Speakers

Read more - Stream 3, Session 6 Chair: Data security

Professor Gilbert, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, is focused on imaging techniques relating to breast cancer and oncology. She works in Addenbrookes Hospital and is part of the Cambridge Breast Unit which delivers screening to Cambridge and Huntingdon. She evaluates new imaging technology and is currently working on Artificial Intelligence in Imaging to detect cancer, biomarkers to predict cancer and response to neoadjuvant therapy, novel imaging techniques such as sodium imaging with MRI and assessing different imaging tools to detect cancer in women with dense breasts. 

Fiona is a regular speaker at international radiology conferences in Chicago and Vienna and was awarded Honorary membership of the Radiological Society of North America in 2019, Honorary fellowship of the American College of Radiologists, the Gold Medal from the European Society of Radiology and fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021 and fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is immediate past President of the European Society of Breast Imaging. She is the Lead advisor for AI for the Royal College of Radiologists. 

She has sat on a number of committees and funding Boards and is on a number of advisory panels. She is a director of NASCIT. Previous appointments have been a Board member of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Governor of Robert Gordons College and vice chairman of the Beatson cancer charity. 

Read more - Stream 3, Session 2: Putting AI to work: an overview of Dutch and European collaborative initiatives

Read more - Stream 4, Session 5: AIFI: Nationwide AI implementation for radiology in the Netherlands

Kicky van Leeuwen’s mission is to create value with data science and artificial intelligence for improved and more efficient patient care. She studied Technical Medicine at the University of Twente and gained both research and commercial experience in the field of artificial intelligence in healthcare before starting at the Radiology department of the Radboudumc.

She is a PhD candidate in the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group under supervision of Bram van Ginneken, Matthieu Rutten, Maarten de Rooij, and Steven Schalekamp. Her research concerns the development of a methodology for validation and implementation of artificial intelligence software in radiology.

David B. Larson, MD, MBA, is Professor of Radiology (Pediatric Radiology) and Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University. He also serves as the Associate Chief Quality Officer for Improvement for Stanford Health Care, overseeing improvement training programs at SHC. Dr. Larson is a national thought leader in radiology quality improvement and patient safety, and a regular speaker regarding topics ranging from pediatric CT radiation dose optimization to radiology peer learning. He is the founder of Stanford’s Realizing Improvement through Team Empowerment (RITE) program and co-founder of the Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training (CELT) program, continuing to serve as co-executive director of both programs. He also founded and leads the Stanford Medicine Improvement Capability Development Program (ICDP) and the Advanced Course in Improvement Science (ACIS).

Dr. Larson is the founder and program chair for the annual Radiology Improvement Summit held annually at Stanford, which began in 2015. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Radiology, overseeing quality and safety, and on the Board of Chancellors for the American College of Radiology as the chair of the ACR's Commission on Quality and Safety. He also founded and leads the ACR Learning Network, which was launched in 2021.

Prior to his position at Stanford, Dr. Larson was the Janet L. Strife Chair for Quality and Safety in Radiology and a faculty member of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds MD and MBA degrees from Yale University and completed his training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Larson is a pediatric radiologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. 

Professor Sam Hare is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist and Chief Executive Officer of the HLH Imaging Group. He is a Professor of Thoracic Radiology and past NHS England National Specialty Advisor for Imaging. Sam is passionate about lung cancer screening and has won several industry awards for chest radiology, including the inaugural NHS Innovation Challenge Prize for Cancer and BMJ Cancer Team of the Year. Sam is frequently featured in national media, and he pioneered ambulatory lung biopsy in the UK. He has specialist expertise in lung cancer screening, lung nodules, and complex lung biopsy.