Radiology Across Borders was co-founded in 2010, following the inaugural lecture series in Fiji, Suva. Since then, other Radiologists and clinicians from Australia, New Zealand and around the world have joined our organisation bringing further expertise across a broad range of areas.
We share the same conviction and passion to help developing nations in building their capabilities in Radiology, which is intended to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes.
Founder, Director - Chairman
Suresh is radiologist and a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists with subspecialty interests in oncological, urogenital, gastrointestinal radiology and body and pelvic MRI. He has a Conjoint Lecturer appointment at UNSW and is committed to clinical and radiological research having completed in 2016 a post-graduate degree in clinical trials research at the University of Sydney. He has published in peer review journals in the areas of urological/oncological work and has a special interest in radiological and clinical trials research.
He is on the review board for several local and international journals and is on the RCC subcommittee for the peak research group ANZUP.
Suresh is passionate about philanthropy having founded and is presently chairing Radiology Across Borders. He strongly believes that good education and infrastructure should be made available to all and is committed to seeing this vision come to fruition.
Director - Company Secretary, Operations
Don brings a strong strategic, operational and financial management background to Radiology Across Borders, as well as a strong commitment to education and training. He has 23 years’ experience in Imaging Services, including 17 years as a manager and advisor to various public and private sector institutions in both Australia and the United Kingdom.
Don’s clinical background gives him a strong understanding of the need for a cohesive, collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to healthcare. He has a strong track record in providing high quality imaging services by combining technological innovation with a highly-skilled workforce.
Don also has a personal interest in the differences between health systems globally, in particular how each system tackles public health issues.
Director - Quality, Compliance and Audit
Greg graduated from the University of Sydney with Honours.
After completing his internship in Perth and post-graduate study in London (UK), Greg returned to Sydney where he has been a Radiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) since 1983.
Dr Greg Briggs has co-authored 20 radiological publications throughout his career. His Award winning "Pocket Guide to Chest X-rays" is in its second edition and has now been translated into Chinese.
Greg was a Senior Staff Specialist Radiologist at RNSH and a Partner of North Shore Radiology (North Shore Private Hospital), as well as being a Senior Lecturer at Sydney University and Notre Dame Medical School.
Greg’s subspecialty interests are in Chest Radiology and General Interventional Radiology.
Director - Treasurer/Finance
John completed his undergraduate training at the University of New South Wales, followed by his postgraduate Radiology training at Prince of Wales/Prince Henry Hospitals in Sydney (New South Wales). John then went on to complete his subspecialty Paediatric Imaging Fellowship (Diagnostic and Interventional) at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (Canada).
After completing his Fellowship, John worked as a Consultant at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan (USA), before relocating back to Sydney with his family to become a Staff Specialist at both Sydney Children’s Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital.
At present, John is the Director of Medical Imaging at both Prince of Wales Hospital and Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick. John has demonstrated a career-long commitment to educating Medical Students and Registrars.
Director - AMSIG collaboration/Co clinical lead diploma
Dr Salman Ansari is a final year radiology registrar at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney (RPA). Salman completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales medical school, and undertook Radiology training at Nepean and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals.
He completed the RANZCR Fellowship Examinations in 2013, and is currently undertaking a 6 month rotation in Breast Imaging. Salman also has an interest in Musculoskeletal Imaging.
Director - Clinical Engagement
Originally from New Zealand, Trina completed a Diploma in Medical Radiation Technology in Christchurch, NZ, before traveling to B.C., Canada where she obtained a BSc (Hons) from Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada as a foreign student.
Trina went on to graduate from the University of British Columbia Medical School, Vancouver, Canada, and to attain Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Diagnostic Radiology at UBC. Subsequently, she undertook a Fellowship in Breast Imaging at Royal Perth Hospital, WA, Australia, returning to work in Canada for 2 years before undertaking an Interventional Radiology Fellowship at Fremantle Hospital, WA, Australia.
Trina has an interest in registrar education, having recently relinquished the role of Director of Training at Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA, Australia and now travels and works locum positions. Her work interests include Breast Imaging and General Radiology/intervention.
Director - Sponsor engagement/ sponsorships
Dr Glenn McNally is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist based in Sydney and a sub-specialist in Obstetric and Gynaecologic ultrasound. He is currently the Director of Medical Imaging at the Royal Hospital for Women (Sydney) and a Partner in Obstetric and Gynaecologic Imaging, a private obstetric and gynaecologic ultrasound practice also based in Sydney.
Through the Department of Medical Imaging at the Royal Hospital for Women, Glenn assists with the training of Registrars, Fellows, Medical Students and Sonographers.
Glenn's specialty training was undertaken in Australia (Sydney) and Scotland (Glasgow) and his imaging training was undertaken at he Royal Hospital for Women (Sydney) and in Canada (Vancouver).
Glenn has served for many years on the Councils of both the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG). He has served as President of ASUM and Vice President of the RANZCOG.
Glenn has also served on the Council of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) for a 6-year period. During his time with the WFUMB, Glenn participated in the establishment of Centres of Excellence in Education in developing countries. As part of that program Glenn has taught in Bangladesh, the Philippines and Thailand.
Company Secretary
Katja has an extensive background in communication, strategy and governance and has worked in the health sector over the past decade.
She was responsible for stakeholder relations for the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission before founding Health Care Innovate, an Australian based company that uses digital and video technology to improve communication flows in health care, particularly between clinicians.
Co lead Imaging Technologistsʼ Program
Trina brings a strong strategic and marketing focus to RAB, having over 20 years’ experience in both Radiology and corporate health. Trina loved the challenge of developing strong and strategic relationships across a very broad medical, scientific, and corporate community and is now able to leverage these strong relationships she has developed, for RAB.
Trina began her career as a radiographer in Adelaide and then in London, where she was very fortunate to be introduced to MRI at London’s 1st private MRI practice in the pioneering years of MRI. This launched Trina’s career with Philips and Siemens, and culminated in Trina holding a senior MRI positon for Siemens USA in 1998-2001.
