Tanya W. Moseley, MD has distinguished herself as a top-notch radiologist, clinician, educator, researcher, and leader in her field. She is a world-class teacher of undergraduates, residents, fellows, medical students, and breast imaging technologists. She has supervised and trained numerous visiting scientists, residents, and fellows over the past 20 years. Dr. Moseley is a former Fellowship Director of Breast Imaging, and developed an outstanding Breast Ultrasound Course at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. In 2017 Dr. Moseley received the University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.She is the past Breast Section Program Chair and Breast Section Course Director of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) Case-Based Imaging Review Breast Section. Dr. Moseley lectures all over the world and is known for simplifying the complex. Dr. Moseley received her Doctorate of Medicine with Honors at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa. She entered a Clinical Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and continued on at the Mayo Clinic in a Clinical Fellowship in Mammography and Thoracic Imaging. After completing her fellowship, Dr. Moseley joined Mayo Clinic as a Senior Associate Consultant, and then joined the Division of Diagnostic Imaging at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is presently a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Breast Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson

Breast Cancer Imaging, Diagnostic Imaging,Diagnotic Radiology, Breast Surgical Oncology.

Dr. Hyoung K. Lee is Associate Professor and Chair of Nuclear Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Lee has his expertise in radiation detection and imaging. He has worked in teaching hospitals as a medical physicist and has also been a faculty member in academia since receiving his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research area includes radiation detector design and characterization, advanced radiation sources, advanced imaging systems using x-ray, gamma ray or neutron, algorithms for CT reconstruction, image processing, image analysis, and application of deep learning for medical imaging. He has successfully conducted many research projects that covered a wide spectrum of radiation detection and imaging technologies, from development of radiation detectors to development of image enhancement algorithms (some of which were transferred to industry). His current research includes development of flat-panel x-ray sources, compact x-ray tubes for stationary cardiac CT and switchable radioisotopes for imaging and other applications. He has published more than one-hundred forty peer-reviewed publications and edited a book chapter in his field of research. He has also given twenty-five invited lectures and one-hundred and nine abstracted talks.

Radiation Imaging, Computer Tomography, X-Ray Source, Nuclear Engineering

Ken Miles is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London and Senior Medical Officer at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane. He is dual-trained in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and has wide experience in Positron Emission Tomography, having been involved in the establishment of four PET centres worldwide. His research interests include the development and evaluation of advanced quatitative imaging techniques in oncology. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications and contributed to or edited 11 books in Radiology. Ken is a past editor in chief of the journal Cancer Imaging.

Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, Medical Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography

Jaime Tisnado graduated from Leoncio Prado Military Academy. He received his BM degree from San Marcos National University, College of Sciences. He received his MD degree summa cum laude from the same San Marcos National University Medical School. He was an Intern at GBMC, a division of John's Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, MD, 1965, and then an Intern and Resident in Surgery at The State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse NY, 1966-67. He was a Resident in Radiology for 4 years at Thomas Jefferson University Medical Center in Philadelphia, 1967-71. Then he took 2 years fellowships in Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology both at the same institution, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, 1971-73. He then became an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Director of Interventional Radiology at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, 1974-77. Thereafter he moved to Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA, where he became Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of Interventional Radiology and eventually became Professor of Radiology and Professor of Surgery, at the same university from 1985 till 2010. Thereafter, he was named one of the few Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Surgery, all at the same Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010 till now. He has published more than 100 articles in peer reviewed journals, about 400 scientific posters and electronic exhibits all over the country and the world, and about 200 abstracts, 4 books, many chapters in books, and about 200 papers presented at meetings, at the local, national, and worldwide level. He has been selected many times to Who is Who in America, the Best Radiologists in America, the Best Physicians in USA, etc. Moreover, he is the only person in the country and in the world who has, at the same time and forever, more than 5 fellowships in the most prestigious professional organizations of USA.

Radiology, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Neuroradiology

Professor Kattesh V. Katti is internationally recognized as a leader in the interconnecting fields of—chemistry, radiopharmaceutical sciences, nanotechnology/green nanotechnology and nanomedicine—for biomedical applications, specifically for molecular imaging and therapy of living subjects. Dr. Katti has been awarded a number of international awards and citations which include: Winner of the 2016 'Person of the Year in Science' award by Vijayavani, India's most influential newspaper with over 75 million readership base. Dr. Katti has been selected for this coveted award for his pioneering research to connect India's 5000 year old traditional holistic medicine (Ayurveda) with scientifically sound nanomedicine through his ingenious green nanotechnology research. This work has created a new field of holistic medicine which Dr. Katti refers to as nano-ayurvedic medicine. International Hevesy Medal Award (2015) for excellence in Nuclear Sciences; Elected to the fellowship of the National Academy of Inventors (2015) recognizing the discovery of ‘Katti Peptides’; One of the ‘25 Most Influential Scientists In Molecular Imaging in the World’ award by RT Image, the ‘Father of Green Nanotechnology’ citation by the Nobel Prize Winner Norman Borlaug, Gauss Professorship—Hall of Fame—from the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, ‘Outstanding Scientists Fellows’ award and induction as a Fellow of the Academy of Science, St Louis—one of the oldest scientific academies of the world and many more. In 2013, Dr. Katti was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science with a citation “for distinguished contributions encompassing nanoscale chemistry, particularly for ground breaking discoveries enabling application of nanotechnology concepts for biomedical applications”. His unprecedented discovery of the production of tumor specific gold nanoparticles through 100% green processes have been cited as the Editor’s choice in Nature, Future Medicine, in Science (AAAS), in Popular Science, by the Discovery Channel and have been highlighted in scientific/medical programs of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, London).

Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Green Nanotechnology in Nanomedicine, Innovations in Green Nanotechnology, Radiopharmaceutical Sciences in molecular imaging and therapy, Metals/Organometallics In the Development of Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents ,Biomedical Optical Imaging

Apostolos Karantanas was born in Larissa, Greece. He graduated the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece at 1983. Dr. Karantanas completed the Radiology training in University Ηospital of Ioannina. He undertook musculoskeletal training on metabolic bone disorders in New York University Medical Center and on MR imaging MSK applications in Manchester Medical School/Manchester Royal Infirmary. He has been given 370 invited lectures in 27 countries and is a regular faculty member in ECR, ISS, Erasmus courses MSK MRI, School of MRI/ESMRMB, ESOR and ESSR. He is the author of 171 Medline/188 Scopus publications (h index 24, citations 2100; Google Scholar citations: 3.450, h index:33, i10 index:82), 6 books, 57 chapters in books and 345 announcements in international conferences. Prof. Karantanas is a reviewer in 21 Medline journals, Editorial Board in two and has been a Guest Editor in 3 issues of medline journals. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leeds and Amsterdam. Prof. Karantanas is currently Professor of Radiology - University of Crete, Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging and Director of the Laboratory Section - Heraklion University Hospital, Member of the ESOR Programme Planning Committee, Member of the Educational Committee of the European Society of Radiology, Member of the Sports Injuries Subcommittee/ESSR, Affiliated Scientist to the FORTH-institute, General Secretary of the Hellenic College of Radiology, Honorary President of the Radiological Society of Crete, and President of the Hellenic Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology.

His main research is focused on imaging of musculoskeletal disorders including bone marrow, osteoporosis, sports injuries, osteoarthritis, hip joint and applications of newer MR sequences and advanced models of data analysis in perfusion and diffusion imaging. He is past President of European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology and past member of the Educational Committee of the European Association of Radiology.

Apostolos Karantanas was born in Larissa, Greece. He graduated the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece at 1983. Dr. Karantanas completed the Radiology training in University Ηospital of Ioannina. He undertook musculoskeletal training on metabolic bone disorders in New York University Medical Center and on MR imaging MSK applications in Manchester Medical School/Manchester Royal Infirmary. He has been given 370 invited lectures in 27 countries and is a regular faculty member in ECR, ISS, Erasmus courses MSK MRI, School of MRI/ESMRMB, ESOR and ESSR. He is the author of 171 Medline/188 Scopus publications (h index 24, citations 2100; Google Scholar citations: 3.450, h index:33, i10 index:82), 6 books, 57 chapters in books and 345 announcements in international conferences. Prof. Karantanas is a reviewer in 21 Medline journals, Editorial Board in two and has been a Guest Editor in 3 issues of medline journals. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leeds and Amsterdam. Prof. Karantanas is currently Professor of Radiology - University of Crete, Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging and Director of the Laboratory Section - Heraklion University Hospital, Member of the ESOR Programme Planning Committee, Member of the Educational Committee of the European Society of Radiology, Member of the Sports Injuries Subcommittee/ESSR, Affiliated Scientist to the FORTH-institute, General Secretary of the Hellenic College of Radiology, Honorary President of the Radiological Society of Crete, and President of the Hellenic Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology.

His main research is focused on imaging of musculoskeletal disorders including bone marrow, osteoporosis, sports injuries, osteoarthritis, hip joint and applications of newer MR sequences and advanced models of data analysis in perfusion and diffusion imaging. He is past President of European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology and past member of the Educational Committee of the European Association of Radiology.

Binsheng Zhao received her D.Sc. degree in 1994 from University of Heidelberg, Germany. She is currently a Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Director of Computational Image Analysis Lab in the Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.

Binsheng Zhao current research interests include computer-aided cancer detection, diagnosis, response prediction and assessment in multiple diseases in oncology as well as imaging harmonization for quantitative image analysis.

Dr. Krupinski is a Professor at Emory University in the Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences where she is Vice-Chair for Research. She received her BA from Cornell, MA from Montclair State and PhD from Temple, all in Experimental Psychology. Her interests are in medical image perception, observer performance, medical decision making, and human factors. She is Associate Director of Evaluation for the Arizona Telemedicine Program and Director of the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center (SWTRC). She has published extensively in these areas, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. She is Past Chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Past President of the American Telemedicine Association, President of the Medical Image Perception Society, and Past Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. She serves on editorial boards for both radiology and telemedicine journals and is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare.

Dr. Krupinski is an experimental psychologist with research interests in medical image perception, observer performance, medical decision making, and human factors as they pertain to radiology and telemedicine. The goal of her research is to improve our understanding of the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying the interpretation of medical images in order to reduce errors, improve training, and optimize the reading environment, thereby improving patient care and outcomes.

Giovanni Morana graduated at Medical School in 1986; in 1992 he completed the Radiological Residency at the University of Verona. From october 1988 to september 2004 he has been a Clinical Staff Member in the Department of Radiology of the University of Verona. From September 2004 he is Chief of the Radiological Department of the Treviso General Hospital. He was habilitated for full Professorship in Radiology in 2014. He has published 60 papers, 25 chapters of book, 82 abstracts and 36 posters. His posters have been prized in several international meetings. He has been given more than 250 lectures either in national and international meetings.

He has been organized several meetings mainly focused on body MR and Gastro-intestinal imaging.

Tanya W. Moseley, MD has distinguished herself as a top-notch radiologist, clinician, educator, researcher, and leader in her field. She is a world-class teacher of undergraduates, residents, fellows, medical students, and breast imaging technologists. She has supervised and trained numerous visiting scientists, residents, and fellows over the past 20 years. Dr. Moseley is a former Fellowship Director of Breast Imaging, and developed an outstanding Breast Ultrasound Course at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. In 2017 Dr. Moseley received the University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.She is the past Breast Section Program Chair and Breast Section Course Director of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) Case-Based Imaging Review Breast Section. Dr. Moseley lectures all over the world and is known for simplifying the complex. Dr. Moseley received her Doctorate of Medicine with Honors at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa. She entered a Clinical Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and continued on at the Mayo Clinic in a Clinical Fellowship in Mammography and Thoracic Imaging. After completing her fellowship, Dr. Moseley joined Mayo Clinic as a Senior Associate Consultant, and then joined the Division of Diagnostic Imaging at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is presently a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Breast Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson.

