Clinical Radiology Speakers
Dr Nishat Bharwani
BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCP FRCR
Consultant Diagnostic Radiologist with a sub-specialty interest in genitourinary and oncological imaging, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London.
Dr Nishat Bharwani is a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT) and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Dr Bharwani qualified with honours from Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’ Medical School in 2000 and undertook basic medical training in London and Brighton, obtaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. Dr Bharwani completed general radiology training at St George’s Hospital (2003-2008) and a fellowship in body MRI at Barts and The London NHS Trust (2008-2010), becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2008.
Dr Bharwani’s radiological interests include gynaecological imaging, oncological imaging and urological imaging and she has published in these areas. Dr Bharwani was head of specialty for Gynaecological and Urological Imaging at ICHNT between 2017 and 2023.
Dr Bharwani is heavily involved in teaching and until recently served as Training Program Director for radiology trainees on the ICHNT Radiology Training Scheme in London. Dr Bharwani is joint academic training lead for the London School of Radiology, and regularly delivers lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally. Dr Bharwani was an examiner for the Royal College of Radiologists FRCR 2a examination and is now a member of the RCR Learning Committee for clinical radiology and an associate editor for both clinical radiology and cancer imaging.
Dr Katharine Halliday
President of The Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom. Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Nottingham University Hospital.
Dr Katharine Halliday completed her radiology training in London, Perth, Australia, Sheffield and Nottingham. She was appointed to her current role as a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Nottingham University Hospital in 1998 and has a special interest in the imaging of suspected physical abuse, providing opinions on cases from across the UK. Dr Halliday chaired the working group for the updated guidance for imaging in cases of suspected physical abuse in children (2018).
Dr Halliday is the current President of The Royal College of Radiologists (2022-2025) which heads up the organisation that represents clinical radiologists and clinical oncologists. The Royal College of Radiologists’ role is to speak on behalf of the professions to government and fundholders, to provide and supervise education and exams and to set professional standards.
Dr Halliday also chaired the British Society of Paediatric Radiology (2010-16) and was National Clinical Lead for Radiology Getting-It-Right-First-Time (GIRFT) (2017-22), a service improvement program during which she visited 143 UK radiology departments.
Dr Geraldine McGinty
MD MBA FACR
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Department of Radiology and Population Health Sciences Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr Geraldine McGinty completed her medical training in Ireland at the National University and her residency at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr McGinty’s fellowship was in women’s imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She subsequently completed an MBA at Columbia University.
In May 2018, Dr McGinty was elected as the Chair of the ACR’s Board of Chancellors, the first woman to hold this office. Dr McGinty serves as Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr McGinty’s published work has focused on payment models for imaging. Recently she has focused on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on medical imaging and has spoken at the Turing Institute and to the WHO Focus Group on AI in healthcare on this topic. In 2015, Dr McGinty was voted Radiology’s Most Effective Educator by the readers of Aunt Minnie, a radiology news site with more than 140,000 members.
Dr McGinty has more than 20,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter).
Dr Philip Robinson
Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist and Honorary Clinical Associate
Professor Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Leeds, UK.
Dr Philip Robinson is a Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor University of Leeds and Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Centre, UK. Dr Robinson is currently Vice President of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR) (2023-204) and will become President-Elect in 2024. Dr Robinson has previously been President of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists (BSSR) (2018-2020) and Clinical Director for Leeds Radiology (2012-18).
Dr Robinson has authored over 110 peer-reviewed papers, 25 book chapters and one textbook. His main research interests include sports acute and overuse injuries (particularly groin, hip, knee, and ankle pain), clinical effectiveness studies as well as sarcoma imaging and management.
Dr Robinson has been Editor in Chief of Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology (2017-2021) and serves on several academic and educational committees for the NHS England, Royal College of Radiologists, European Society of Radiology, European Society of Skeletal Radiology, and International Skeletal Society. Dr Robinson is a medical adviser to the European/World DP Golf Tour.
Professor Mathias Prokop
Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Mathias Prokop is Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Prof Prokop studied Medicine and Physics in Germany and trained at Hanover Medical School.
Prof Prokop’s career took him to Vienna, Austria and Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he established himself as one of the pioneers of novel CT technologies and lung screening.
More recently, Prof Prokop’s interest shifted to imaging of COVID-19 and artificial Intelligence (AI). His department in Nijmegen focusses on impactful innovations in care and now hosts one of the largest research groups in Europe. Prof Prokop aims to use innovative technology and AI to keep healthcare affordable, with a greater role for medical imaging for earlier diagnoses and precision treatment.
Prof Prokop has recently been elected to join the Board of the European Society of Radiology and become President in 2027.