Trina saw the light (!) and retuned to Sydney and worked for Mayne Health in a national BDM role, at an interesting time where corporatized health was on the ascendancy. Trina placed utmost importance of service delivery across the 200 plus practices, and her mantra was to empower the staff to deliver positive customer experiences.
In the past 8 years Trina has played her most important role as mother, whilst still consulting for various health entities and taking on the enviable task of not-for-profit work. Trina feels privileged to have been given the opportunity to join RAB, and help improve the knowledge of Radiology in our neighboring countries. This completes the loop for Trina being able to give back to an industry that has taught her so much.
Co ordination - RAB Certificate
Dr. Bruce Forster is Professor and Head at the University of British Columbia, Department of Radiology, and Director of the UBC, Office of Academic Innovation. He was recently the Regional Department Head and Medical Director, Diagnostic Imaging, Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care and Director of Diagnostic Imaging for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics/Paralympics Games.
As an Associate Member of the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, he has been involved in the clinical, education, and research aspects of sports imaging for over 25 years. Dr. Forster has delivered over 350 invited lectures, many internationally, and has served as a Visiting Professor in Canada, the United States, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, South America, Russia, and the Middle East. He is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and 130 educational exhibits, and has served as President of the Pacific Northwest Radiology Society, and on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Radiologists and is currently on the Board of Directors and is President of the Canadian Radiologic Foundation.
Dr. Forster was Lead Physician for ‘Choosing Wisely Medical Imaging’ one of the most comprehensive appropriateness initiatives in the Province, and organized and taught at the CAR/CRF/UBC Radiology Leadership and Business Course, in collaboration with the UBC Sauder School of Business. In April 2019, he was the recipient of the CAR Gold Medal.
Co ordination - RAB Certificate
After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Biology the University of Victoria, Dr. Petter Tonseth completed medical school at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1988. The following decade involved working as a general practitioner in various
locations including many coastal BC communities, the Canadian arctic and Australia as well as acting as medical officer on the tall ship Concordia, crossing the
Atlantic with students completing their secondary education.
When in Canada, he and his wife Karen lived aboard their 34 foot sailboat while preparing it to sail offshore, which they did in1997, spending two seasons in the Sea of Cortez.
In 1999, the opportunity to enter the UBC Radiology residency brought Dr. Tonseth and his wife back via Hawaii and they continued to live aboard in Vancouver while Dr. Tonseth completed the UBC dual radiology/nuclear medicine program.
After finishing residency in 2004, he joined NightHawk Radiology Services, providing
teleradiology support to multiple sites across the United States from Australia.
He returned to BC to take up a full time position in the Functional Imaging
Department at the BC Cancer Agency in 2011, reporting oncologic PET/CT, and more recently began working regularly at the Nuclear and Molecular Medicine Department in St.John’s Newfoundland.
Dr. Tonseth holds academic appointments at both UBC and Memorial University
and is the Director of the UBC International Outreach Program and Education Lead for Undergraduate Ultrasound at UBC.
Project lead TIDES
Glyn is a radiologist based in Sydney, Australia and has completed a musculoskeletal MRI fellowship in the USA.
He has been a member of Radiology Across Borders since 2015 and has delivered lecture series in Vanuatu and Samoa.
He is the project lead and clinical lead of RAB's "Teleradiology in Disaster Events and Second Opinions" (TIDES) program that launched in Samoa in 2019.
Projects
Matt completed undergraduate medical training at the University of Auckland in 2009, and undertook radiology training in both Tauranga and Auckland, New Zealand, being awarded FRANZCR in 2016.
He completed a breast imaging fellowship with BreastScreen Aotearoa NZ in 2016, and in 2017 moved to Perth, Australia, to undertake a musculoskeletal radiology fellowship. He then worked full time in private practice in Perth, before returning to Tauranga in 2019, where he works as a radiologist at Bay Radiology and Tauranga Hospital.
Matt has subspecialty interests in musculoskeletal, spine and breast imaging and intervention. He is also the current co-director of training for registrars in radiology at Tauranga Hospital. In addition, Matt is passionate about radiology education and healthcare improvement in developing countries, having spent several months in South-East Asia.
Co clinical lead diploma
Jash studied medicine at the University of Auckland and completed Radiology training in Auckland in 2014 after completing advanced training positions in body MRI and Neuroradiology. He completed a fellowship in Oncologic and Molecular imaging at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, USA and returned to New Zealand in 2016.
Jash is actively involved in Registrar teaching and training. He is chair of the Clinical Radiology Curriculum assessment committee (CRCAC) for RANZCR and is the incoming RANZCR Deputy Chief Censor. Jash works in both public and private practice in New Zealand is the Deputy Clinical Director at his public Radiology department. He has always had strong interests in developing world medicine, starting the Medical Students for Global Awareness (MSGA) group at the University of Auckland.
Projects
Dr Emmeline Lee is a graduate of the University of Western Australia. After internship and residency, she completed a Diploma of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, before completing her training as a Radiologist in Perth, WA. She then completed fellowships in Obstetric and Gynecological, and Breast Imaging. She is a partner in a specialist Women's Imaging practice in Perth - Western Ultrasound for Women. She also works part-time in the public sector, and is a consultant at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and BreastScreenWA.
Emmeline is a examiner for the RANZCR Part 2 exams and is a passionate about teaching Radiology registrars and fellows. Emmeline is currently the Expert Advisor on Obstetrics for the Radiology reference website, radiopaedia.org.
Vital Co-Lead
Cathy Qualified as a Diagnostic Radiographer in 1982. In 1997 she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Ultrasound, and is currently working as a Chief Sonographer with HIS, and a Tutor Sonographer at AIHE.
Cathy has enjoyed a long career in medical imaging which has included working as a managing Sonographer for a large corporate group, conference convener, tutor Sonographer and her most fulfilling role to date, working as a Volunteer Sonographer with RAB.
Cathy is passionate about improving the inequality of health care world wide and is committed to providing Ultrasound Services through Radiology Across Border’s Vital programme.
Cambodia lead/site visit organisation
Dr Mitchell is a half time staff Radiologist at the Gold Coast University Hospital and half time in Private Practice with Qscan on the Gold Coast. He is practising General Radiology with an interest in Abdominal Imaging.