Breast Cancer Imaging, Diagnostic Imaging,Diagnotic Radiology, Breast Surgical Oncology.

Dr. Hyoung K. Lee is Associate Professor and Chair of Nuclear Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Lee has his expertise in radiation detection and imaging. He has worked in teaching hospitals as a medical physicist and has also been a faculty member in academia since receiving his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research area includes radiation detector design and characterization, advanced radiation sources, advanced imaging systems using x-ray, gamma ray or neutron, algorithms for CT reconstruction, image processing, image analysis, and application of deep learning for medical imaging. He has successfully conducted many research projects that covered a wide spectrum of radiation detection and imaging technologies, from development of radiation detectors to development of image enhancement algorithms (some of which were transferred to industry). His current research includes development of flat-panel x-ray sources, compact x-ray tubes for stationary cardiac CT and switchable radioisotopes for imaging and other applications. He has published more than one-hundred forty peer-reviewed publications and edited a book chapter in his field of research. He has also given twenty-five invited lectures and one-hundred and nine abstracted talks.

Radiation Imaging, Computer Tomography, X-Ray Source, Nuclear Engineering

Ken Miles is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London and Senior Medical Officer at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane. He is dual-trained in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and has wide experience in Positron Emission Tomography, having been involved in the establishment of four PET centres worldwide. His research interests include the development and evaluation of advanced quatitative imaging techniques in oncology. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications and contributed to or edited 11 books in Radiology. Ken is a past editor in chief of the journal Cancer Imaging.

Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, Medical Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography

Jaime Tisnado graduated from Leoncio Prado Military Academy. He received his BM degree from San Marcos National University, College of Sciences. He received his MD degree summa cum laude from the same San Marcos National University Medical School. He was an Intern at GBMC, a division of John's Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, MD, 1965, and then an Intern and Resident in Surgery at The State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse NY, 1966-67. He was a Resident in Radiology for 4 years at Thomas Jefferson University Medical Center in Philadelphia, 1967-71. Then he took 2 years fellowships in Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology both at the same institution, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, 1971-73. He then became an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Director of Interventional Radiology at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, 1974-77. Thereafter he moved to Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA, where he became Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of Interventional Radiology and eventually became Professor of Radiology and Professor of Surgery, at the same university from 1985 till 2010. Thereafter, he was named one of the few Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Surgery, all at the same Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010 till now. He has published more than 100 articles in peer reviewed journals, about 400 scientific posters and electronic exhibits all over the country and the world, and about 200 abstracts, 4 books, many chapters in books, and about 200 papers presented at meetings, at the local, national, and worldwide level. He has been selected many times to Who is Who in America, the Best Radiologists in America, the Best Physicians in USA, etc. Moreover, he is the only person in the country and in the world who has, at the same time and forever, more than 5 fellowships in the most prestigious professional organizations of USA.

Radiology, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Neuroradiology

Dr Partha S Choudhury is an internationally acclaimed leading Nuclear Medicine Physician of India with special interest in Radionuclide Therapy of various types of cancers. He has more than 25 years of experience in Nuclear Oncology. He is heading the department in this institute since 1998 and has been instrumental in its sustained growth over the last 18 years. He has introduced and standardized new procedures in the department both in terms of disease specific diagnostic and molecular imaging & molecular therapy. He is an invited speaker in conferences and symposiums across many countries, the main ones being United Kingdom, Austria, South Africa and South America. He is an avid clinical researcher with publications in peer reviewed journals. He is a technical co-operation consultant of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Vienna

Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Imaging,Thyroid cancer , Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer & Neuroendocrine tumors

Prof. Juan de Dios Berna Mestre has more than 10 years of hospital care as radiologist, as well as teaching at the medical school. In his research career there are publications on various topics, especially on new techniques of ultrasound. Although is main field is musculoskeletal radiology, one of its main lines of research is the development of a new technique for the imaging diagnosis of the male urethra: The Clamp Method.

Medical Imaging, Radiology, Musculoskeletal Radiology

Kenji Suzuki, Ph.D. (by Published Work; Nagoya University) worked at Hitachi Medical Corporation, Japan, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan, as a faculty member, and in Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, as Assistant Professor. In 2014, he joined Department of Electric and Computer Engineering and Medical Imaging Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, as Associate Professor. In 2017, he was jointly appointed in World Research Hub Initiative at Tokyo Institute of Technology as Full Professor (Specially Appointed). He published more than 320 papers (including 110 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals). His papers were cited more than 8,500 times by other researchers. He has an h-index of 42. He is inventor on 30 patents (including 13 granted patents), which were licensed to several companies and commercialized. He published 10 books and 22 book chapters, and edited 13 journal special issues. He was awarded/co-awarded more than 25 grants as PI including NIH R01 and ACS. He served as the Editor of a number of leading international journals, including Pattern Recognition and Medical Physics. He served as a referee for 80 international journals, an organizer of 30 international conferences, and a program committee member of 150 international conferences. He gave 95 invited talks and keynote speeches at international conferences and universities. His research was covered in 42 articles in international newspapers, magazines and journals by press and media. He received 25 awards, including 3 RSNA Certificate of Merit Awards, IEEE Outstanding Member Award, Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Kurt Rossmann Award for Excellence in Teaching from Univ of Chicago, IEICE 2014 Best Journal Paper Award, Springer-Nature EANM Most Cited Journal Paper Award 2016, and Marquis Who’s Who 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

