Course team

Prof Tarek Yousry (Dr med Habil, FRCR) is a Course Director and module convener for Clinical Module 1 – Foundational Neuroanatomy, Systems & Disease. He led the establishment of this course in 2007/8 and is a renowned international speaker, frequently invited to international conferences and educational courses (ESNR, ECNR, RCR and more). Prof Yousry has also established a very successful and highly regarded international functional anatomy course, taking place annually in April as well as new international neuroradiology courses (ESNR Glioma course).

Professor of Neuroradiology | Head of the Neuroradiological Academic Unit, BRR Department, UCL IoN | Head of the Division of Neuroradiology and Neurophysics, UCL IoN | Head of the Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, NHNN, UCLH | Director of Quality and Safety, Clinical Research Centre, UCLH  | Chair of the ESNR Diagnostic Committee

Dr Sotirios Bisdas is a module convener for Clinical Modules 2 & 3 – Pathology and Diagnostic Neuroimaging I & II. He completed a post-doctoral scholarship in Neuroradiology Research at the Medical University of South Carolina, USA and holds a MSc. degree in “Advanced Oncology” from University of Ulm, Germany. A Fellow of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology, his fields of expertise include advanced CT, advanced and functional MRI, and molecular MR-PET imaging in brain diseases, including neurooncology, dementia and epilepsy as well as in head and neck cancer. He is currently Lead MRI Consultant and Clinical Lead of the flagship program in neurooncology of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Widely published, his memberships include the editorial board of several leading journals in Radiology and Neuroradiology, the Executive Committee of the European Society of Head and Neck Radiology, the Head and Neck committee of the European Society of Neuroradiology and the Research Committee of the European Society of Radiology.

Consultant Neuroradiologist in the Department of Neuroradiology at the National Hospital for Neurology in London | Senior Lecturer in Neuroradiology at UCL | Professor of Radiology at University of Tübingen, Germany

Dr Adam Liston (PhD MPhys PGCE AFHEA) is a module convener for the Library Project, Research Project and Research Integrity and Governance modules. He trained as a secondary science teacher after two years of post-doctoral research in EEG-fMRI. Having continued to hold a strong interest in both education and research he returned to neuroimaging as a Course Director for the MSc in Advanced Neuroimaging (ANI). Now a Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL, he has overseen the graduation of over ten new cohorts of ANI students from around the world and spearheaded the launch of Distance Learning and MRes routes, achievements recognised with a Provost’s Teaching Award in 2016. He was also nominated for both the Teaching Delivery and Active Student Partnership Student Awards and part of the UCL Student Union’s Student Choice Awards 2018.

Senior Teaching Fellow, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology | Course Director MSc in Advanced Neuroimaging

Dr John Thornton (PhD, BSc (hons), CSi, MIPEM) played a key role in the design of this course, and has been a Module Convener for Physical Science Module 1 – Introductory Science and Methods since the course started in 2008. He has been committed to post-graduate teaching at UCL since the mid-nineties in his specialist area of MRI physics and imaging techniques. As Head of the Clinical MRI Physics service in the Neuroradiology Department at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and an active researcher within the UCLQueen Square Institute of Neurology, he is an advocate of education in imaging science focused on real-world clinical applications and research techniques. 

Head of Clinical MRI Physics, Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, NHNN, UCLH | Reader in Clinical Magnetic Resonance Physics, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Dr Stephen Wastling is a Module Convener for Physical Science Module 1 – Introductory Science and Methods, a clinical scientist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and an honorary research associate at UCL specialising in magnetic resonance physics. He has a wide range of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as being an invited speaker at a number of international courses organised by the ESNR, ESMRMB and ISMRM. More locally he teaches MR physics to the neuroradiology specialist trainees at NHNN and is a member of the faculty for the international functional neuroanatomy course hosted here.

Dr David Thomas is a module convener for Physical Science Module 2 – Imaging Modalities. He is Principal Research Associate at the UCL Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre with a primary interest in developing novel MRI methods for use in clinical studies of neurodegenerative disease. He works closely with colleagues in the Institute of Neurology, Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), and Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at UCL, aiming to bring a coordinated approach to the acquisition, processing and clinical interpretation of MR images. His teaching excellence was recognised as part of the UCL Student Union’s Student Choice Awards 2018 where he was nominated for the Exceptional Feedback Award.

Dr Martina Callaghan is a module convener for Physical Science Module 2 – Imaging Modalities. An MRI Physicist, her work primarily centres on the development of novel neuroimaging methods for probing the microstructure and function of the human brain using MRI. As Head of Physics at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging she is responsible for developing and maintaining an imaging suite with three research-dedicated 3T MRI scanners. She has been involved in the MSc in Advanced Neuroimaging as a lecturer since 2013 and more recently as a tutor, course committee member and module convenor.

Head of Physics and Senior Lecturer, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, 12 Queen Square, UCL IoN | Image Acquisition Theme Lead, UCL Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging.

 Prof Louis Lemieux (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Module Convener for Physical Science Module 3 – Advanced Imaging. He is a Professor of Physics Applied to Medicine at the UCL Institute of Neurology whose research focusses primarily on Functional and Structural Imaging in Epilepsy. A long time chair of the UCL Centre for Neuroimaging Techniques and a member of multiple editorial boards (IEEE Trans. Biomed Engineering, Human Brain Mapping, Brain Topography and Epilepsy Research and Treatment) and the Institute of Physics, he operates at the forefront of Neuroimaging developments and is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and educational courses.

Dr Eileanoir Johnson (PhD, Msc, BSc (hons)) is a Module Convener for Physical Science Module 3 – Advanced Imaging. She is based at the Huntington’s Disease Centre at the Institute of Neurology, and her research focuses on understanding the process of neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease. By collaborating with researchers at the Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, she aims to develop longitudinal disease trajectories in neurodegeneration. She has experience in teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate content, and is a postgraduate tutor for the course as well as a module convener.