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Consultant Radiologist, Deputy Director – Imaging Research Group 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5203-4670

 

I am a clinical academic radiologist at St George’s Hospital in London and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Medical Sciences at City St George’s, University of London. I serve as Deputy Director of the Imaging Research Group (St George’s Hospital) and the Research Officer for the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. I am a member of the Royal College of Radiologists Academic Committee and Research Review Panel of the Pelican Cancer Foundation. I am Joint Academic Training Programme Director for the London School of Radiology. 

Having undertaken academic clinical training initially as an Academic Foundation Doctor (2009-2011) and an Academic Clinical Fellow (2011-2014), I undertook my NIHR BRC funded PhD looking at the role of imaging biomarkers for prognostication in colorectal and anal cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Imperial College London (awarded 2020) with support from the Pelican Cancer Foundation for the SERENADE study. Following a post-doc in digital imaging at the Royal Marsden Hospital I returned to St George’s Hospital to establish the Imaging Research Group and have overseen the rapid development and expansion of this multidisciplinary team. 

My research interests continue to include bowel cancer and imaging biomarker validation, but I am increasingly interested in the potential role of imaging in better understanding rare genetic diseases including tuberous sclerosis (co-applicant on awarded Supporting Kidney Patients across Sussex (SEKPA) grant) and Primary Lymphoedema (recipient of the Royal College of Radiologist Kodak Fellowship 2025). 

I have been awarded more than £250,000 of personal research salary funding to date and was recipient of the British Nuclear Medicine Society’s Young Investigator Prize in 2011 and BMJ Imaging Team of the Year in 2015. 

I am passionate about supporting the next generation of clinical academic researchers, including doctors, radiographers and physicists and am delighted to supervise a talented group of individuals.

 

Research interests

My research interests include oncological imaging and developing the evidence for the best use of imaging biomarkers, ensuring we image the right patient, at the right time, with the right test, every time. Through collaborative, multidisciplinary working we are developing the evidence base to de-intensify imaging for some patients and allow others to have specialist imaging closer to home. 

In addition, I am interested in the potential role of imaging in addition wet lab-based science to better understand physiology and pathophysiology of rare genetic disease, employing the non-invasive nature of imaging tests to explore disease progression. 

 

Expertise & experience 

  • Research Officer, British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology 
  • Joint Academic Training Programme Director, London School of Radiology 
  • Member (Co-opted), Royal College of Radiologists Academic Committee 
  • Member, Research Review Panel, Pelican Cancer Foundation 

 

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