Electric and Computer Engineering, Medical Imaging , Medical Physics

Professor Kattesh V. Katti is internationally recognized as a leader in the interconnecting fields of—chemistry, radiopharmaceutical sciences, nanotechnology/green nanotechnology and nanomedicine—for biomedical applications, specifically for molecular imaging and therapy of living subjects. Dr. Katti has been awarded a number of international awards and citations which include: Winner of the 2016 'Person of the Year in Science' award by Vijayavani, India's most influential newspaper with over 75 million readership base. Dr. Katti has been selected for this coveted award for his pioneering research to connect India's 5000 year old traditional holistic medicine (Ayurveda) with scientifically sound nanomedicine through his ingenious green nanotechnology research. This work has created a new field of holistic medicine which Dr. Katti refers to as nano-ayurvedic medicine. International Hevesy Medal Award (2015) for excellence in Nuclear Sciences; Elected to the fellowship of the National Academy of Inventors (2015) recognizing the discovery of ‘Katti Peptides’; One of the ‘25 Most Influential Scientists In Molecular Imaging in the World’ award by RT Image, the ‘Father of Green Nanotechnology’ citation by the Nobel Prize Winner Norman Borlaug, Gauss Professorship—Hall of Fame—from the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, ‘Outstanding Scientists Fellows’ award and induction as a Fellow of the Academy of Science, St Louis—one of the oldest scientific academies of the world and many more. In 2013, Dr. Katti was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science with a citation “for distinguished contributions encompassing nanoscale chemistry, particularly for ground breaking discoveries enabling application of nanotechnology concepts for biomedical applications”. His unprecedented discovery of the production of tumor specific gold nanoparticles through 100% green processes have been cited as the Editor’s choice in Nature, Future Medicine, in Science (AAAS), in Popular Science, by the Discovery Channel and have been highlighted in scientific/medical programs of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, London).

Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Green Nanotechnology in Nanomedicine, Innovations in Green Nanotechnology, Radiopharmaceutical Sciences in molecular imaging and therapy, Metals/Organometallics In the Development of Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents ,Biomedical Optical Imaging

Apostolos Karantanas was born in Larissa, Greece. He graduated the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece at 1983. Dr. Karantanas completed the Radiology training in University Ηospital of Ioannina. He undertook musculoskeletal training on metabolic bone disorders in New York University Medical Center and on MR imaging MSK applications in Manchester Medical School/Manchester Royal Infirmary. He has been given 370 invited lectures in 27 countries and is a regular faculty member in ECR, ISS, Erasmus courses MSK MRI, School of MRI/ESMRMB, ESOR and ESSR. He is the author of 171 Medline/188 Scopus publications (h index 24, citations 2100; Google Scholar citations: 3.450, h index:33, i10 index:82), 6 books, 57 chapters in books and 345 announcements in international conferences. Prof. Karantanas is a reviewer in 21 Medline journals, Editorial Board in two and has been a Guest Editor in 3 issues of medline journals. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leeds and Amsterdam. Prof. Karantanas is currently Professor of Radiology - University of Crete, Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging and Director of the Laboratory Section - Heraklion University Hospital, Member of the ESOR Programme Planning Committee, Member of the Educational Committee of the European Society of Radiology, Member of the Sports Injuries Subcommittee/ESSR, Affiliated Scientist to the FORTH-institute, General Secretary of the Hellenic College of Radiology, Honorary President of the Radiological Society of Crete, and President of the Hellenic Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology.

His main research is focused on imaging of musculoskeletal disorders including bone marrow, osteoporosis, sports injuries, osteoarthritis, hip joint and applications of newer MR sequences and advanced models of data analysis in perfusion and diffusion imaging. He is past President of European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology and past member of the Educational Committee of the European Association of Radiology.

Mallikarjunarao Kasam has completed his PhD from Osmania University, India and postdoctoral studies from UPENN, NYU School of Medicine and from Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN USA. He is the director and Chief Medical Physicist at SMPC LLC, a medical physics consulting service organization. He has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals.

Dr. Mallikarjunarao Kasam research interest includes innovative methodology developments of MRI, MRA, MRV, CT, MRSI, CTP, DTI and fMRI for ischemic stroke, Hemorrhagic stroke and other neurodegenerative diseases/biomarker applications; Volumetric analysis for the regions of ischemic, hematoma and peri-hematomal edema regions in both AIS and ICH strokes; Development of new methodologies for the detection of vasculature abnormalities and for the development of database for NEURO (AIS and ICH), body (PAD and renal arteries) and cardiac applications. Non-invasive estimation of microglia activity through MRI/MRA/MRV in the above pathological tissues;The study of CST damage, and clinical / functional scale correlation etc. after ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Mapping of different metabolites for the normal subjects and subjects with Ischemic stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage; Developing novel, multinuclear (23Na, 17O, 13C, F19 and 1H) MRI, MRS applications magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopic techniques for early diagnosis and quantification of physiological and functional parameters in pathologies such as ischemic stroke and ICH stroke.

Haohua Tu received the BS degree during the year 1992 in Engineering from TsingHua University, Beijing, China, and the PhD degree during the year 2001 in Engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Scientist at University of North Carolina, and at University of California-Merced. Since 2005, he has been a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana. He has 54 peer-reviewed publications, 41 conference proceedings, and multiple patents in the fields of biomedical optical imaging, photonics device development, optical physics, and chemical engineering.

He has 54 peer-reviewed publications, 41 conference proceedings, and multiple patents in the fields of biomedical optical imaging, photonics device development, optical physics, and chemical engineering.