Dr Mitchell spent 2 weeks in Phnom Penh at the Sihanouk Hospital Centre of Hope and found the experience very rewarding. He went with a view that there would be a lot to learn and that proved to be the case.
After many tutorials with the local Radiology Trainees, and many conversations Dr Mitchell now believes that RAB can be very helpful and influential in Cambodian Radiology. He would be keen to assist with developing connections and systems and visits to assist there development of Radiology.
Co lead Film Bank project
Dr Chien Ho is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists and an accredited Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) supervising radiologist.
Upon completion of his radiology training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Dr Ho undertook advanced training at three London hospitals: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and University College Hospital. During this time he completed an MRI/musculoskeletal fellowship and also spent time as a staff specialist.
He is currently a consultant radiologist for Lake Imaging and Executive Director for Integral Diagnostics. Dr Ho has considerable experience across all radiology modalities with a special interest in musculoskeletal and body imaging, including prostate MRI and Cardiac CT.
Co lead Film Bank
Dr Katerina Mastrocostas is a Staff Specialist Radiologist at Concord Repatriation General Hospital and Consultant Radiologist with Alfred Medical Imaging.
After completing Radiology training at Concord and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals in Sydney, she attained Cross-Sectional Imaging and Abdominal Imaging Fellowships at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Her principle clinical areas of practice are oncologic imaging, the gastrointestinal tract, abdominal imaging, and neuroradiology. Her research interests are in health care efficacy and clinical governance.
Co lead Radiologistsʼ Teleconference Program
Denny studied Radiology at the University of Sydney, Australia and his currently the chief Radiographer at I-med Radiology in Hurstville.
He has a strong passion in radiology technology. Denny brings a technological and innovative mindset to Radiology Across Borders. His also very passionate about improving the healthcare systems in countries that need it the most.
Projects
Tony is a medical graduate of the University of Sydney and is currently a senior staff specialist in Radiology in the department of Radiology at Westmead Hospital. He completed his radiology registrar training at Westmead Hospital, followed by a postgraduate fellowship in Musculoskeletal and Body MRI at Northwestern University in Chicago Illinois, and later Postgraduate Scholarship in clinical and research musculoskeletal imaging at University of California in San Diego (UCSD).
He is director of MRI at Westmead Hospital, and coordinates medical school teaching in Medical Imaging at the University of the Sydney Western Clinical School. He has been on numerous educational committees of the RANZCR and a senior examiner for the Part II exams for many years. He set up the first fully dedicated MRI postgraduate fellowship in Australia in 1997 providing subspecialty MRI training to over 25 local postgraduate fellows. He is dedicated to teaching medical students, registrars, and paramedical staff, and has hosted in the MRI unit numerous visiting local radiologist specialists and several international radiologists from Asia and the Middle East through WHO initiatives. In 2013 he was visiting professor in the department of Radiology St Luke’s Hospital Quezon City the Philippines and later an invited speaker of the CT/MRI Society of the Philippines at the 2013 Joint Annual Convention with Philippines Society of Ultrasound.
He is pleased to know there are many like minded radiologists involved in regional outreach programs and is looking forward to participating in the great work done by Radiology Across Borders.
Projects
Dr Catherine Mandel works in Melbourne. Her general radiology training was in Melbourne after which she trained in neuroradiology in the UK. After several years working as a consultant neuroradiologist she returned to Australia.
Catherine trained as a company director with the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is currently undertaking a qualification in higher education learning and teaching.
Catherine has been a councillor for RANZCR for six years and is a member of many RANZCR committees. She is the Secretary-General of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Neuroradiology. Catherine joined the Board of the AMA Victoria in 2016.
Other roles included being the clinician lead for a radiology incident reporting database (www.raer.org.au) and co-organising the series of Australasian Conferences on Error in Medical Imaging.
Research interests include neuro-onocology and patient safety.
Catherine also works in medical defence, teaches radiology registrars at the University of Melbourne and has held clinical appointments in public and private practice in Australia and the UK and at Swinburne University of Technology.
Co-ordinator - RAB Education
Ailsa is a registered nuclear medicine technologist with many years of clinical and management experience. During this period, Ailsa spent time as a committee member of her professional body and served a number of years as a board member of the Medical Radiation Practitioners Board of Victoria.
Ailsa next had the exciting opportunity to develop and implement an improved training and education program for graduate nuclear medicine technologists in Victoria. This opened doors to several years working in cancer services projects in the public hospital sector.
Ailsa now coordinates the program for radiation oncology trainees in Victoria and Tasmania and is delighted to be able to combine that part-time role with her part-time work for the RAB Certificate project, thus completing the trifecta in medical radiations.
PNG lead
Dr Mansberg completed his radiology training at St Vincent’s Hospital in 1995 and a 2 year Nuclear Medicine Fellowship at the Prince of Wales Hospital in 1997.
He is a dual qualified radiologist and nuclear medicine specialist at Southern Radiology Sydney and manages the nuclear medicine department at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital in Randwick. Dr Mansberg has published over 30 articles in medical journals and has been a lecturer for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists training programme, University of New South Wales and the Cabrini Institute Melbourne.
His particular areas of interest are musculoskeletal, oncology and cross sectional imaging correlation including SPECT/CT and PET/CT.
VITAL
Qualifying as a Sonographer at the University of Sydney in 2008, Rebecca currently works as a Practice Manger in Sydney’s Inner West.
She has a keen interest in both Women’s and Paediatric Imaging and has presented training courses in both Samoa and Vietnam. She has assisted in National conference’s and has published a case study in ASA magazine.
Clinical Prof. Richard Mendelson
Richard Mendelson was born and educated in the UK, obtained his FRCR in 1983 and immigrated with his wife, Christine, and two sons to Perth, Western Australia, in 1986. He obtained his FRANZCR in 1993.
From 1986 until his retirement from clinical practice in 2015, he worked full-time as a consultant with a strong sub-speciality interest in abdominal imaging at Royal Perth Hospital. He is now an emeritus consultant radiologist at that hospital, and currently Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia and previously at the Notre Dame University.
Richard has authored or co-authored 8 books or book chapters and over 60 papers and editorials in addition to being a reviewer for multiple national and international journals.
