Course director
Dr Nishat Bharwani
Dr Nishat Bharwani is a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She qualified with honours from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ Medical School in 2000 and undertook basic medical training in London and Brighton, obtaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. She completed general Radiology training at St George's Hospital (2003-2008) and a fellowship in body MRI at Barts and The London NHS Trust (2008-2010), becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2008. Her radiological interests include gynaecological imaging, oncological imaging and urological imaging and she has published in these areas. Dr Bharwani is heavily involved in teaching as joint Training Programme Director for Radiology trainees at Imperial, lead for the NW London panel writing MCQs for the FRCR 2A examination, and regularly delivers lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally.
Faculty profiles
Prof Wady Gedroyc
Prof Wady Gedroyc is a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Chair in Radiology at Imperial College London, and Medical Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at St Mary’s Hospital. He qualified in medicine in 1978 at St Mary's Hospital, London. He undertook radiology training at Guy’s Hospital, London and was an assistant Professor at Penn State University. He has been a full-time consultant at St Mary's since 1990. He has over 90 papers published in peer reviewed journals, mostly on MR related topics. These include multiple research papers on interventional MRI and the development of MRgFUS in various clinical situations. He is an international expert on MR-guided interventional techniques having treated nearly 500 patients with this procedure.
Dr Narayan Karunanithy
Dr Narayan Karunanithy qualified in 1999 with honours from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School. After completing basic surgical and radiology training, he undertook fellowship training in interventional radiology at Imperial College London and musculoskeletal radiology at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He was appointed consultant interventional radiologist and honorary clinical lecturer at Guy’s and St Thomas’ in 2010. His specialist interests include: venous diseases; urology, renal, transplant and vascular access radiology in adults and children; and magnetic resonance and computerised tomography angiography. Research interests include applications of non contrast and other novel MR angiographic techniques to image renal/peripheral arteries and deep veins.
Dr Miranda Harvie
Miranda has been a consultant for more than 20 years, having trained in NZ before coming to the UK. The majority of her working life has been based in West London working as a general radiologist with subspecialty interests.
For this course she wants each of you to feel comfortable reviewing colorectal MRI cases, and in particular to have an understanding of rectal cancer MRI staging such that each of you can understand the nuts and bolts of a sub-specialist radiologist’s report, sufficient to be able to review such a case with clinical colleagues as needed e.g. in the absence of the reporter. With luck, a few may be suitably excited by this challenging corner of radiology to use this as a springboard to seek more extensive training, but also to understand the role of MRI in problem solving those occasional colorectal conundrums.
Miranda spends much of her spare time in a 10-pole allotment, which her family have much difficulty removing her from at the weekends.
Dr Amish Lakhani
Dr Amish Lakhani is a Consultant Oncological and Genitourinary Radiologist at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is the lead radiologist for the Mount Vernon CyberKnife MDT and a core member of the specialist Uro-oncology MDTs at Imperial.
He completed his medical training at the University of Cambridge and University College London where he graduated with Distinction.
Following completion of his specialist radiology training at Imperial College he was appointed Clinical Fellow in Oncological Imaging at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
He has special interests in whole-body MRI, PET-CT, image-guided radiotherapy planning and multi-parametric prostate MRI.
Dr Lakhani is the radiology training lead at Mount Vernon. He is an invited examiner on several FRCR courses and is Clinical Supervisor for radiology trainees.
He is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He has presented internationally, published in international journals and has been awarded national and international prizes.