Prof Celso Matos

Vice President

Celso Matos studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Brussels, Belgium and obtained his Medical Degree Magna Cum Laude in 1980. After a fellowship in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the University of Brussels, he started his fellowship in Radiology at the department of Radiology at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium in 1983. As a board certified radiologist he joined the faculty in this department and led the MR imaging division since 1990. He became Professor of Clinical Radiology in 2001 at Erasme University Hospital. In late 2015 Celso Matos moved to Lisbon to start his current position as Head of the Imaging department at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown and co Director of Champalimaud Research for clinical investigation. Celso Matos has been President of the ESGAR (European Society for Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Radiology). As a radiologist he contributes to the imaging programme of several annual meetings and regularly co-organises radiological-clinical educational events. Celso Matos’ main areas of clinical and research interest are abdominal and oncologic imaging. His main focus is multidisciplinary research in pancreatic cancer and related disorders. Celso Matos has been part of the Abdominal Section of the European Radiology Editorial Board since 2014 and has been appointed Associate Editor of Radiology in November 2016.He received the European School of Radiology Best teacher Award in 2014.

Dr Hersh Chandarana

Dr. Chandarana is a tenured Professor of Radiology, Associate Chair for Clinical and Translational Research, and physician-scientist in the Department of Radiology at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Chandarana has interest and experience in the development and application of advanced imaging techniques to study pathophysiology of abdominopelvic diseases, with special interest in oncologic imaging. His extensive and productive collaborative efforts with clinicians and basic scientists as well as industry scientists allows him to collaboratively address important clinical problems.

Dr Masako Kataoka

Dr Sarah Vinnicombe

Dr Gigin Lin

President Elect

Dr. Gigin Lin is a physician-scientist specializing in medical imaging and cancer research. He holds an M.D. from Chang Gung University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Institute of Cancer Research at the University of London. He is currently a Professor of Radiology at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan. His translational research bridges clinical radiology and computational sciences, focusing on AI-enabled imaging for cancer detection, treatment monitoring, and biomarker discovery. A Fellow of the International Cancer Imaging Society, he has received national awards and international recognition, including invited lectures at ISMRM and RSNA. Dr. Lin’s research integrates advanced imaging, molecular biomarkers, and artificial intelligence to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment. His work spans molecular imaging with CT, PET, and MRI to identify imaging surrogates of tumor biology; clinical metabolomics to discover novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets; and AI-driven tools such as automated tumor segmentation, radiomics analysis, and outcome prediction across multiple cancers. He has also advanced Hyperpolarised C13 MRI, developing metabolic biomarkers to enhance treatment response. Through these multidisciplinary efforts, Dr. Lin aims to translate cutting-edge imaging and computational technologies into precision oncology applications that directly impact patient care.

Thierry Huisman

Immediate Past President

Thierry A.G.M. Huisman is the current Radiologist-in-Chief and TCH Chair of the Department of Radiology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, USA. He also holds the Edward B. Singleton Chair of Radiology. He is a tenured Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine and holds adjunct Professor Appointments at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Neurosurgery and Pediatrics. Before he joined TCH he served 11 years at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He was the Chairman of the Department of Imaging and Imaging Science at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. In addition, he was the Director of the Division of Pediatric Radiology, Director and founder of the Division of Pediatric Neuroradiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Co-Director of the Neurointensive Care Nursery (NICN), the Johns Hopkins Fetal Program and the Center for Translational and Molecular Imaging (CTMI). Prior to his tenure at Johns Hopkins he was the Chairman and Radiologist-in-Chief of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich. He graduated cum laude from Medical School at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, before completing residencies in Radiology and Pediatrics and fellowships in Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Huisman enjoyed a 2.5-year research sabbatical at the Massachusetts General Hospital NMR center, Harvard Medical School in Boston. His primary field of expertise and research focuses on advanced, quantitative, precision imaging in the field of Neuroradiology. He has given more than 480 invited lectures, published 430 articles and 31 reviews, 67 book chapters, 6 text books, serves on multiple scientific committees of the various radiological societies and has organized multiple national and international meetings in Europe and the USA. He has been one of the founding members of the Swiss Symposium in Pediatric Neuroradiology and the Neurointensive Care Nursery at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Huisman served as a faculty member of the AIRP course in Washington, DC (2013-2019), and is a course advisor for the IDKD course in Davos, Switzerland since 2012. Furthermore, he has built several patient and family focused multidisciplinary programs and is actively involved in mentorship programs. He is a reviewer for multiple scientific journals and is an editorial member of 5 journals. He served as president of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (2014/15) and the Eastern Neuroradiological Society (ENRS) (2020/2021), is a fellow of the International Cancer Imaging Society, the Global Newborn Society, the American College of Radiology, and the American Society Pediatric Neuroradiology. He is the elected President of the International Cancer Imaging Society, 2024-2025. Finally, he served as senior editor of the American Journal of Neuroradiology 2015-2023.

