Prof Paul Keall – Co-Chair, Physics
Paul Keall is a Professor of Medical Physics and the Director of the Image X Institute, University of Sydney. He leads a stellar team engaged in inventing, developing and implementing a portfolio of highly innovative imaging and radiation therapy targeting methods and technologies.
Prof Farshad Faroudi, The Austin Melbourne
Professor Farshad Foroudi is the Director of Radiation Oncology at Austin Health covering a metropolitan site at the Olivia Newton John Cancer Centre in Melbourne and a regional site at the Ballarat Austin Radiation Oncology Centre. At the Olivia Newton John Cancer Centre he obtained funding and oversaw the installation of a 1.5T MR Sim and a MR Linear Accelerator. He is the current chair of the TROG breast working group and has over 180 peer reviewed publications.
Dr Shivani Kumar
Shivani is a Product & Usability Specialist at SeeTreat Medical. Prior to this, Shivani was a clinician researcher at Liverpool Hospital and completed her 2020 PhD on MRI-guided lung cancer radiotherapy.
Dr Michael Jameson
Michael Jameson is the chief physicist for GenesisCare in NSW and adjunct senior lecturer at UNSW. He’s part of a innovative team of physicists supporting advanced radiotherapy across 10 clinics with a wide variety of technologies, including MRL.
Prof Stuart Crozier
Prof Crozier is the director of Biomedical Engineering at University of Queensland. He holds a higher doctorate in engineering for his work in improving the technology of imaging equipment. Stuart was elected as a fellow of the institute of physics (UK) in 2004 and holds many national and international grants relating to medical imaging and medical devices.
Kate Skehan
Kate Skehan is the Senior MRI Radiographer overseeing the dedicated MRI simulator at The Calvary Mater Hospital, Newcastle. Kate enjoys exploring the ever changing scope of practice of the MR Radiographer and other MRS disciplines. She enjoys talking all things MRI safety, guidelines, incident reporting, and legislation- particularly in atypical environments.
Dr Brad Oborn
Dr Brad Oborn is a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong. He is highly active in simulation based research into MRI-guided radiation therapy advancements. His recent research is helping to realise MRI-guided proton therapy at the OncoRay facility in Dresden, Germany.
Dr Trang Pham, co-chair clinical
Dr Trang Pham is a Radiation Oncologist clinician-researcher at Liverpool and Campbelltown Hospitals and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney. Her clinical specialty sites are gastrointestinal, breast, lung and lymphoma. She has a clinical research interest in MRI-guided radiotherapy and functional MRI for response prediction, and has completed a PhD in this area. She is the leader of the South West Sydney Local Health District Imaging in Radiotherapy research stream, and chair of the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) MRinRT Special Interest Group. She is the chief investigator on the Cancer Council NSW Grant ‘VIBRANT Trial: Targeting variations in cancer biology with MRI and radiotherapy using AI’ and the AGITG Innovation Grant ‘MR-STAR Trial: MR-guided stereotactic adaptive radiotherapy for targeting abdominal cancer’.
Prof Peter Metcalfe,
Senior Professor Peter Metcalfe is the Program Director of Medical Physics post graduate degree programs within the school of physics at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has 41 years medical physics experience in the clinic and in academia. His research focus is the implementation of new radiotherapy dosimetry and imaging technology to improve survival and quality of life for cancer patients. He has supervised several PhD students focusing on MR-linac dosimetry and in particular the electron streaming effect. Several of his current students are investigating radiomic features of MRI images.
Dr Dean Cutajar,
Dr Dean Cutajar is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Physics, University of Wollongong. He has 22 years research experience in radiotherapy physics and imaging technologies, and is currently researching detectors for MR integrated radiation treatments. Dean is currently the Audio Visual coordinator for the international Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) with the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS).
Julia Johnson – Event Producer
Julia is the Design & Communications Officer at Image X Institute, where she manages design, content, communications, and events. Through her ongoing work with Boho Interactive, Julia has collaborated on bespoke science communication projects and events for CSIRO, Earth Observatory Singapore, and many Australian universities.
Dr Helen Ball – Finance Manager
Helen is the Operations manager at Image X Institute. Helen obtained her PhD in molecular biology at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and has worked as a researcher in the Discipline of Pathology, University of Sydney. She also provided advice and training for researchers at the School of Medical Sciences, as the facility officer for the Bosch Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Facility.
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