MRI briefing: speaker biographies
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield FRS
Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham.
Sir Peter won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2003 for his pioneering work with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He played a key role in the development of medical application of MRI. He demonstrated that signals from magnetic resonance could be mathematically analysed to produce clear images. He also developed methods that enabled the production of images many times faster than previously possible.
Sir Peter has won numerous awards and prizes including the Royal Society Wellcome Foundation Gold Medal and Prize and the Mullard Medal and Prize for technological innovation in NMR imaging leading to industrial development. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and knighted in 1993.
Professor Ian Young OBE FRS FREng
Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London and Visiting Professor in the Department of Radiology at University of Miami.
Professor Young was a pioneer of MRI, performing the world’s first MR scan of the head in 1978 while at EMI Laboratories. Later, he led the team that designed and installed the world’s first superconducting MR system at Hammersmith Hospital in 1981. Professor Young has authored or co-authored over 150 peer reviewed journal papers and 65 US patents and a similar number of British/European equivalents. He remains an active MR researcher and prominent member of the MR community.
Professor Young’s contributions have been recognised by numerous awards and prizes, notably the Sir Frank Whittle Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. In 1987 he received an OBE.
Dr Steve Keevil
Senior Lecturer in Imaging Sciences at King’s College London and Head of Magnetic Resonance Physics at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals.
Dr Keevil has 17 years experience of MR physics research and clinical service provision. His main professional interests are interventional MRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and applications of MRI in cancer therapy. He was a member of the team that performed the world’‘s first MR-guided cardiac interventions, with particular responsibility for safety aspects, and has advised government agencies and commercial companies on MR safety issues.
Dr Keevil chairs the Science, Engineering and Technology Committee of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
Dr Andrew Taylor
Radiologist at the Cardiothoracic Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.
Dr Taylor is an academic radiologist with an interest in cardiovascular imaging. He provides the research and clinical link between Cardiology and cross-sectional imaging (MRI and CT).
He has carried out a research MD in cardiovascular MRI at The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, and more recently gained experience in interventional cardiovascular MRI at Guy’s Hospital, London. His main research interests are in MR imaging of congenital heart disease and vascular disease in children, the development of interventional cardiovascular MR, and the use of MR imaging as a method of post-mortem assessment. Dr Taylor will be the Royal College of Radiology Roentgen Professor in 2006.
Last updated: November 23 2006