MD, FACR, FSBI, FISMRM
Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology, University of California, Davis – Sacramento, CA, USA
Former Chief, Breast Imaging Service; Larry Norton Endowed Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Elizabeth Morris MD is Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology, University of California, Davis in Sacramento, California, USA. Dr. Morris graduated summa cum laude from the University of California Davis (UCD) in Biochemistry and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her residency at WCMC and a body/breast imaging fellowship at MSKCC where she quickly became the Chief and Larry Norton Endowed Chair of the Breast Imaging Service.
Dr. Morris is a fellow of the American College of Radiology (ACR), Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and International Society of MR in Medicine (ISMRM) and is past president of the SBI (2015, 2016, 2017). She is the inaugural Equity Diversity & Inclusion officer of the ISMRM and co-chair of the Women of ISMRM (WISMRM). She is the 2019 former Chair of the MRI BI-RADS Committee, and was awarded the Exceptional Women in Medicine (EWIM) in 2019.

Her research focus is on how best to use newer techniques such as MRI for early breast cancer detection and to improve the workup of breast lesions. In collaboration with her colleagues, she has written over 230 papers, 40 chapters, and 5 books about breast disease with an emphasis on the use of MRI. She has lectures widely both nationally and internationally at over 300 conferences. She has grants from NCI, RSNA, Komen Foundation, and Breast Cancer Research Foundation. She has authored a book “Breast MRI: Diagnosis & Intervention”. Her recent research efforts have involved looking at imaging biomarkers to assess risk and treatment response.

A/Prof McCradden is a bioethicist from The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada and will present at the ASM on ‘Hype, hope, and high stakes: ethical issues for radiologists using artificial intelligence’, crucial to us all as AI technologies reach the clinical coalface.

Melissa is the John and Melinda Thompson Director of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, where she is the Director of the Integration Team for SickKids’ AI initiative. She is an Associate Scientist with the Genetics and Genome Biology Research Program at SickKids. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto she teaches Empirical Bioethics in the School of Graduate Studies.

Dr McCradden holds a PhD in Neuroscience from McMaster University and a Master’s degree in Bioethics from the University of Toronto. She is a member of several international consensus and working groups charged with the development of guidelines and standards pertaining to the evaluation of health AI. Dr McCradden’s research focuses on engagement of children and youth regarding ethical issues in health data research, embedding justice-based commitments into health AI, and ethical clinical decision-making using novel technologies in pediatrics.

Dr Perry J. Pickhardt graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, his hometown school, in 1991 with a bachelor of science in physics (class rank 1/3,274). Beginning in 1991, Dr Pickhardt attended the University of Michigan Medical School on the HPSP Scholarship Program and graduated with his doctor of medicine in 1995 (Hewlett-Packard Award as a top graduate). From 1995-1999, he was a resident in diagnostic radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. During his training in St. Louis, Dr. Pickhardt co-edited a textbook on body CT and published a number of scientific papers.

For the next four years after residency training, Dr Pickhardt served in the U.S. Navy, spending one year as the Department Head of Radiology, U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and three years as the head of GI-GU Imaging at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, MD (twice named Teacher of the Year). He also served as an assistant professor of radiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda. Among other projects at NNMC,Dr Pickhardt organized a large multi-center screening trial evaluating CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) and served as the primary investigator.

Dr Pickhardt joined the Abdominal Imaging and Intervention Section at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2003 as an associate professor (CHS) of radiology and was promoted to professor (CHS) in 2009. He continues to serve as the Chief of Gastrointestinal Imaging. CT colonography and colorectal cancer screening continue to be among Dr Pickhardt’s clinical and research interests, along with machine learning/artificial intelligence, oncologic imaging, and opportunistic CT screening. His work in abdominal imaging has resulted in over 400 scientific publications and book chapters, as well as multiple textbooks. Among other honors, he has received the best paper award at the Annual Meeting for the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology on four occasions and was named “Most Influential Radiology Researcher” by auntminnie.com in 2016. He has also served as a PI on multiple NIH R01 grants. In 2017, he also assumed the title of Medical Director of Oncologic Imaging for the UW Carbone Cancer Center.

