BIR UK MRI course

Speaker profiles (where supplied) Mrs Carole Burnett NIHR Fellow, Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit I qualified as a Radiographer in 1989 and have specialised in Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the last 16 years. I have had a varied career working within the private sector, industry and National Health service in clinical and managerial positions.

In November 2010 I was awarded a National Institute of Health Research Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship. This is a 4 year grant to allow me to undertake my PhD investigating ‘Improving the safety and patient experience in the magnetic resonance imaging of arthritis: Magnetic resonance imaging of synovitis without the use of intravenous gadolinium’.

I was appointed the Lead Radiographer for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

Dr Geoff Charles-Edwards Principal Clinical Scientist, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust After training as a clinical physicist, Geoff Charles-Edwards obtained a PhD in Magnetic Resonance from the Institute of Cancer Research, before moving to Guy’s & St Thomas’ hospitals in 2003 where he is now Principal Clinical Scientist. He is also a HEFCE-NIHR Senior Clinical Lecturer and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

Mrs Daina Dambitis Service manager MRI, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Daina qualified as a radiographer in1980 from Leeds General Infirmary, she then worked as a radiographer in the Middle East in the 1980’s.

Daina returned to Yorkshire working in Nuclear Medicine and CT at St James’s Hospital Leeds.

Daina set up CT service at Harrogate.

Daina trained in MRI at Leeds General Infirmary, worked a split post as a research radiographer.

Daina set up a new MRI service at Cookridge oncology hospital and new oncology wing at St James’s Hospital Leeds.

Daina is now working as Service manager for Leeds Trust MRI. Dr Martin Graves Consultant Clinical Scientist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Martin Graves is a Consultant Clinical Scientist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and an Affiliated Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Clinical School.

He has nearly 30 years of experience working in clinical and research MRI in both London and Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and the Higher Education Academy. He is active on a number of national and international committees including the BIR MR Special Interest Group as well as the ISMRM Education and Annual Meeting Programme Committees. He has coauthored over 130 publications as well as the award winning MRI text book MRI: from Picture to Proton.