Course director
Dr Nishat Bharwani
Dr Nishat Bharwani is a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She qualified with honours from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ Medical School in 2000 and undertook basic medical training in London and Brighton, obtaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. She completed general Radiology training at St George's Hospital (2003-2008) and a fellowship in body MRI at Barts and The London NHS Trust (2008-2010), becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2008. Her radiological interests include gynaecological imaging, oncological imaging and urological imaging and she has published in these areas. Dr Bharwani is heavily involved in teaching as joint Training Programme Director for Radiology trainees at Imperial, lead for the NW London panel writing MCQs for the FRCR 2A examination, and regularly delivers lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally.
Faculty profiles
Dr Usman Bashir
Dr Usman Bashir trained as a radiologist in 2012 at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, Pakistan. In the UK, he undertook further fellowship training at the Royal Marsden and King’s College Hospitals in London. He then completed a research fellowship at St Thomas’ Hospital in 2017, which involved developing machine learning algorithms in cancer imaging.
Since joining Barts Health NHS in 2018 as a consultant radiologist, Dr Bashir has been supporting the cancer imaging group, with a particular focus on urologic imaging. He is also developing an AI research program at Barts which aims to improve cancer detection and quantification from CT scans.
Dr Narayan Karunanithy
Dr Narayan Karunanithy qualified in 1999 with honours from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School. After completing basic surgical and radiology training, he undertook fellowship training in interventional radiology at Imperial College London and musculoskeletal radiology at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He was appointed consultant interventional radiologist and honorary clinical lecturer at Guy’s and St Thomas’ in 2010. His specialist interests include: venous diseases; urology, renal, transplant and vascular access radiology in adults and children; and magnetic resonance and computerised tomography angiography. Research interests include applications of non contrast and other novel MR angiographic techniques to image renal/peripheral arteries and deep veins.
Dr Miranda Harvie
Dr Miranda Harvie trained in the Auckland Radiology Program in NZ before moving to London. She describes herself as a grassroots radiologist who has had to adapt to the needs of a busy West London DGH at Ealing Hospital, working there from 2003-2022. Since retiring from the NHS she has been working for Everlight Radiology and Circle Health Group.
Over the 2 decades in the NHS she has had to cover nearly every gamut of general radiology to cover areas of need as they arose and is now truly a generalist but with special interest in GI and Gynae imaging. She has been fortunate to work and train with expert GI colleagues at St Mark’s Hospital and would like to share some of the top tips she has learned in colorectal MRI.
Dr Amish Lakhani
Dr Amish Lakhani is a Consultant Oncological and Genitourinary Radiologist at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is the lead radiologist for the Mount Vernon CyberKnife MDT and a core member of the specialist Uro-oncology MDTs at Imperial.
He completed his medical training at the University of Cambridge and University College London where he graduated with Distinction.
Following completion of his specialist radiology training at Imperial College he was appointed Clinical Fellow in Oncological Imaging at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
He has special interests in whole-body MRI, PET-CT, image-guided radiotherapy planning and multi-parametric prostate MRI.
Dr Lakhani is the radiology training lead at Mount Vernon. He is an invited examiner on several FRCR courses and is Clinical Supervisor for radiology trainees.
He is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He has presented internationally, published in international journals and has been awarded national and international prizes.