Michael Goris has a Medical degree from the University of Leuven in Belgium and a PhD degree in Medical Physics from UC Berkeley. He has been a Professor in the Stanford Medical School and is Emeritus since 2012 and served as a Chairman for University panel on Radiation safety during 2003-2010. He has more than 120 publications in peer reviewed, journals. His research interests are Radio-immunotherapy, Medical Imaging Processing and Quantification for diagnosis Clinical validations.

Michael Goris research interest includes radio-immunotherapy, medical imaging processing and Quantification for diagnosis and clinical validations.

Binsheng Zhao received her D.Sc. degree in 1994 from University of Heidelberg, Germany. She is currently a Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Director of Computational Image Analysis Lab in the Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.

Binsheng Zhao current research interests include computer-aided cancer detection, diagnosis, response prediction and assessment in multiple diseases in oncology as well as imaging harmonization for quantitative image analysis.

Dr. Zweit is a professor of Radiology, and affiliate professor of Radiation Oncology, Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He is also the Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging at VCU School of Medicine. He leads an inter-disciplinary and inter-collaborative molecular imaging research program that emphasizes multi-modality approaches to study biochemical and biological pathways in vivo. Professor Zweit’s research interests include the development of paradigms for molecular imaging and nanotechnology strategies for preclinical and clinical translational research in cancer biology and therapeutics. He is internationally recognized for his work in molecular imaging of cancer drug development, and conducted the “world’s first” Molecular PET Imaging clinical trial of Anti-angiogenic therapy in cancer patients (Journal National Cancer Institute 2002). Professor Zweit serves as an advisor on a number of committees, including the Cancer Research UK Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacokinetic Technologies Advisory Committee (Journal National Cancer Institute, 2006). He serves on the review body of a number of funding organizations, both in Europe and North America. He has supervised a total of 24 MSc, MD and PhD theses. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles, over 250 conference abstracts, and 6 review articles and book chapters. Professor Zweit obtained his PhD and DSc from the University of Manchester Medical School. Prior to that, He studied for an MSc degree in PET Pharmacology. He received his Nuclear Medicine training at the John F. Kennedy Medical Centre in New Jersey, and attended advanced Nuclear Medicine training at the Brooklyn Hospital in New York. As an Undergraduate, he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree, in Radiation Biophysics, with a Biochemistry double major, from the University of Kansas.

Multi-modality molecular and cellular imaging. Biologically targeted probe development and ulti-probe pre-clinical imaging. Nano-particle and quantum dot molecular and cellular imaging. Translational clinical molecular imaging in drug development. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics studies in oncology and neuroscience.

Dr. Hesham El Sheikh, Medicine doctor (MD- Medicine), now is a Professor of Radiology. He got his BSc in medicine, MSc in Radiology, MD degree at Benha University, Egypt. Dr: Hesham is an old friend as a speaker for word cancer congress (WCC) that usually held in China. He has published more than 21 papers in reputed journals

Dr. Hesham El Sheikh researches focus on identification of sonographic and mammographic features of intraductal breast masses that may be associated with malignancy.

Dr. Roberson graduated from Baylor University, National Merit Scholar and Honors Program. Medical degree at the University of Texas, Southwestern. Resident in Radiology at Baylor Hospital; Dallas, Texas followed by a fellowship in neuroradiology at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and subsequently Director of Neuroradiology. He was instructor of Radiology, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and was Chief of Neuroradiology at Massachusetts General. Dr. Roberson was Chair of Radiology, Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY, Medical Director of Computerized Medical Imaging in Sherman Oaks California and Chair of Radiology at Texas Tech University at Lubbock, Texas. Chief of Neuroradiology, UAB 15 years. He has authored or co-authored 105 peer-reviewed articles and 13 book chapters. He completed a master degree in Medical Management at the University of Texas in Dallas in 2000. He served as an oral examiner for the American Board of Radiology.

Radiology

Professor Cho received Ph.D, in physics, from Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden in Physics. Since then he has been faculty of UCLA, Columbia University, and University of California, Irvine. Last ten years, he served as a Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University and established one of the leading PET-MRI brain imaging centers in the world. Professor Cho is an early pioneer of CT and PET, developing world’s first circular ring PET (at UCLA, 1975) and BGO (PET-detector, 1976) and more recently 7.0T MRI+PET Fusion Brain Imaging System at NRI, in Korea. Currently Professor Cho is serving as a Distinguished Research Fellow at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and also as a member of National Academy of Medicine, Washington D.C. USA. He has 334 publications & 5695 citations.

Professor Cho received Ph.D, in physics, from Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden in Physics. Since then he has been faculty of UCLA, Columbia University, and University of California, Irvine.

Bin Zheng received his PhD from University of Delaware in 1993. After working in Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh for 20 years, he joined faculty in University of Oklahoma in 2013 as a Professor at School of Electrical and Computer Engieering and Oklahoma TSET cancer research scholar at Stephensn Cancer Center. Since 1998, he has served as PI in five R01 and one R21 grant awards from NCI, NIH, one DOD breast cancer project, and subcontract PI of two other NIH R01 grant awards. Currently, he is AIMBE fellow and an editor-in-chief of Journal of X-ray Science and Technology.

He has served as PI in five R01 and one R21 grant awards from NCI, NIH, one DOD breast cancer project, and subcontract PI of two other NIH R01 grant awards.

Faiq Shaikh received the M.B.,B.S. degree (2006) from Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Pakistan. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in Cancer Imaging at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2007-2009). His post-graduate clinical training includes Surgery Internship at Montefiore Medical Center (2009-2010), nuclear medicine residency at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2010-2013), Positron Emission Tomography Fellowship at University of Iowa (2014-2015) and an Imaging Informatics fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (2015-). He has a book chapter and 17 publications in the fields of Nuclear therapeutics, Cancer Imaging, Genetic/Molecular Imaging and Imaging Informatics. He is an editor and reviewer of multiple scientific journal and is the CEO of a biotechnology startup focusing on educational informatics.

