Keynote Speakers

Liina Põder

Professor of Clinical Radiology, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
Director of Ultrasound Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco.

Dr Liina Pōder is internationally known as an expert in obstetrical and gynecologic imaging. Her current clinical and research focus is multimodality imaging of reproductive age female. She started her medical studies at Tartu University in Estonia but later received her Medical Degree from George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC. After residency at GWU, she completed Abdominal Imaging fellowship at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging where she has been for past 16 years and is currently the Director of Ultrasound in Abdominal Imaging Section. She serves as Gynecology and Obstetrics Imaging Panel Chair for American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria and as a Chair of Placental Working Group and Member of Endometriosis Working Group for Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR).

Antonio Carlos Westphalen

Professor of Clinical Radiology and Urology.
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Antonio Carlos Westphalen is internationally known as an expert in imaging of genitourinary diseases, in particular of prostate cancer. His research is focused in the use of advanced imaging technologies to diagnose and treat prostate cancer patients with the ultimate goal of improving patients’ outcomes. Dr. Westphalen is the Director of the Clinical Prostate MRI Program and a member of the UCSF Department of Radiology’s Clinical Research Team and of the Prostate Cancer Imaging Group. He has published over 100 articles related to his research, which have appeared in the major journals in the fields of radiology, urology, and radiation oncology. Dr. Westphalen has lectured at multiple international meetings and directed several Prostate MR Imaging Workshop in the U.S.A. and overseas.

Ron Zagoria

Professor of Clinical Radiology, Chief of the Abdominal Imaging.
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Ron Zagoria has over 30 years of experience in abdominal imaging and interventional radiology. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his Radiology residency and fellowship at Wake Forest University with a stent of interventional uroradiology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His main areas of research have been in renal tumor imaging and ablation, prostate imaging and urinary tract imaging techniques. He is a Vice Chair and the Abdominal Imaging Section Chief at UCSF, a past president of the Society of Uroradiology (now the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR)), a fellow in the SAR, the American Society of Emergency Radiology, the European Society of Urogenital Radiology and the American College of Radiology. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emergency Radiology.

Deborah Shatzkes

Professor of Radiology and Otolaryngology.
Director of Head & Neck Imaging for the New York Head & Neck Institute and Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
Professor of Radiology and Otolaryngology at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

Dr. Shatzkes is Professor of Radiology and Otolaryngology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell, and Chief of Head & Neck Imaging at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She is a cum laude graduate of Barnard College and SUNY Downstate Medical Center. She completed her radiology residency at Downstate followed by a fellowship in neuroradiology at NYU Medical Center, and has been practicing exclusively head and neck radiology for the past 15 years. Dr. Shatzkes is first past president of the American Society of Head & Neck Radiology and was program chair for the 2018 annual meeting in Savannah, Georgia. She has both written and reviewed for numerous radiology and surgery journals, and has extensive committee service for ASHNR, ASNR, ABR, RSNA, ACR and AAO-HNS. Dr. Shatzkes is on the faculty of the American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP, formerly AFIP), whose 4-week course is attended by the majority of U.S. and many international radiology residents. She is a frequent lecturer on Head & Neck imaging topics both nationally and internationally.

C. Douglas Phillips

Professor of Radiology and Neuroradiology.
Director of Head and Neck Imaging Weill-Cornell Medical College and Presbyterian Hospital Department of Radiology New York.

C. Douglas Phillips
Dr. Phillips is a Professor of Radiology at the Weill Cornell Medical College and an attending physician and Director of Head and Neck Imaging at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He graduated from Marshall University and the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University. He was a resident in Diagnostic Radiology and a fellow in Neuroradiology at the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center. He was an attending physician at UVA for 20 years, rising to the rank of Professor. He also served as a Vice Chair of the Department of Radiology and the division director of Neuroradiology at UVA. He is a former president of the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology, and is the current Head and Neck Senior Editor for the American Journal of Neuroradiology. He has written over 100 peer-reviewed publications, numerous book chapters and electronic publications, given over 700 invited lectures both nationally and internationally, and is a current faculty member of the American Institute for Radiology Pathology (AIRP, formerly the AFIP). Current professional memberships include the ASNR, ENRS, RSNA, ARRS, ASHNR, ACR, ABR and AAO-HNS.

Stephanie Ryan

Professor of Paediatric Radiology
Stephanie Ryan was a Paediatric Radiologist at Temple Street Children’s Hospital and at the Neonatal Department of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin for nearly 25 years

Stephanie Ryan
Stephanie did Fellowships in Paediatric Radiology in Seattle, Washington and in Interventional Radiology in the Mayo Clinic, USA.
She has written several papers and book chapters on paediatric imaging and has written a textbook on imaging anatomy, now in its third edition, in several languages and popular with radiology trainees around the world. She has a special interest in neonatal radiology, neuroradiology and in the imaging of metabolic disorders.
Stephanie is an enthusiastic teacher and mentor of several generations of paediatric radiologists, paediatricians and anyone interested in learning paediatric radiology.