He was founding chairman of the Abdominal Radiology Group of Australia and New Zealand (ARGANZ) and is an Honorary Fellow of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. He was awarded the Roentgen Medal by RANZCR in 2013 and Life Membership in 2014.
During his career he has been a senior examiner for RANZCR and for several years was chairman of the MCQ panel.
He has a career-long interest in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and in the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging, being founding Editor of ‘Diagnostic Imaging Pathways’ (an on-line clinical decision support and educational tool for referrers to diagnostic imaging) that has achieved national and international acclaim.
Dr Sohrabh Memon
Dr Sohrabh Memon is from New Zealand, and currently practicing as a radiologist in both the public and private setting in Coffs Harbour, NSW. He completed radiology training (FRANZCR) in Auckland (2012) and is fellowship trained in diagnostic and therapeutic neuroradiology (Vancouver, Canada, 2014).
A keen interest in learning about other places and an enjoyment of teaching brings him to Radiology Across Borders.
Dr Parveen Sidhu
Parveen completed her undergraduate medical training at the University of New South Wales in 2008. She is currently completing her 4th year of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She recently completed her Part 2 examinations in May 2015.
She is interested in pursuing fellowships in Women's radiology. Since the exams are now behind her, she wants to expand her interests in teaching medical students, registrars and anyone really.
Parveen grew up in Malaysia which is where her parents still live. She hopes to be part of the expansion of Radiology Across Borders into Asian developing nations.
Outside Radiology, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Rahul and her interests in good food and wine, dance and hopes to now increase the time she spends pedalling in lycra on the roads.
Luke Porra
Education Services Product Manager ANZ
Siemens Healthineers
An experienced educator, Luke currently works with medical imaging departments and organisations to deliver better education programs that improve both patient outcomes and department productivity.
With a long history of working in the hospital & health care industry both in Australia and the UK, Luke’s skills include clinical research, teaching, medical ultrasound, CT, X-ray, and angiography. He has a Master’s in Medical Ultrasound and a particular interest in liver ultrasound including liver elastography.
Luke is on the organising committee for the ‘RAB Technologist Teleconference’ series and is committed to help deliver quality education to remote regions around the globe.
Dr Peter Dixon
Originally from England, where he went to medical school at King’s College Hospital, London, Peter came to New Zealand as a junior doctor. He spent several years as a Surgical SHO and registrar before training in Radiology at Oxford, UK. He began as a consultant Radiologist at Palmerston North Hospital, New Zealand in 1990. Also in private practice, as Clinical Director at Broadway Radiology, he has a wide range across the specialty of radiology.
He has many years of hands-on experience in Ultrasound, especially Musculoskeletal diagnosis and image-guided treatment. He is also involved with breast screening and biopsy, and interventional radiology.
He has twice been a member of a surgical camp, in rural Nepal with the International Nepal Fellowship, providing ultrasound diagnoses to a team of New Zealand and Nepali surgeons in collaboration with local services.
Melissa Miller
Melissa commenced her career as a Nurse and has spent the past 14 years in a variety of roles across Melbourne and Sydney within Radiology including Sales Management and Product Management. More recently Melissa worked as a Medical Liaison assisting with the growth and marketing strategy of a private Radiology practice in Sydney, while also enjoying her most important role as mother to two adventurous daughters.
Melissa has enjoyed cementing strong relationships across Radiology, General Practice and multiple specialty areas of healthcare along with stakeholder management at large multinational companies.
At present Melissa is working in a business development role in Radiology alongside her unique start up in Healthcare Events and Marketing which has an important focus on providing organisation of quality outreach education events to remote communities in need. Melissa has most recently steered and helped set-up a new organisation early this year to help raise the profile and awareness of Bladder Cancer, BEAT Bladder Cancer Australia.
Melissa feels privileged to be offered the opportunity to provide pro bono marketing project assistance to Radiology Across Borders, a charity Melissa has been watching in awe since it’s inception. Melissa enjoys the benefits of Philanthropy in creating big impact and creating positive change to the lives of people in the nations and thanks the extended RAB team for the opportunity to give back.
Anthony Yacoub
Anthony commenced his career as a Medical Radiation Practitioner in the community and private hospital sector before embracing various clinical and operational leadership positions in Radiology. He has experience as a Chief Radiographer, Area Manager and Project Manager in corporate organisations. In October 2019, he was appointed as the General Manager of Carlisle Health, a national radiology group.
Anthony has been involved in corporate acquisition, integration and operational auditing projects; including establishing greenfield clinics.
Since 2016, Anthony has been affiliated with the University of Sydney as a Clinical Associate Lecturer and as a casual Consultant Academic (2019).
In addition to his professional and academic life, Anthony volunteers his time to numerous community, charitable and not-for-profit organisations in various capacities; as a chairperson, governing board member, director and advisor. Anthony joined Radiology Across Borders (RAB) in 2019, where he assists in the TIDEs Project.
Dr Henry Knipe
Dr Henry Knipe is a general radiologist working in Melbourne and Geelong at Lake Imaging, part of the Integral Diagnostics group.
He received undergraduate degrees in Medical Science and Medicine/Surgery from the University of Tasmania, and his Master of Medicine (Radiology) from the University of Melbourne. Henry completed his radiology training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
He has been a managing editor at Radiopaedia.org since 2014, working to increase the global availability of open access radiology education resources.
Dr Arjuna Somanathan
Dr Arjuna Somanathan is currently practicing as a radiologist in both the public and private setting in Perth, at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Perth Radiological Clinic.
He graduated from UNSW in 2010 and completed radiology training in Sydney at St George Hospital in 20.
He has an interest in cardiothoracic and abdominal radiology as well as an interest in global health, having completed a Masters in Public Health (International Health) at UNSW.
Dr Ross Copping
Ross is a final year radiology registrar, based at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. He completed his FRANZCR fellowship exams in 2019.
His interests include interventional radiology, abdominal imaging and oncology. Ross has a passion for teaching and education, and the power it has to make positive change in the developing world.
Dr Mark Fiorentino
Mark graduated in medicine from the University of Malta in 2002 and subsequently moved to Australia in 2007.
