2026 MRP winner Dr Kirsten Biddle (right) receives her prize from Prof Mendelson (left)
ARGANZ is delighted to offer the Mendelson Research Prize to RANZCR registrars to encourage research in abdominal imaging.
ARGANZ is pleased to announce that oral presentations accepted as candidates for the Mendelson Research Prize (MRP) at the ARGANZ annual meeting meet the Clinical Radiology Research Project Oral Presentation requirements, which previously were restricted to local/network Branch of Origin meetings. This reflects the established high standard of MRP presentations which are selected and judged by subspecialists in Abdominal Imaging from Australia & New Zealand. For transitioning trainees, the MRP remains an approved avenue for meeting Project 2 oral presentation requirements.
You are invited to submit your research, with up to four finalists accepted for oral presentation at the annual ARGANZ meeting. First prize is a trip to the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) Annual Meeting in Europe including flights, accommodation and registration. This is the premier international abdominal imaging meeting suitable for all levels of abdominal imagers. There are lectures where you can hear directly from the leaders in abdominal imaging, as well as basic teaching sessions for trainees through the School of ESGAR. There is plenty of opportunity to hear from, and contribute to the latest scientific research. Second prize receives complimentary registration for the following year’s ARGANZ meeting and up to $1000 reimbursement for flights and accommodation.
Abstracts not accepted for oral presentation may be offered a paper poster presentation.
The prize was created in 2015 and in 2017 was named after the founding Chairman of ARGANZ, Professor Richard Mendelson, Royal Perth Hospital, WA. Prof Mendelson was the driving force behind the creation of ARGANZ and we all owe him a huge debt of gratitude for promoting Abdominal imaging in Australia and New Zealand.
We congratulate the 2026 winners of the Mendelson Research Prize:
First Prize: Dr Kirsten Biddle from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA, for her presentation: A retrospective audit of MRI prostate volumes comparing calculations by artificial intelligence with radiologists—are they comparable?
Second Prize: Dr Minh-Son To from South Australia Medical Imaging for his presentation: Large-scale automated analysis of PSMA PET-CT using deep learning and large language models: linking imaging phenotypes with clinical outcomes in prostate cancer.
The 2026 ARGANZ Meeting Most Popular Poster Prize went to Dr Stanley Xue from Concord Hospital, NSW, for his poster titled: Unusual rectal strictures: recurrent bladder urothelial cell carcinoma masquerading as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—two case reports and a literature review.