Dr Wan Hang Keith Chiu

Prof Fred Prior

Dr Rosemarie Forstner

Dr Nikolaos Papanikolaou

Nickolas Papanikolaou, PhD (Male), is a Principal Investigator in Oncologic Imaging at CHAMPALIMAUD FOUNDATION and research group leader of the Computational Clinical Imaging Group. He is an Affiliated Researcher at Karolinska Institute and a Senior Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science – FORTH. Dr. Nikolaos Papanikolaou studied biomedical engineering while he obtained his Ph.D. from the Medical School of the University of Crete. He has been a research associate of the Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Heraklion, from 1999 to 2009. He has published 85 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 17 chapters in international books. At the same time, he edited a series of 3 books on Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Applications in GI, GU, and Hepatobiliary systems. He has delivered more than 100 invited lectures in international congresses and educational courses. He served as a member of the editorial board of European Radiology in the section of experimental radiology while he was a member of the abdominal subcommittee of ECR. He has been awarded two research scholarships from ECR. Finally, he is an honorary member of the Spanish Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology (SEDIA). The main focus of his research is the development and validation of imaging biomarkers on cancer applications. He recently initiated the development of a Radiomics Network comprising luminary clinical sites in the US and Europe to advance research in that area of Radiomics. He is the section editor on AI, Radiomics, and Machine Learning in Cancer Imaging, and he is chairing the e-learning subcommittee of ICIS.

Prof Patrick Asbach

Dr. Patrick Asbach is a body imaging radiologist at the Charité in Berlin, Germany. He holds a professorship in diagnostic radiology at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. As a committed educator, Dr. Asbach has delivered over 100 lectures at conferences worldwide, and he was scientific organizer of several workshops on urogenital imaging. He has contributed to the literature through book chapters, commentaries, editorials, and over 100 scientific papers in PubMed citable journals.

Dr Jay Heiken

Dr Atul Shinagare

Prof Bachir Taouli

Honorary Secretary

John Carino

Prof Maarten Lequin

Dr Stephan D. Voss

Prof Thorsten Persigehl

Deputy Editor

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Persigehl will support the Journal Cancer Imaging as Deputy Editor from April 2024. Prof. Persigehl holds the professorship of Oncological Imaging and he is Vice-chair at the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the University Hospital of Cologne. The University Hospital of Cologne with his center of integrated oncology (CIO) is one of the largest comprehensive cancer centers in Germany. As part of his clinical work, he is responsible for oncological imaging in general radiology with special expertise in abdominal imaging. Recently he founded the radiological CIO (radCIO) to reflect the increasing specialization and digitalization in radiology, supported by the EU program EFRE. As part of his scientific focus, Prof. Persigehl is investigating, with funding from German Cancer Aid (DKH), how standardized reports can be created in radiology so that this data is available digitally for clinical patient care and oncological research. On the other hand, he is developing algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically detect and segment lymph nodes in CT images, determine their anatomic localization as part of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Priority Program 2177. Another focus is on developing and testing AI algorithms that automatically search CT images for signs of an infection that could be linked to COVID-19. In the years 2010 and 2011, he stayed as postdoctoral researcher in the oncological research group of Prof. Lawrence Schwartz at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) in New York. Since 2017 he is elected fellow der International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS) and since 2022 master of oncological imaging (ESOI). Prof. Persigehl is former chairman of the Oncological Working Group of the German Society of Radiology (DRG) and speaker of the Oncological Working Group (ABO) of the German Cancer Foundation (DKG). He is currently involved as author and co-author in over 180 research papers, reviews and book chapters.

