Course director
Dr Priti Dutta
Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free Hospital, London
Dr Dutta is a consultant interventional radiologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London. She previously served as a consultant interventional radiologist at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
Dr Dutta studied medicine at University College London (UCL), graduating in 2008 with an intercalated BSc in neuroscience.
Her current interests are centred on liver imaging and intervention. She plays an active role in the hospital's regional multidisciplinary team meetings which encompass a wide case mix of hepatobiliary, pancreatic and neuroendocrine tumours, as well as colorectal metastases. She has published on topics including arteriovenous fistula intervention and the relationship of sarcopenia to outcomes in EVAR patients.
She is currently publishing work related to the follow-up of indeterminate liver lesions in cirrhotic patients.
Her day-to-day practice with relation to liver intervention ranges from, transjugular liver biopsies, transarterial liver embolization, liver ablation, portal vein embolization, palliative stenting, TIPS placement and embolization of bleeding varices.
Faculty members
Dr Rashid Akhtar
Consultant Radiologist, Royal London Hospital - Barts Health NHS Trust
Dr Joshua Bell
Consultant Radiologist (GI & HPB), St James's University Hospital Leeds Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Bell studied Medicine at the University of Leeds, graduating in 2012 with an intercalated BSc in a medical imaging.
His interests are centred on liver and pancreatic imaging and he is a member of the regional liver and pancreatic cancer MDTs. He also has an interest in liver transplant imaging, particularly in the assessment of live related donors.
Dr Mahan Mathur
Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Division Chief: Body Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Mathur completed his Diagnostic Radiology Residency from Yale-New Haven Hospital where he served as Chief Resident, followed by a Fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and Intervention at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Since 2013, he has served as faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, where he is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Chief of Body Imaging. Dr. Mathur is passionate about Radiology education and mentorship and has been the recipient of the RSNA honored educator award in 2017 as well as number departmental “Teacher” and “Mentor” of the year awards.
Dr Anthie Papadopoulou
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Ann-Marie Quigley
Consultant in Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Quigley is a Consultant in Nuclear Medicine at the Royal Free, and is also accredited as radiologist.
Her special interests in are in Neuroendocrine imaging and HPB nuclear medicine.
She helps to deliver the radionuclide therapy service, and works closely with the Royal Free interventional radiologists to deliver intra-arterial therapies such as SIRT.
Dr Rushabh Shah
Dr Rushabh Shah started general Radiology training at Chelsea and Westminster hospital followed by Intervention Radiology at the Royal Free Hospital where he is a fellow.
Dr Conrad von Stempel
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals
Dr von Stempel graduated from UCL medical school with an additional BSc in anatomy and developmental biology.
Conrad completed his core radiology training at UCH, and after gaining the FRCR, undertook a 2-year fellowship in interventional radiology at the Royal Free Hospital.
He specialises in vascular and urological interventional radiology procedures including angioplasty, complex venous access, and embolisation therapy.
Conrad also works as an interventional radiologist at the Royal Free hospital. He enjoys teaching and lecturing in imaging, anatomy and embryology at UCH and Keble college, Oxford University.
Dr Wen Ling Woo
Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, London
Dr Nick Woodward
Dr Nick Woodward has been a consultant interventional radiologist at the Royal Free hospital since 2007. His interests include vascular and non-vascular interventions, as well as HPB and vascular imaging. He is part of the HPB cancer MDT team (which encompasses HCC, neuroendocrine, pancreatic and biliary cancers as well as colorectal liver metastases).
Dr Dominic Yu
Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Dominic Yu is a Consultant Radiologist at Royal Free Hospital, London, specialising in hepatobiliary radiology, both diagnostic and interventional. He is particularly interested in liver transplant radiology, management of portal hypertension and radiological treatment of liver tumours.
Dr Tim Yusuf
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Yusuf is a consultant radiologist at King’s College Hospital, with a specialist interest in interventional radiology.
After completing his foundation training in London and Kent he returned to King’s College hospital and completed his radiology training in 2017 and was appointed as a consultant interventional radiologist.
He has since become clinical lead at the DGH site, the Princess Royal University Hospital, and developed the IR department from a limited service to being awarded BSIR pilot status.
Dr Sara Zafar
Consultant Radiologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
After attending medical school at the University of Edinburgh, she completed her foundation and radiology training in the London Deanery at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital as well as the Royal Free.
She also undertook a fellowship in abdominal imaging at the University of Toronto, Canada before returning to London at the end of last year to take up a consultant post.