International Prostate MRI Working Group: Organization and Structure

Chair

Faina Shtern, MD, President, AdMeTech Foundation

Co-Chair

Constantine Gatsonis, PhD, Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics, Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University

Co-Chair

Jelle Barentsz, MD, Chair, Prostate MR-Center of Excellence, Professor of Radiology, Radboud University of Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands

Co-Chair

Mitchell D. Schnall, MD, PhD, Eugene P. Pendergrass Professor of Radiology, Chair, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania

Peter Choyke, MD, Program Director, Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute

Hedvig Hricak, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Daniel Margolis, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Co-Director of Prostate Imaging, University of California Los Angeles

Jurgen Futterer, PhD, Interventional Radiologist, Associate Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands

John Kurhanewicz, PhD, Professor of Radiology and Urology and Director of Biomedical NMR, University of California, San Francisco

Clare Tempany, MD, Ferenc Jolesz Chair of Radiology Research, Brigham and Women’s (BWH) Hospital and Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Masoom Haider, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Toronto, Canada

Anwar Padhani, MD, Consultant Radiologist and Head of Imaging Research, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, United Kingdom

Jeffrey Weinreb, MD, Professor of Radiology, Yale University, chairs a joint AdMeTech and American College of Radiology Steering Committee for the PI-RADS standardization of prostate MRI

Oncology

Philip Kantoff, MD, Chief, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Chief Clinical Research Officer; Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Radiation Oncology

Allan Pollack, MD, Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Pathology

Thomas Wheeler, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology and Professor of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine

Urology

Laurence Klotz, MD, Professor of Urology, University of Toronto, Canada

Patient Advocacy and Consumer Groups

Bob Sherman, Support Group Leader and Member, Us TOO International and Prostate Cancer Research Institute

Sanford Jeames, a Community Health Educator and Patient Advocate representing Us TOO International and the Men of Color Health Awareness program.

Thomas Kirk, President and CEO of US TOO International, the largest network of PC support groups

Jan Manarite, Prostate Cancer Advocate, Educator and Counselor, Helpline, Prostate Cancer Research Institute

Selected Members and Past Meeting Participants

Nandita deSouza, Professor of Translational Imaging, Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research, London

Susan Noworolski, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco

Peter Scardino, MD, Chairman, Department of Surgery, David H. Koch Chair, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Jurgen Futterer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radboud University Nijmegan Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Aytekin Oto, MD, Professor of Radiology and Surgery, Section Chief, Abdominal Imaging, and Director, Body MR Imaging, University of Chicago

Shahin Tabatabaei, MD, Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital

William J. Heetderks, MD, PhD, Director, Extramural Science Programs, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

Roderic Pettigrew, MD, PhD, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

John Tomaszewski, MD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Vice Chair of Anatomic Pathology Hospital Services; Interim Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Leonard Marks, Professor Urology, University of California Los Angeles

Mack Roach III, MD, Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology and Professor, Urology, University of California, San Francisco

Pam Wilcox, Assistant Executive Director, American College of Radiology

Industrial Liaison Board

Hans Beinke

Vice President, Healthcare, USA Country Head, Siemens Medical Solutions, MRI Section of MITA

Richard Eaton
Industry Manager at Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA)

Iris Elliott, PhD
Product Leader, Prostate Care Solutions, Hologic

Tom Tynes
Head of Prostate Program and Bernadette Greenwood, Clinical Product Manager, Oncology, In Vivo and Philips

Berthold Kiefer
MRI Product Definition and Innovation, Siemens

Adrian Knowles
Clinical Development Leader, MRI Division, GE Health Systems

Bayram Ersin
Global MR Body/Vascular Manager, GE Healthcare

Suresh Narayan

Division of MRI Business Development, Toshiba America Medical Systems

Claus Peter Reisinger
Head of Global MRI Marketing, Bayer Healthcare

Sheldon Shaffer
Director of MRI, Hitachi Medical Systems