He trained as a radiologist at the Royal Hobart Hospital and obtained dual fellowships with the Royal College of Radiologists (UK) and the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Radiologists. He obtained further MRI training at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle where he currently resides and holds a Senor Staff Specialist position. He is also active in private practice.
Mark has subspeciality interest and training in Neuroradiology and Head and Neck Radiology. Recently he has obtained the European Diploma in Neuroradiology.
He is also a Director of Training for the registrars, and oversees undergraduate medical student teaching in radiology.
Nadine Thompson
Nadine graduated from the Universtiy of Sydney with first class honours. She completed her clinical training at Westmead Hospital where she specialised in CT and progressed to manage the general x-ray and fluoroscopy sections of the Radiology Department. Nadine was appointed to the position of Chief Radiographer at Sydney Adventist Hospital in November 2016.
Nadine has completed a Masters in Education, Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education and Master of Health Management. Nadine also holds the appointment of clinical lecturer for the Medical School at the University of Sydney.
Nadine is the chair of the Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT) Advanced Practice Panel and will be awarded fellowship of the ASMIRT in March 2018.
Dr Rennae Thiessen
Rennae is a Canadian born and trained thoracic radiologist who has been practicing in Christchurch NZ since 2012.
After spending a year of her undergrad studying in Florence, Italy, Rennae caught the travel-bug and has taken several opportunities to study, work and volunteer abroad during her medical education. Following her radiology residency at the University of Ottawa, she had the great privilege to train under Nestor Muller for her Thoracic Radiology Fellowship at Vancouver General Hospital.
A highlight of her post-fellowship work experience was a two-month deployment with the Canadian Armed Forces to the Multinational Trauma Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Rennae is currently the Clinical Lead for Thoracic Radiology at Christchurch Hospital, Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Otago and is an Executive Member of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Thoracic Radiology.
Dr Lisa Tarlinton
Dr Lisa Tarlinton is a dual qualified Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Specialist.
After graduating with Honours in Medicine and Surgery from the University of New South Wales in 2002, Dr Tarlinton completed Radiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Nuclear Medicine training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney.
She received the RANZCR 2012 Thomas Baker Prize to pursue fellowship training in Nuclear Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2012/2013 and subspecialty fellowship training in Body Oncology Imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in 2013/2014. Whilst at MSKCC, she also undertook elective training in Oncology Neuroradiology, and Oncology Head and Neck Imaging.
Dr Tarlinton has particular subspecialty interests in PET/CT and Oncology Body Imaging, including body and pelvic MRI, CT and ultrasound.
Dr Tarlinton also has a strong interest in leadership and management. She graduated with an EMBA from the University of Sydney in 2011, spent 3 years as Director of Diagnostic Services at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, and is now the Clinical Director at SAN Radiology, Sydney.
In addition to being the Lead Radiologist to Vietnam for Radiology Across Borders, Dr Tarlinton is also actively involved in The Scot’s College Indigenous Education program and helps fund a 6-year student scholarship.
Dr. Tarlinton is married to Clive and has two sons, Charlie (5 years), and Freddie (5 months).
Patrick Nielsen
Patrick Nielsen qualified as a sonographer at Queensland University of Technology in 1995 and currently works at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and teaches in ultrasound at Australian Institute of Healthcare Education, specialising in general, vascular and musculoskeletal ultrasound.
He has also taught ultrasound at travelling workshops throughout Australia and presented training courses in Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea.
Patrick has been part of the Radiology Across Borders Vital Projects in Samoa, Fiji and Vietnam. He enjoys the collaborative and continual learning challenges offered every day in ultrasound.
Dr Arunmina Gupta
Arunima is one of the founders and managing director of Wollongong Diagnostics. She is a full-time consultant radiologist and has been practicing radiology since 2001 in India, middle east and Australia. She has a keen interest in head and neck radiology and abdominal radiology. She is the mother of two kids and is locally based. She loves music, Bollywood dancing, trekking and travelling.
She is a proud member of RAB, supporting our not-for-profit organization that is committed to better education and training of radiologists in Asia Pacific countries. She has been an IMG assessor for the royal college of radiologists and HMO in Wollongong Hospital. She believes “If you don’t fight for what you want, then don’t cry for what you lost” – Srimad Bhagavad Gita.
Dr Barnaby Clarke
Musculoskeletal and General Radiologist
Auckland Radiology Group & North Shore Hospital
Barnaby graduated from Auckland University School of Medicine in 1999 and completed his radiology training in Auckland.
He was a fellow in MRI at Middlemore Hospital in 2006 and contributed to research papers with the Auckland University Bone Research Group on gout and rheumatoid arthritis imaging. He was the Auckland Radiology Group musculoskeletal fellow in 2007. Two additional years were spent in Brisbane gaining further experience in musculoskeletal imaging and MRI.
He has held a consultant position at North Shore Hospital since 2010 with responsibilities in musculoskeletal and general radiology, non-vascular interventional radiology and cardiac CT; as well as formal registrar teaching. He is a partner at Auckland Radiology Group with areas of expertise including orthopaedic and sports medicine and image guided spinal and musculoskeletal procedures.
In November 2019 with Dr Paul O’Connell he was a speaker for AMSIG in the RAB / AMSIG Cambodia meeting, held in conjunction with the Cambodian association of Radiology.
Dr Ben Reidy
Ben Reidy is an Interventional Radiologist at Royal North Shore, Liverpool and Orange Hospitals around Sydney, Australia.
His Practice covers trauma, vascular, hepatobiliary, urological, oncological and pain management. Ben has been a previous RAB speaker in Hanoi, Vietnam in October 2018.
Prof Parm Naidoo
Professor Parm. Naidoo is the Clinical Director of Radiology at the Royal Hobart Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Radiology at the University of Tasmania.
After completing his medical degree at the University of Melbourne, he undertook his Radiology training and MRI fellowship at Monash Medical Centre - now Monash Health.
He practised as a staff specialist at Monash since 2000, and was Director of Radiology at the networks second largest campus at Dandenong from 2003-2018.
Clinically, he has a number of subspecialty interests including Chest imaging, Body imaging and Neuroradiology, MSK and Intervention.