Cancer Imaging

Norio Tagawa received the M.E. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1989 and the D.E. degree from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1995. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. in 1989, and now a Professor in the Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

His research interests are in computational vision and medical ultrasound. engineering.

Dr. Veith graduated from Cornell and completed his residency at the Brigham and Harvard. In the 1970s and 1980s, he performed pioneering work in lung transplantation while his clinical interest involved Vascular Surgery focusing on limb revascularizations and an aggressive approach to saving threatened limbs when most patients with this problem underwent amputation. In the late 1980s, Dr. Veith became involved with endovascular treatments. His group performed the first US EVAR and the first EVAR for a ruptured AAA. Dr.Veith has been a leading advocate for the recognition of Vascular Surgery as a separate, distinct specialty. He is now Professor of Surgery at NYU and the Cleveland Clinic and leads the largest Vascular meeting held annually in New York City.

He performed pioneering work in lung transplantation while his clinical interest involved Vascular Surgery focusing on limb revascularizations and an aggressive approach to saving threatened limbs when most patients with this problem underwent amputation.

Bin Zhu is the director of the department of Radiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Radiology

Professor Sanjay Gandhi is a senior attending radiologist at one of the largest teaching hospitals and regional trauma units in the UK. For the past 17 years, he has been teaching the University of Bristol and University of West of England trainees. As Honorary Professor he also teaches at Sri Devaraj Urs University, India. He has won multiple academic awards and has been involved in numerous research projects and collaborative trials. Professor Gandhi has published widely on use cutting-edge technology and co-authored and edited eight medical textbooks. He is an internationally recognized leader in HealthcareIT and development of smart Apps

His research interest in regional trauma units and he is an internationally recognized leader in HealthcareIT and development of smart Apps

Giovanni Morana graduated at Medical School in 1986; in 1992 he completed the Radiological Residency at the University of Verona. From october 1988 to september 2004 he has been a Clinical Staff Member in the Department of Radiology of the University of Verona. From September 2004 he is Chief of the Radiological Department of the Treviso General Hospital. He was habilitated for full Professorship in Radiology in 2014. He has published 60 papers, 25 chapters of book, 82 abstracts and 36 posters. His posters have been prized in several international meetings. He has been given more than 250 lectures either in national and international meetings.

He has been organized several meetings mainly focused on body MR and Gastro-intestinal imaging.

Dr. Krupinski is a Professor at Emory University in the Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences where she is Vice-Chair for Research. She received her BA from Cornell, MA from Montclair State and PhD from Temple, all in Experimental Psychology. Her interests are in medical image perception, observer performance, medical decision making, and human factors. She is Associate Director of Evaluation for the Arizona Telemedicine Program and Director of the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center (SWTRC). She has published extensively in these areas, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. She is Past Chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Past President of the American Telemedicine Association, President of the Medical Image Perception Society, and Past Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. She serves on editorial boards for both radiology and telemedicine journals and is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare.

Her interests are in medical image perception, observer performance, medical decision making, and human factors.

Dr. Krupinski is a Professor at Emory University in the Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences where she is Vice-Chair for Research. She received her BA from Cornell, MA from Montclair State and PhD from Temple, all in Experimental Psychology. Her interests are in medical image perception, observer performance, medical decision making, and human factors. She is Associate Director of Evaluation for the Arizona Telemedicine Program and Director of the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center (SWTRC). She has published extensively in these areas, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. She is Past Chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Past President of the American Telemedicine Association, President of the Medical Image Perception Society, and Past Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. She serves on editorial boards for both radiology and telemedicine journals and is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare.

Giovanni Morana graduated at Medical School in 1986; in 1992 he completed the Radiological Residency at the University of Verona. From october 1988 to september 2004 he has been a Clinical Staff Member in the Department of Radiology of the University of Verona. From September 2004 he is Chief of the Radiological Department of the Treviso General Hospital. He was habilitated for full Professorship in Radiology in 2014. He has published 60 papers, 25 chapters of book, 82 abstracts and 36 posters. His posters have been prized in several international meetings. He has been given more than 250 lectures either in national and international meetings.

He has been organized several meetings mainly focused on body MR and Gastro-intestinal imaging.

Professor Sanjay Gandhi is a senior attending radiologist at one of the largest teaching hospitals and regional trauma units in the UK. For the past 17 years, he has been teaching the University of Bristol and University of West of England trainees. As Honorary Professor he also teaches at Sri Devaraj Urs University, India. He has won multiple academic awards and has been involved in numerous research projects and collaborative trials. Professor Gandhi has published widely on use cutting-edge technology and co-authored and edited eight medical textbooks. He is an internationally recognized leader in HealthcareIT and development of smart Apps.

Bin Zhu is the director of the department of Radiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Dr. Veith graduated from Cornell and completed his residency at the Brigham and Harvard. In the 1970s and 1980s, he performed pioneering work in lung transplantation while his clinical interest involved Vascular Surgery focusing on limb revascularizations and an aggressive approach to saving threatened limbs when most patients with this problem underwent amputation. In the late 1980s, Dr. Veith became involved with endovascular treatments. His group performed the first US EVAR and the first EVAR for a ruptured AAA. Dr.Veith has been a leading advocate for the recognition of Vascular Surgery as a separate, distinct specialty. He is now Professor of Surgery at NYU and the Cleveland Clinic and leads the largest Vascular meeting held annually in New York City.

Norio Tagawa received the M.E. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1989 and the D.E. degree from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1995. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. in 1989, and now a Professor in the Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University. His research interests are in computational vision and medical ultrasound. engineering.

Faiq Shaikh received the M.B.,B.S. degree (2006) from Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Pakistan. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in Cancer Imaging at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2007-2009). His post-graduate clinical training includes Surgery Internship at Montefiore Medical Center (2009-2010), nuclear medicine residency at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2010-2013), Positron Emission Tomography Fellowship at University of Iowa (2014-2015) and an Imaging Informatics fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (2015-). He has a book chapter and 17 publications in the fields of Nuclear therapeutics, Cancer Imaging, Genetic/Molecular Imaging and Imaging Informatics. He is an editor and reviewer of multiple scientific journal and is the CEO of a biotechnology startup focusing on educational informatics.

Bin Zheng received his PhD from University of Delaware in 1993. After working in Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh for 20 years, he joined faculty in University of Oklahoma in 2013 as a Professor at School of Electrical and Computer Engieering and Oklahoma TSET cancer research scholar at Stephensn Cancer Center. Since 1998, he has served as PI in five R01 and one R21 grant awards from NCI, NIH, one DOD breast cancer project, and subcontract PI of two other NIH R01 grant awards. Currently, he is AIMBE fellow and an editor-in-chief of Journal of X-ray Science and Technology.

Professor Cho received Ph.D, in physics, from Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden in Physics. Since then he has been faculty of UCLA, Columbia University, and University of California, Irvine. Last ten years, he served as a Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University and established one of the leading PET-MRI brain imaging centers in the world. Professor Cho is an early pioneer of CT and PET, developing world’s first circular ring PET (at UCLA, 1975) and BGO (PET-detector, 1976) and more recently 7.0T MRI+PET Fusion Brain Imaging System at NRI, in Korea. Currently Professor Cho is serving as a Distinguished Research Fellow at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and also as a member of National Academy of Medicine, Washington D.C. USA. He has 334 publications & 5695 citations.

Dr. Roberson graduated from Baylor University, National Merit Scholar and Honors Program. Medical degree at the University of Texas, Southwestern. Resident in Radiology at Baylor Hospital; Dallas, Texas followed by a fellowship in neuroradiology at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and subsequently Director of Neuroradiology. He was instructor of Radiology, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and was Chief of Neuroradiology at Massachusetts General. Dr. Roberson was Chair of Radiology, Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY, Medical Director of Computerized Medical Imaging in Sherman Oaks California and Chair of Radiology at Texas Tech University at Lubbock, Texas. Chief of Neuroradiology, UAB 15 years. He has authored or co-authored 105 peer-reviewed articles and 13 book chapters. He completed a master degree in Medical Management at the University of Texas in Dallas in 2000. He served as an oral examiner for the American Board of Radiology.

Dr. Hesham El Sheikh, Medicine doctor (MD- Medicine), now is a Professor of Radiology. He got his BSc in medicine, MSc in Radiology, MD degree at Benha University, Egypt. Dr: Hesham is an old friend as a speaker for word cancer congress (WCC) that usually held in China. He has published more than 21 papers in reputed journals

Dr. Hesham El Sheikh researches focus on identification of sonographic and mammographic features of intraductal breast masses that may be associated with malignancy.

Dr. Zweit is a professor of Radiology, and affiliate professor of Radiation Oncology, Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He is also the Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging at VCU School of Medicine. He leads an inter-disciplinary and inter-collaborative molecular imaging research program that emphasizes multi-modality approaches to study biochemical and biological pathways in vivo. Professor Zweit’s research interests include the development of paradigms for molecular imaging and nanotechnology strategies for preclinical and clinical translational research in cancer biology and therapeutics. He is internationally recognized for his work in molecular imaging of cancer drug development, and conducted the “world’s first” Molecular PET Imaging clinical trial of Anti-angiogenic therapy in cancer patients (Journal National Cancer Institute 2002). Professor Zweit serves as an advisor on a number of committees, including the Cancer Research UK Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacokinetic Technologies Advisory Committee (Journal National Cancer Institute, 2006). He serves on the review body of a number of funding organizations, both in Europe and North America. He has supervised a total of 24 MSc, MD and PhD theses. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles, over 250 conference abstracts, and 6 review articles and book chapters. Professor Zweit obtained his PhD and DSc from the University of Manchester Medical School. Prior to that, He studied for an MSc degree in PET Pharmacology. He received his Nuclear Medicine training at the John F. Kennedy Medical Centre in New Jersey, and attended advanced Nuclear Medicine training at the Brooklyn Hospital in New York. As an Undergraduate, he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree, in Radiation Biophysics, with a Biochemistry double major, from the University of Kansas.

Multi-modality molecular and cellular imaging. Biologically targeted probe development and ulti-probe pre-clinical imaging. Nano-particle and quantum dot molecular and cellular imaging. Translational clinical molecular imaging in drug development. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics studies in oncology and neuroscience.

Binsheng Zhao received her D.Sc. degree in 1994 from University of Heidelberg, Germany. She is currently a Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Director of Computational Image Analysis Lab in the Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.

Binsheng Zhao current research interests include computer-aided cancer detection, diagnosis, response prediction and assessment in multiple diseases in oncology as well as imaging harmonization for quantitative image analysis

Michael Goris has a Medical degree from the University of Leuven in Belgium and a PhD degree in Medical Physics from UC Berkeley. He has been a Professor in the Stanford Medical School and is Emeritus since 2012 and served as a Chairman for University panel on Radiation safety during 2003-2010. He has more than 120 publications in peer reviewed, journals. His research interests are Radio-immunotherapy, Medical Imaging Processing and Quantification for diagnosis Clinical validations.

Michael Goris research interest includes radio-immunotherapy, medical imaging processing and Quantification for diagnosis and clinical validations.

Haohua Tu received the BS degree during the year 1992 in Engineering from TsingHua University, Beijing, China, and the PhD degree during the year 2001 in Engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Scientist at University of North Carolina, and at University of California-Merced. Since 2005, he has been a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana. He has 54 peer-reviewed publications, 41 conference proceedings, and multiple patents in the fields of biomedical optical imaging, photonics device development, optical physics, and chemical engineering.

Mallikarjunarao Kasam has completed his PhD from Osmania University, India and postdoctoral studies from UPENN, NYU School of Medicine and from Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN USA. He is the director and Chief Medical Physicist at SMPC LLC, a medical physics consulting service organization. He has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals.

Dr. Mallikarjunarao Kasam research interest includes innovative methodology developments of MRI, MRA, MRV, CT, MRSI, CTP, DTI and fMRI for ischemic stroke, Hemorrhagic stroke and other neurodegenerative diseases/biomarker applications; Volumetric analysis for the regions of ischemic, hematoma and peri-hematomal edema regions in both AIS and ICH strokes; Development of new methodologies for the detection of vasculature abnormalities and for the development of database for NEURO (AIS and ICH), body (PAD and renal arteries) and cardiac applications. Non-invasive estimation of microglia activity through MRI/MRA/MRV in the above pathological tissues;The study of CST damage, and clinical / functional scale correlation etc. after ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Mapping of different metabolites for the normal subjects and subjects with Ischemic stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage; Developing novel, multinuclear (23Na, 17O, 13C, F19 and 1H) MRI, MRS applications magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopic techniques for early diagnosis and quantification of physiological and functional parameters in pathologies such as ischemic stroke and ICH stroke.

Apostolos Karantanas was born in Larissa, Greece. He graduated the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece at 1983. Dr. Karantanas completed the Radiology training in University Ηospital of Ioannina. He undertook musculoskeletal training on metabolic bone disorders in New York University Medical Center and on MR imaging MSK applications in Manchester Medical School/Manchester Royal Infirmary. He has been given 370 invited lectures in 27 countries and is a regular faculty member in ECR, ISS, Erasmus courses MSK MRI, School of MRI/ESMRMB, ESOR and ESSR. He is the author of 171 Medline/188 Scopus publications (h index 24, citations 2100; Google Scholar citations: 3.450, h index:33, i10 index:82), 6 books, 57 chapters in books and 345 announcements in international conferences. Prof. Karantanas is a reviewer in 21 Medline journals, Editorial Board in two and has been a Guest Editor in 3 issues of medline journals. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leeds and Amsterdam. Prof. Karantanas is currently Professor of Radiology - University of Crete, Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging and Director of the Laboratory Section - Heraklion University Hospital, Member of the ESOR Programme Planning Committee, Member of the Educational Committee of the European Society of Radiology, Member of the Sports Injuries Subcommittee/ESSR, Affiliated Scientist to the FORTH-institute, General Secretary of the Hellenic College of Radiology, Honorary President of the Radiological Society of Crete, and President of the Hellenic Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology.

His main research is focused on imaging of musculoskeletal disorders including bone marrow, osteoporosis, sports injuries, osteoarthritis, hip joint and applications of newer MR sequences and advanced models of data analysis in perfusion and diffusion imaging. He is past President of European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology and past member of the Educational Committee of the European Association of Radiology.

Dr. Habib Zaidi is senior physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital. He received a Ph.D. in medical physics from GenevaUniversity for a dissertation on Monte Carlo modelling and scatter correction in positron emission tomography. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by the Medical School of Geneva University, which elected him to become faculty member as Privat-Docent. Dr. Zaidi is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge biomedical research and clinical diagnosis in addition to lecturing graduate and postgraduate courses on medical physics and medical imaging. His research centre on modelling nuclear medical imaging systems using the Monte Carlo method, dosimetry, image correction, reconstruction and quantification techniques in emission tomography as well as statistical image analysis in functional brain imaging, and more recently on novel design of dedicated high-resolution PET scanners in collaboration within the Computed Imaging for Medical Applications (CIMA) collaboration hosted by CERN.

Professor Kattesh V. Katti is internationally recognized as a leader in the interconnecting fields of—chemistry, radiopharmaceutical sciences, nanotechnology/green nanotechnology and nanomedicine—for biomedical applications, specifically for molecular imaging and therapy of living subjects. Dr. Katti has been awarded a number of international awards and citations which include: Winner of the 2016 'Person of the Year in Science' award by Vijayavani, India's most influential newspaper with over 75 million readership base. Dr. Katti has been selected for this coveted award for his pioneering research to connect India's 5000 year old traditional holistic medicine (Ayurveda) with scientifically sound nanomedicine through his ingenious green nanotechnology research. This work has created a new field of holistic medicine which Dr. Katti refers to as nano-ayurvedic medicine. International Hevesy Medal Award (2015) for excellence in Nuclear Sciences; Elected to the fellowship of the National Academy of Inventors (2015) recognizing the discovery of ‘Katti Peptides’; One of the ‘25 Most Influential Scientists In Molecular Imaging in the World’ award by RT Image, the ‘Father of Green Nanotechnology’ citation by the Nobel Prize Winner Norman Borlaug, Gauss Professorship—Hall of Fame—from the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, ‘Outstanding Scientists Fellows’ award and induction as a Fellow of the Academy of Science, St Louis—one of the oldest scientific academies of the world and many more. In 2013, Dr. Katti was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science with a citation “for distinguished contributions encompassing nanoscale chemistry, particularly for ground breaking discoveries enabling application of nanotechnology concepts for biomedical applications”. His unprecedented discovery of the production of tumor specific gold nanoparticles through 100% green processes have been cited as the Editor’s choice in Nature, Future Medicine, in Science (AAAS), in Popular Science, by the Discovery Channel and have been highlighted in scientific/medical programs of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, London).

Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Green Nanotechnology in Nanomedicine, Innovations in Green Nanotechnology, Radiopharmaceutical Sciences in molecular imaging and therapy, Metals/Organometallics In the Development of Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents ,Biomedical Optical Imaging