the treatment of uterine fibroids, along with Elizabeth Stewart she led the trials leading to FDA clearance of the ExAblate device for this novel disruptive technology. She has been honored both nationally and international through multiple invited lectureships, is and is the recipient of the Gold Medal from the ISMRM and the Jack Colbert memorial award.
Professor of Radiology at the Institut Gustave Roussy
Immediate Past Editor-in-Chief, European Radiology
Paris, France
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.
Dr 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 Levy is a dual trained Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Specialist with local and international postgraduate fellowship training in nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography, urological, head and neck and musculoskeletal MRI. He completed his PhD on the biology of lymphoedema through the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and University of Melbourne.
Dr Katerina Mastrocostas graduated from the University of New South Wales (Hons) in 2007. She completed Radiology training at Concord and RPA Hospitals in Sydney, and attained FRANZCR in February 2015. Katerina completed Cross-Sectional Imaging and Abdominal Imaging Fellowships at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2015-2017. She is a Staff Specialist Radiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital. Katerina’s areas of clinical interest include Hepatobiliary/Pancreas and advanced Bowel imaging. Her research and professional development interests are in health care efficacy and clinical governance. She is also co-lead of the Film Bank Quiz project for Radiology Across Borders.
Dr Divya Mehta completed her radiology training in Auckland in 2017, followed by Oncology Imaging fellowship at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. She is a Consultant Radiologist at Auckland City Hospital, involved with the Hepatoma and Colorectal Cancer MDMs and a Director of Training for radiology trainees.
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.
Dr 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 an Executive Committee Member of both ARGANZ & the RANZCR WA Branch since 2013, and has been part of the American College of Radiology LI-RADS Surveillance (formerly US LI-RADS) Working Group since 2017. At Royal Perth Hospital he currently serves as the Director of Training, regularly chairs the weekly HCC multidisciplinary meeting, and has a keen interest in registrar teaching.
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.
Arj is a radiologist who works at the Gold Coast University Hospital and privately 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 as well as the chair of the RANZCR Qld Branch Committee.
Dr Won Kyung Sung (MBBS, FRANZCR) has been a radiologist in Qscan Radiology Clinic since 2014. Won Kyung completed her undergraduate training from the University of Adelaide in 2004 and completed her internship and residency at Royal Adelaide Hospital. Won Kyung trained in Diagnostic Radiology at Flinders Medical Centre, completing RANZCR specialist college of radiology examinations in 2010. In 2011 she took a fellowship in MRI at Flinders Medical Centre, followed by observership in Abdominal Imaging at Duke University Hospital, Durham, USA in 2012. Upon returning to Australia in 2013, Won Kyung worked as a diagnostic radiologist at Royal Darwin Hospital. Upon relocating to Brisbane she has joined Qscan Radiology Clinic in 2014. Won Kyung has been employed as a consultant radiologist at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital since 2016 and continues to serve as a senior staff specialist, where she is dedicated to training and teaching of resgistras as well as being involved in colorectal and hepatobiliary multi-disciplinary meetings. Won Kyung’s subspecialty interests include body imaging where she is currently serving as an executive member of Abdominal Radiology Group Australia and New Zealand (ARGANZ). She also has keen interest on musculoskeletal imaging.
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 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 MDMs.
Verity 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.
She is a director of training and has recently joined the Te Aho o Te Kahu, Cancer Control Agency MDM advisory group. Verity is actively involved in weekly hepatobiliary and colorectal MDMs.
Dr Jessica Yang is a consultant radiologist at Concord and Macquarie University Hospitals in Sydney and specialises in abdominal and pelvic imaging. She works closely with clinical specialties and is an active member in multidisciplinary team meetings including liver, colorectal, prostate, 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 a grant for a prospective pilot study. She is one of the chief investigators on the MRFF funded SCANPatient clinical trial. 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) meeting.