Professor Perry Pickhardt to deliver memorial lecture

Professor Perry Pickhardt.

Professor Perry Pickhardt will be delivering the BIR/Canon Memorial Lecture at UKRCO on Monday, July 2.  His lecture will be titled ‘The natural history of colorectal neoplasia’.

Professor Pickhardt has a worldwide reputation as a clinician, academic and educator in GI imaging.  He is currently chief of gastrointestinal imaging at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and the medical director of cancer imaging at the centre.  Originally graduating in physics, he had a career in the US Navy as a radiologist, including a period at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Canon Medical Systems sponsors this award and managing director Mark Hitchman said: ““Canon Medical Systems is delighted to support the BIR and this award and we look forward to learning from Professor Pickhardt, who is one of the top experts in his field.””

See the full report on page 29 of the May 2018 issue of RAD Magazine.