Previously holding joint appointments as Clinical Associate Professor at both the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and head of Imaging Education at Monash, he is a passionate and accomplished educator, having published extensively and lectured nationally and internationally.
He is the founder and convenor of the Radiodiagnosis Review course – the premier radiology pre-fellowship training course in Australasia.
Dr Darrilyn Greenberg
In Auckland Darrilyn helped set up the Breast Screening Program (BreastScreen Aotearoa), working as the lead clinical radiologist during the set up phase and setting many of the clinical protocols.
She travelled over New Zealand overseeing the clinical assessment clinics She became recognised as an expert in breast imaging. She was also involved in a specialist Women’s Imaging Practice in Hamilton. After 10 years in New Zealand Darrilyn moved to Sydney and has been working at Connect Radiololgy for the past five years. She is an editor of the Woman's imaging section of the Australian and New Zealand Radiology Journal (JMIRO) .
Darrilyn’s radiological skills and interests include breast imaging and intervention, women’s imaging, body imaging, interventional procedures and musculoskeletal injections, ultrasound and MRI.
Dr Michael Curley
Dr Michael Curley is a final year radiology registrar at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Brisbane (RBWH). Michael attended the University of Queensland Medical School and undertook clinical training at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (QLD).
He completed the RANZCR Fellowship Examinations in 2013 and is developing interests in General, Musculoskeletal and Interventional Radiology.
Dr Ryan Shulman
Dr Ryan Shulman completed a fellowship at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto specialising in musculoskeletal imaging.
He subsequently divided time between the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and University Hospital Southampton, working in cardiothoracic imaging where he was awarded the European Diploma of Cardiac Radiology.
He has co-authored chapters in orthopaedic, musculoskeletal and cardiac imaging textbooks, and in 2015, was the recipient of the European Society of Radiology's Albert L. Baert Editorial Fellowship.
Dr Shulman currently works as a consultant radiologist at Queensland X-Ray, and staff specialist at Gold Coast University Hospital.
Additional interests include teaching, research and forensic radiology.
Dr Debra Meerkotter
Debra Meerkotter is a breast radiologist who works in Launceston, Tasmania.
Debra completed her medical degree and specialist training as a radiologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She moved from South Africa to Tasmania in 2008.
She works for I-Med and Breast Screen Tasmania, allowing her to work in both the diagnostic and screening settings.
Dr Suhrid P. Lodh
Dr Suhrid P. Lodh completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of New South Wales in 2006. He trained in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital between 2009 and 2014. Inspired by the therapeutic potential of the subspecialty, he completed a fellowship in Interventional Radiology at the Canberra Hospital in 2014.
His primary interests are in Interventional Oncology and White matter diseases of the brain. He is currently commencing a Masters Degree in Immunology and a distance diploma in Nano-medicine.
Suhrid is an Interventional Radiology Staff Specialist at Liverpool Hospital (Sydney). He holds an academic appointment with the UNSW Clinical school at Liverpool Hospital and has formerly held teaching appointments at the University of Wollongong and University of Sydney (RNSH). He has also been actively involved in the education of Radiology registrars, Junior medical staff, radiographers and nursing staff since 2010.
Raised by his mother, Ida, in Singapore, Suhrid's roots are in Asia and he hopes to be part of an expansion of Radiology Across Borders into Asian developing nations.
His non-academic time is spent with his amazing wife, Natalie, his little boy, Jonah, and his love of music and wood-work.
Asanka Wijetunga
Asanka is a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Philosophy (Medicine) student at The University of Sydney, holding an undergraduate degree in anatomy and immunology. Having been extensively involved in medical student society administration in the fields of advocacy, event management and sponsorship for over five years, Asanka is excited to apply the skills he’s picked up to broaden the reach of RAB’s inspiring work through improved event planning, marketing and social media.
In his spare time, Asanka enjoys going to the beach, hunting around Sydney for good food and coffee, and spending quality time with family and friends.
Dr Felix Patterson
Felix completed medical school, junior doctor years and Radiology training in Adelaide including rural work in both South Australia and Darwin.
He has an interest in Oncology and is Dual trained as a Nuclear Medicine Specialist.
He also enjoys travelling with his wife, sailing and Kite boarding.
Dr Murthy Chennapragada
Dr Murthy Chennapragada is dual fellowship trained interventional and paediatric radiologist based in Sydney, Australia.
Murthy graduated with MBBS from India. He received basic radiology training in India. His specialty training included fellowships in Paediatric radiology at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia, and in vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is a Senior Staff specialist radiologist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and a Visiting Interventional Radiologist at Gosford hospital. He is also part of Sydney Interventional Radiology Associates, a private Interventional radiology group in Sydney.
Murthy is one of the very few specialists in Australia with the unique training and experience in treating both adults and children using interventional radiology. His areas of special interest include paediatric abdominal imaging, paediatric interventions in particular paediatric liver transplant related interventions, renal vascular interventions, dialysis access interventions and treatment of vascular malformations.
Murthy has published widely in Radiology journals and is a regular invited speaker at national and international radiology conferences. He enjoys teaching medical students and registrars and is a regular contributor to Gosford Mock Vivas for radiology registrars sitting the part 2 FRANZCR examination. He currently holds academic position with the University of Sydney as a Clinical Senior Lecturer and supervises MD students.
Murthy is a member of RSNA, SIR, CIRSE and serves on the executive committees of ANZ. Society of paediatric radiology (ANZSPR) and the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology (SPIR).
Michael Fuller
Michael is the clinical tutor radiographer at Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia. He has an interest in trauma radiography, image interpretation and radiography clinical education.
Michael has presented many papers and workshops at conferences in Australia and was a keynote speaker at the ASMIRT conference in Wellington , New Zealand in 2015. He is a former consultant radiographer to Papua New Guinea under the Australian Commonwealth government’s AusAID program and a principal contributor to Wikiradiography. Michael has received various awards and scholarships including the ASMIRT International Travel Scholarship in 2012.
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner graduated DMU (General) with ASUM in the early 1990s and has had a keen interest in education and training of all aspects ultrasound ever since. As such, Jennifer has worked with ASUM as an Examiner and Presenter for the ASUM DMU course for many years.