Professor Sujal Desai is a consultant radiologist with an expertise in thoracic imaging, and a Professor of practice in Thoracic imaging at Imperial College, London.  Professor Desai trained in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London, qualifying in 1987. As senior house officer, Professor Desai spent time at Royal Brompton Hospital and, after completing the MRCP (UK), he entered formal radiology training at King’s College Hospital Medical School.  

Professor Desai was awarded the Frank Doyle Medal for achievement in the Part I FRCR examination and the Rohan Williams Medal for the Part II FRCR examination. Following core radiology training Professor Desai undertook research at Royal Brompton Hospital, under the supervision of Professor David Hansell (his predecessor in the post he now holds), being awarded an MD for his thesis on structural-functional correlations in fibrosing lung disease. 

Professor Desai was previously a consultant at King’s College Hospital in London where he worked for 18 years before returning to Royal Brompton Hospital.

Dr Asif Saifuddin is the senior Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, UK where he has practised since 1994. His major interests are in all aspects of musculoskeletal MRI, with particular interest in musculoskeletal tumour imaging and bone biopsy, being the Radiology Lead for the London Sarcoma Service. He has lectured nationally and internationally, has over 300 peer reviewed publications and written many book chapters and books, the major work being Musculoskeletal MRI (2^nd Ed published in 2016).

Tarek Yousry is professor of neuroradiology at UCL Institute of Neurology, head of Lysholm department of neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and head of the division of neuroradiology and neurophysics. He was awarded the fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2003.

His interest focuses on improving treatment outcome through precise identification of anatomic and functional structures, establishing quantitative MR indices of various CNS diseases and defining their histological basis at 9.4T and applying them at 1.5T and 3T.

Dr Mahajan is a professor at Mayo Clinic in the Department of Radiation Oncology. She serves as the medical director of particle therapy where she is in charge of the day-to-day operations. She is also involved in Mayo Clinic Radiation Oncology initiatives with international partners. Before moving to Mayo Clinic, she was a professor at MD Anderson Cancer Clinic in Houston. Her major interests are improving radiotherapy for paediatric patients and adult patients with brain tumours with a special interest in proton therapy and advanced delivery techniques. Dr Mahajan is an author in over 140 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high impact journals. She has been an active participant in several national and international cooperative groups and has served on the leadership committees for ASTRO, PROS, PTCOG, PTCOG-NA, and COG.

Dr Lee is Vice Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology; Service Chief, Head & Neck Radiation Oncology; Service Chief, Proton Therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She has more than 17 years of experience and specializes in using advanced forms of radiation to treat head and neck cancer, including thyroid cancer. These include proton therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, image-guided radiation therapy, and stereotactic body radiation therapy.

Dr Richard “Harry” Harris was a major part of an international rescue team that captured the world’s imagination.

An Australian doctor and expert cave diver, Dr Harris played a crucial role in the rescue of 12 young boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.

The rescue was a matter of life and death and using his skills as an anaesthetist and as a cave diver Dr Harris helped guide the boys through nearly four kilometres of water with visibility down to zero.

Dr Harris works in anaesthesia and also aeromedical retrieval medicine in Adelaide, South Australia.

He has expertise in diving, wilderness and remote area health. His passion for cave diving goes back to the 1980’s and has taken him to the corners of the globe in search of new adventures.

Harry and his colleagues have explored the Pearse Resurgence in New Zealand to 229m depth, Daxing Spring in China to 213m and Song Hong Cave in Thailand to 196m to name a few.

Harry has a professional and voluntary interest in search and rescue operations, establishing the first sump rescue training course in Australasia. By building relationships with emergency services locally he has been preparing for such an event. The 2018 Thailand cave rescue was an opportunity to put this training to work.  

In 2018 he received the Star of Courage, Australia’s second highest civilian award for bravery, and the medal of the Order of Australia for his role in the Thailand cave rescue.

Dr Richard Harris is the 2019 Australian of the Year for South Australia and the joint 2019 Australian of the Year with his dive partner Dr Craig Challen.

A truly remarkable man who has an incredible story to tell. 

The 2022 Nisbet Oration will be presented at Opening Session of the
RANZCR 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting.