Gold Medal Award Recipients

Academic Positions, Leadership & Service to the CMR Community

• Director, Inst. Biological & Medical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London
• Associate Editor for JCMR, member of the SCMR Board of Trustees

Research

• Pioneering work in non-invasive free-breathing coronary MR angiography
• Many CMR innovations: novel MRI pulse sequences, motion correction and quantitative imaging techniques & AI for early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, all-in-one 3D cardiac MRI, molecular MRI of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction using new target-specific contrast agents
• 350+ peer-reviewed original articles, 12 patents related to MRI technology

Academic Positions, Leadership & Service to the CMR Community

• Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Barts Heart Centre, UK
• Cardiovascular Programme Director of UCL Partners Academic Medical Centre
  President European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)

CMR Clinical Service

• Active since 1998, performs and reports 1,000+ cardiac MRI scans annually

CMR Research

• Innovative outcomes focused research & studies: clinical trials using CMR, cost-effectiveness analysis in cardiac imaging, and primary prevention
• Lead for cardiac imaging in the UK Biobank, specializing in large-scale population studies, innovative applications of AI in large cohort studies