After completing a Masters of Medical Ultrasound (with Distinction) majoring in MSK ultrasound, Jennifer has continued to provide training and education for a various groups including ASUM, ASA, RACGP and ACRRM. She has presented in Australia, New Zealand, and in Cambodia as part of the ASUM Outreach & RAB programmes.
Jennifer was a member of the Medical Team providing Ultrasound services at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Jennifer is Education Manager and Tutor at the Australian Institute of Ultrasound on the Gold Coast and a Senior Sonographer at Qscan Group (Gold Coast).
Her current interests include all aspects of MSK, POCUS, training and education in Ultrasound, and in research of developing technologies for use within various medical specialties.
Dr Barnabas Bako
Dr Barnabas Bako has extensive expertise in interventional and vascular radiology, having two fellowships in Interventional Radiology, one at Monash Medical Centre, Victoria and the other with The Canberra Hospital, ACT. Barnabas has been a Visiting Medical Officer at Central and Eastern Breast Screen and VMO Interventional Radiologist at The Canberra Hospital. He has wide general experience and takes a special interest in Dental Radiology.
Barnabas has Level 2 certification in CT Coronary Cardiology and has been a Member of the North American Society of Cardiac Imaging since 2004. He is responsible for the group intervention protocol and is often called upon to do the impossible in relation to interventional procedures. Barnabas has over many years presented at the Annual Vascular Meeting for the Society of Vascular Surgeons.
Dr Nicholas Trost
Nicholas Trost is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. After completing radiology training with the Auckland DHB and the Alfred Hospital Melbourne, he undertook fellowships at the Hammersmith Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital in London specialising in Neuroradiology and MRI. He held the position of consultant radiologist at the Hammersmith before returning to Australia in 1996. In 1998, Nicholas was appointed consultant radiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and in 2006 Director of its MRI Centre.
In 2005, Nicholas obtained the European Certificate in Neuroradiology and in 2006 obtained the International Diploma in Neurovascular Disease (University of Paris X1). Sabbaticals in 2006 and 2013 in Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand furthered his experience in advanced neuroimaging techniques.
Nicholas completed the Master of Public Health, specializing in Global Health, at the University of Melbourne in 2015. During this time, he held attachments with Save the Children in Myanmar and the WHO in Thailand. In 2009, he evaluated nutritional problems in hill tribe villagers in Northern Thailand with the Mirror Foundation.
Nicholas is passionate about improving the health and well-being of people in the region through education and upskilling of local practitioners. He has given lectures and tutorials in Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar, and held discussions radiology groups on providing more personalized support through short term placements within practices and second opinions through teleradiology.
Dr Phil Chan
Dr Philip Chan underwent his radiology training at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne and received his FRANZCR in 2018. He has completed further subspecialty training in Interventional Radiology at Monash Health, Melbourne and at Vancouver General and University of British Columbia Hospitals in Vancouver, Canada, where he has developed special interests in Interventional Oncology, Vascular Anomalies and intervention in fertility medicine.
He takes an active role in academic radiology, with publications in his portfolio as well as presentations at national and international conferences. He has received scholarships, college funding, travel grants and prizes for his research.
Outside work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and toddlers and, if time permits, enjoys the outdoors.
Dr Clinton Pinto
Clinton Pinto is a musculoskeletal radiologist. He studied medicine and trained in radiology in Auckland. His two-year fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging with a specific focus on the imaging of bone and soft tissue tumours was at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, home of the Dutch Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Commission.
Clinton is a musculoskeletal radiologist at Auckland Radiology Group and has a half-time consultant appointment at Middlemore Hospital. He maintains an active role in teaching radiology trainees and medical students. His other professional interests are in mentoring, environmental sustainability and regeneration - especially in respect to the provision of healthcare, musculoskeletal and sports imaging and MRI, with particular interest in bone and soft tissue tumours. He is a member of the New Zealand Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Registry Panel based at Middlemore Hospital.
Prof John Troupis
John works at Monash Health, in Melbourne, Victoria and has special interest in both Musculoskeletal and Cardiothoracic Imaging.
He has been actively involved in teaching both at the tertiary referral hospital and with Monash University.
Dr Karen (Karnie) Falk
Karnie graduated in Medicine from the University of NSW with Honours I. Following this, Karnie trained in Radiology at the Prince of Wales Prince Henry hospital group in Sydney and Stanford University Hospital in California USA, completing a two year Fellowship in MRI at Stanford University.
Since Fellowship training, Karnie has worked extensively in private practice and held numerous private and public hospital based Radiologist appointments. She is currently Managing Radiologist at Canberra Diagnostic Imaging. Her career has involved clinical radiology as well as managerial and teaching roles.
Karnie's major areas of interest are Sports and Musculoskeletal radiology, musculoskeletal intervention and MRI. She also has a keen interest in Ultrasound, Dexa and Teleradiology and is the founding Director of Teleradiology Australia.
Following early volunteer work at Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa during her Medical training, Karnie is keen to be part of the RAB team,sharing Radiological knowledge and expertise with developing nations.
Dr Craig Buchan
Craig is a Staff Specialist at both the Gold Coast and Robina Hospitals with QScan, and a VMO of the Tweed Hospital. His main interests are in MSK and Spinal Imaging (including advanced image-guided interventions), neuroradiology and hepatobiliary MRI.
He completed his clinical training at Royal North Shore Hospital/Northern Clinical School and his General Radiology training at Liverpool and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals in Sydney, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (FRANZCR) in 2010.
In 2011, Craig completed his musculoskeletal fellowship training at the University of Toronto, where he practiced high-level acute sports medicine, MSK oncology imaging, MR arthrography, CT, ultrasound, plain radiography and image-guided interventions. He has also previously attained advanced skills in interventional radiology including hepatobiliary, genitourinary, vascular access and CT/ultrasound guided procedures.
Craig enjoys teaching and has Associate Clinical Lecturer appointments with the University of Sydney and Griffith University. His current research interests include imaging of conditions which predispose to osteoarthritis, advanced MRI imaging of cartilage, low-dose CT guided interventional radiology techniques and injury patterns and associated imaging of surfboard riders. Craig has previously visited Fiji and participated in teaching the Riti curriculum.