Prof Annick Van den Abbeele

Professor Van den Abbeele is Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School; Chair Emeritus, Department of Imaging, Founder and Director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, Dana- Farber Cancer Institute; Co-Director of the Tumor Imaging Metrics Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Chief Emeritus, Division of Cancer Imaging, Department of Radiology, Mass General Brigham; and Senior Faculty Scholar, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Mass General Brigham. Professor Van den Abbeele was recently elected the 2021-2022 President of the International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS) and serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the ICIS journal, Cancer Imaging. She is nationally and internationally known for her translational research in molecular imaging, building upon her pioneering work in using imaging to monitor target hit and response to molecularly-targeted therapy and immunotherapy in several cancers. Professor Van den Abbeele is the founder and director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, an integrated clinical and preclinical cancer imaging center co-located with a research-dedicated state-of-the-art cyclotron. She also co-founded and co- directs the Tumor Imaging Metrics Core now established at eight national comprehensive cancer centers. Professor Van den Abbeele has participated in multiple trials testing novel diagnostic and therapeutic agents and helped implement the field of theranostics in multiple cancers. She launched cancer imaging as a new imaging specialty, and the Cancer Imaging Program Fellowship which has grown from one fellow to nine fellows currently who are themselves creating cancer imaging divisions in their own departments. Her major areas of research include translational cancer research using molecular imaging using multidisciplinary integrated pre-clinical and clinical programs, and quantitative tumor imaging metrics. Professor Van den Abbeele is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR) and of the International Cancer Imaging Society (FICIS). She has received several awards, serves on various national and international scientific advisory boards and review panels, NCI program progress review groups, and several local, national and international committees. Professor Van den Abbeele has mentored over 200 trainees; serves as a PhD thesis advisor, reviewer and faculty mentor; has authored and co-authored more than 300 scientific articles, abstracts, educational materials, book chapters; co- edited 2 textbooks; and presented numerous lectures and workshops nationally and internationally.

Prof Mirko D'Onofrio

Dr Khaled Elsayes

Editor-in-Chief

Prof Giuseppe Petralia

Prof Rodney Reznek

Professor Reznek graduated with honours from the University of Cape Town in 1972, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1980 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1990. He is the author or co-author of over 200 publications. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Radiology, Section Editor of European Radiology, Editor of Cancer Imaging and on the editorial board of two other journals. He is co-founder and Past President of the International Cancer Imaging Society. He has served on the Education and Faculty Boards of the Royal College of Radiologists and been chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee. He has held Visiting Professorships in several countries and given eponymous lectures in the USA, China, and the UK.

Prof Marius Mayerhoefer

Prof Bernhard Gebauer

Dr Richard Gore

Prof Wim Oyen

Honorary Treasurer

Professor Oyen’s main research interests are molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy of cancer. He is the (co-)author of more than 700 original science and review articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He is currently actively involved in the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, the European Cancer Organisation, the Biomedical Alliance, and the Dutch Society of Nuclear Medicine. Professor Oyen also serves as Editorial Board member of various professional journal, including The Journal of Nuclear Medicine and The European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

Prof Michael Hofman

Dr Subba Digumarthy

Dr Fiona Fennessy

Prof Wolfgang Schima

Maria Antonietta Bali

Rebecca Wiles

Dr Stefan Diederich

Prof Giovanni Morana