25th Annual PET CT meeting

Professor Michelle Williams is a Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant Radiologist at NHS Lothian. She is Associate Director of the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre and the Imaging theme lead. Her research centres around multi-modality non-invasive imaging of the heart and blood vessels, including using machine learning and other advanced analytic techniques. She is president of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, member of the executive community of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology, and member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 

John O’Brien is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. He is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Emeritus Senior Investigator and an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. From 2014 to 2024 he was the NIHR Clinical Research Network National Lead for Dementia.

His main research interests are in the clinical and research application of imaging biomarkers to different types of dementia. He has been a member several Guideline groups including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the British Association of Psychopharmacology, the European Federation of Neurological Sciences and the European Stroke Association.

Gary Cook trained in radiology and then nuclear medicine in London. In 2011 he returned to King’s College London and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals as a clinical academic and a nuclear medicine physician in the King’s College London and Guy’s & St Thomas’ PET Centre. The department has 2 long axial field of view PET/CT scanners as well as short axial FOV and PET/MRI scanners. His research interests include imaging bone metastases, measuring tumour heterogeneity, evaluation of novel tracers and biomarkers and refining multimodality imaging for diagnosis and response assessment in oncology.