International Keynote Speakers
Professor Cynthia McCollough
Mayo Clinic - Minnesota, USA
A recognised leader in the development and evaluation of new CT technology and dose reduction methods, Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD, is the Brooks-Hollern Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she holds the rank of professor in both medical physics and biomedical engineering.
Dr. McCollough is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
She has over 500 peer-reviewed papers and multiple NIH grants related to CT imaging. She has served as the president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and is a vice president of the International Society of Computed Tomography.
She received her master's and doctorate degrees in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison after graduating in physics from Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
Professor Françoise Peyrin
Université Lyon- Lyon, France
Dr Françoise Peyrin received her PhD in Computer Sciences and her “Docteur ès Sciences” degree from INSA-Lyon and Université Lyon I, in 1982 and 1990, respectively. She has been Assistant Professor at INSA-Lyon from 1981 to 1987, and since then a Researcher at INSERM (National Institute for Health and Medical Research). Since 1995, she has been a scientific collaborator at the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), Grenoble, France. She is now Director of Research Emerite at INSERM in Lyon, France.
Dr Peyrin is working in the CREATIS Laboratory (INSERM U1294, CNRS 5220, INSA-Lyon, Université Lyon I, University of Lyon) a team of about 180 staff specializing in medical imaging. She led the team «Tomographic imaging and Radiotherapy » until 2021. Her research interest is in 3D biomedical imaging particularly X-ray tomography, tomographic image reconstruction and image analysis. She has particularly been developing CT imaging methods for the characterisation of bone tissue at the micro and nano scale, as well as at the patient scale.
She has been involved in the IEEE BISP (Bio Imaging and Signal processing) and BIIP (Bio Imaging and Image processing) committees and chairs EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) SAT BISA (Biomedical Image & Signal Analytics). She is an EAMBES (European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science) Fellow.
Dr Karl Lewis
Meinig School - New York, USA
Dr Karl Lewis is an assistant professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to starting his lab at Cornell, he completed his PhD training with Professor Mitch Schaffler at The City College of New York, and a post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Alex Robling at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
The Lewis Lab is working on 3 main focus areas; namely investigation of bone mechanobiology, expanding non-linear microscopy approaches in bone tissue, and establishing the use of novel fluorescent probes for imaging cellular dynamics in vivo.
National Keynote Speakers
Professor Robin Daly
Deakin University - Melbourne, Australia
Professor Robin Daly, PhD, FASMF, FASBMR, holds the position of Chair in Exercise and Ageing and is Head of the Musculoskeletal Health and Mobility group at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has 30 years of experience in conducting clinical and implementation trials to better understand how exercise and nutritional approaches can prevent and manage chronic diseases, particularly osteoporosis, sarcopenia, falls and fractures.
He has used various imaging modalities, including DXA, pQCT, CT and MRI to quantify the effects of these interventions on changes in bone, cartilage, marrow adiposity, and muscle. He is also interested in the role of digital technology as a tool to remotely qualify body composition. His work has led to the implementation of evidence‐based, community exercise programs and nutritional products to optimise musculoskeletal health and body composition.
He is Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ANZSSFR), a member of the medical and scientific advisory committee of Healthy Bones Australia, and a Fellow of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).
Professor Roland Bammer
Monash University - Melbourne, Australia
Professor Bammer is currently the Head of the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Monash University.
He received a degree in Electrical Engineering and PhD from the Technical University of Graz in Austria. He holds a habilitation in both Medical Physics and Biomedical Physics from the Medical University of Graz. In addition, he has an MBA focusing on finance and healthcare management.
Prior to coming to Australia, Professor Bammer was, for almost 2 decades, faculty at the Departments of Radiology and (by courtesy Neurology and Neurosciences) at Stanford University, where he also served as co-Director of the Stanford 3D Lab.
Professor Bammer is also the co-founder of RapidAI, one of first vendors with FDA approved AI tools and the world-leading AI provider for advanced imaging of stroke at almost 2,400 hospitals worldwide.
He has authored more than 260 papers (h-index of 88) and is the inventor of numerous patents.
Professor Bammer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Radiology Research, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, and a Senior Fellow of the ISMRM. He is also a Senior (L3) NHMRC Research Fellow.