Biography
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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