Doctors from Austria, Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the U.K. have joined DI Europe's Editorial Advisory Board during the past six months. This article introduces these new members to you and provides brief background on their careers and specialist areas.
Dr. Filipe Caseiro Alves is head of the radiology department at the University Hospital of Coimbra, Portugal, and is an expert on abdominal radiology, particularly hepatobiliary imaging. He is vice president of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology, a past president of the Portuguese Board of Radiology (2001-2003), and secretary of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra. He has presented more than 200 lectures at national and international meetings and is a reviewer for European Radiology, Abdominal Imaging, Radiology, Acta Radiológica Portuguesa, and the European Society of Radiology's EURORAD database.
Dr. Katarzyna Gruszczynska works as an assistant in the department of radiology and nuclear medicine at Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Having previously specialized in internal medicine, she obtained a medical degree in April 2003 and then trained as a radiologist. She has been chair of the Polish Medical Society of Radiology's cardiovascular radiology section since 2005 and completed her cardiac CT fellowship at Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam in October 2007.
Dr. Andrea Klauser is an associate professor of radiology at Innsbruck Medical University in Austria. She obtained her medical degree in 1996 and was a visiting fellow at the Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2000. Her main scientific interest and daily clinical routine work is focused on musculoskeletal imaging, particularly rheumatology, sports imaging, ultrasound contrast media, ultrasound-guided interventions, elastography, and new ultrasound technologies. She is chair of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology's ultrasound subcommittee and second vice president of ÖGUM (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin).
Dr. Philippe Lefere has worked as a radiologist since 1987 and specializes in gastrointestinal radiology and CT colonography at Stedelijk Ziekenhuis in Roeselare, Belgium. He also works at the Virtual Colonoscopy Teaching Centre in Hooglede, Belgium, providing remote education in CTC using teleradiology. He is a fellow and member of the bylaws committee of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, as well as the ESGAR CTC committee. As a member of the ESGAR CTC faculty, he has actively participated to the ESGAR CTC workshops since the first workshop was organized in 2003.
Dr. Anne Paterson is a consultant pediatric radiologist at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast, U.K. She qualified in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London, in 1990 and took a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Duke University Medical Center, in North Carolina, in 1998-1999. She is an assistant editor of Clinical Radiology and serves on the editorial board of Pediatric Radiology.
Paterson is also pediatric lead for the Validated Case Archive project, which forms part of the E-Learning for Health Initiative and is organized by the U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), National Health Service, and the Department of Health. In both 1998 and 2004 she won the Constance Thornton Fellowship in Paediatric Radiology, awarded by the RCR.
Dr. Anders Persson is director of the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) at Linköping University in Sweden. He has worked in the field of visual representation of medical radiological data and medical applications for over 20 years. He was one of the first people to introduce color 3D images from CT and MRI in clinical practice and was one of the founders of CMIV. His current research is focusing on specialized 3D volume-rendering algorithms for CT and MRI, as well as the use of new 3D and 4D tools in education. He is a board member of Sectra, C-cite, and the National Super Computer Center at Linköping University and was head of radiology at Hudiksvalls Hospital in Sweden from 1994 to 1998. He received the 2008 Lennart Nilsson Award for scientific photography.
The following people have left the board this year: Prof. José Ignacio Bilbao from Pamplona, Spain; Dr. David Connell from London; Dr. Béla Fornet from Budapest; and Dr. William Teh from London. We would like to thank them very much for their active support over the years.