He is also a current member of ISMRM, Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) and American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).
Dr James Linklater
James is a musculoskeletal radiologist in Sydney, with Castlereagh Imaging.
He is a consultant radiologist for a number of professional sporting teams and has a particular interest in sports imaging.
He is a past president of the Australasian Musculoskeletal Imaging Group (AMSIG), is an examiner for the FRANZCR and is a Clinical Lecturer at USNW and University of Sydney.
Dr Graham Buirski
Dr Burski's was born and bred in London, but spent all his early medical years moving around the UK doing Physician training. Then he saw the light and moved to Radiology.
After completing his Radiology in Bristol, he moved to Australia together with his family where they've been ever since. Dr Burski's has over 25 years of Public and Private radiology experience: initially as a consultant at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and then as Specialist private radiologist in Ballarat, Victoria. Most recently, he was Professor/Director of Medical Imaging at the Canberra Hospital and significantly involved in developing a curriculum for undergraduate medical imaging at the Australian National University.
His interest in MSK radiology is recognised as the founding member of AMSIG and as a member of the International Skeletal Society.
Dr Burski's is currently working in Doha, Qatar as the section head of MSK imaging at the Sidra Medical and Research Center and providing specialist radiology MSK services and teaching to the local hospitals here. His interest in radiology education continues as Assistant (interim) Professor of Radiology at the Weill Cornel University (New York) where he continues to teach students at the Qatar campus in the Middle East. Dr Burski's is looking forward to contributing to further education in "areas of need” through RAB.
Dr Ken Tsai
Studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 2012.
I recently completed radiology training in Hobart and am currently pursuing an Interventional Radiology fellowship in Melbourne. Interests include interventional radiology, neuroradiology and abdominal radiology.
]Born in Taiwan and raised in Fiji, I like to bring a relaxed and cheerful personality to my work. In my past time I enjoy spending time at the beach, drinking whisky and chilling out with good mates.
Dr Verity Wood
Verity completed FRANZCR training in 2016 and currently works as a Radiologist in Christchurch, New Zealand.
During her earlier career she studied Travel and Wilderness Medicine through the University of Otago.
In 2018 Verity spent a year in Vancouver completing a Body Imaging and Intervention fellowship through the University of British Columbia. Following fellowship, her skills remain general but with a specialist interest in abdominal imaging.
Verity is a member of the both the RANZCR New Zealand Branch Committee and the Safety, Quality and Standards committee.
Alison Kearns
Qualifying as a Canadian Sonographer at McMaster University in 2011 , Allison currently works as a Senior Sonographer at Spectrum Medical Imaging in Sydney’s Inner East.
She has a passion for MSK, Women’s and Paediatric Imaging. She is committed to improving the inequality of health care and has been a part of VITAL for the last two years- presenting & teaching in Fiji and Vietnam.
Maria Bakkers
Ms Maria Bakker is a Senior Sonographer at I-Med Radiology Network in Brisbane Queensland with over 30 years experience in Medical Imaging.
She started her career as a Cadet Radiographer in 1986 at the Mater Public Hospital Brisbane, completed a Dip in Applied Sciences Ultrasound QUT 1993 and a Master of Business Administration QUT 2001.
Maria is a generalist sonographer with a passion for MSK, Obstetrics and Vascular Ultrasound. She has mentored many junior sonographers, set workplace protocols and presented locally and internationally.
As a hiatus from clinical practice she worked as a Sales Representative for Toshiba Medical 1995-2000 and was Marketing Manager for Southernex Radiology 2002-2004.
Other areas of interest for Maria include weekly visits to the Queensland Childrens Hospital with her pet dog, Bozo The Wonder Dog, cheering up patients and their parents, and providing yearly Holiday Camp Education and Activities for disadvantaged kids at New Life Orphanage in Myanmar.
Dr Madhav Nagarkar
Originally from Mumbai, India, he has trained at the grant medical college and J.J.Group of hospitals for his MBBS and then M.D.Radiology, completed in 1988.
Madhav moved to Australia mid-career in 2008, looking to broaden his horizons and those of his children.
In India he was consultant at a busy general hospital in central Mumbai, and later also had a short stint in private practice before relocating to Australia.
Currently he works with i-med radiology in Rockhampton, central Queensland as a general radiologist, working in all modalities, in a role typical for a regional centre.
Having experienced radiology in India and with an interest in the many applications for ultrasound, he is enthusiastic about the potential
use of the modality in countries with limited resources in imaging.
When taking a break from work, he and his wife, Shruti, enjoy travel, with many destinations still on their "bucket list" music, cinema, trekking and nature take up all the remaining spare time!
Dr Felix Paterson
Felix completed medical school, junior doctor years and Radiology training in Adelaide including rural work in both South Australia and Darwin.
He has an interest in Oncology and is Dual trained as a Nuclear Medicine Specialist.
He also enjoys travelling with his wife, sailing and Kite boarding.
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Ron Shnier
Rupinder Sekhon
Thulasi Rajah
Ashok Kumar
Himanshu Roy
Patrick Luckey
George Wang
Jen Shoobridge
Jonathan Robertson
Sharmistha Bose
Gareth Porter
Susan Singh
Mike Bynevelt
Stephen Sinnott
Shashini Dissanayake
Liz Wylie
Johnathan Seeff
Savio Godinho
Faisal Rashid
John Grieve
Andrew Henderson
Grant Meikle
Simon Gray
Graham Dunn
Deepthi Dissanayake
Ron Dorey
Anusha Naidoo
Kathryn Currow
Jenny Davidson
Frank Parrish
Mark Scott
Jeff Tam
Adeline Wong
Bronwyn Slater
Mary Greer
Cara Odenthal
Sally Sojan
Amit Chacko
Dominic Collis
Yvonne Ho
Mehreen Alamgir
Jennifer Powell
Nicholas Humphries
Kapilan Varatharajah
Michael Lin
Ash Walton
John Makeham
Ian Dunn
Vinicus Carro do Nascimento
Murthy Chennapragada
Sarath Senadeera
David Serich
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