Current BSCMR Board

Prof. Saul Myerson is a consultant cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and is the clinical lead for cardiac imaging. He is also an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford, and Lecturer in Medicine at St. Catherines College, Oxford. He specialises in non-invasive cardiac imaging, particularly cardiovascular magnetic resonance, and his clinical and research interests are in valve disease, aortic disease and cardiomyopathies. He qualified from the University of Bristol and completed further training in London and Oxford. He has published widely, has given many national and international lectures and is editor of the Oxford Handbooks of Cardiology Emergencies, Valve Disease and Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He was president of the British Junior Cardiologists Association from 2005-2007.

Dr Keenan is a consultant cardiologist at West Herts NHS Trust as well as an honorary consultant cardiologist at Hammersmith Hospital, and an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College, London. He qualified from Oxford University in 2001 and then trained in cardiology and general medicine in London. He carried out specialised training and research in cardiac MRI at the Royal Brompton Hospital, in cardiac CT at the London Chest Hospital, and in echocardiography both at Hammersmith Hospital in London, and also at Hospital Bichat in Paris. He has also undertaken advanced heart failure training at Harefield Hospital.

Dr Treibel is a clinical academic cardiologist with specialist interest in valvular heart disease, heart failure and multimodality imaging. He is a BHF Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow and Associate Professor in Cardiology at UCL; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Health. He is the clinical lead for CMR at Barts Heart Centre. His main research work focuses on the mechanisms of excess mortality in patients with valvular heart disease despite successful valve replacement. He investigates myocardial fibrosis in heart valve disease using multi-modality imaging including cardiovascular magnetic resonance, cardiac CT and echocardiography. His aim is to improve outcomes for patients with valvular heart disease by developing clinical trials in this field.

Dr Pankaj Garg is an Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and an honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals. After completing his BHF-funded PhD at Leeds (2017), he was awarded the NIHR Clinical Lectureship programme at the University of Sheffield. In 2020, he was awarded the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship. His research focus is cardiovascular haemodynamics and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. His ambition is to discover and advance a better understanding of the interface between cardiovascular flow, pressures and cardiac remodelling. He has received 20 national/international awards and has published >175 peer-reviewed papers.

I am a CMR radiographer with over 20 years’ experience in the field beginning my CMR career at The Royal Brompton Hospital in 1997 . I then moved to the University of Oxford where I was the lead radiographer and head of Imaging applications in OCMR, having a varied research and clinical career. I am passionate about radiographer education as well as promoting best clinical practise.

I have been an invited speaker at many national and international meetings on various cardiac MR techniques and have been a faculty member of SCMR, BSCMR and Euro CMR on many occasions. I have also been invited to teach and mentor radiographers nationally and internationally and in 2018 I was the first radiographer to be awarded the honour of Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR) in recognition of my contributions and achievements in the field.

Marina’s special expertise is Cardiac MRI for adults and children with congenital and inherited heart disease. She has published clinical research and has continually helped to educate junior and senior trainees. After medical school in Perth, Western Australia, Marina completed a PhD in Infectious Diseases and trained in clinical paediatrics in Oxford, UK. She then trained further in paediatric cardiology and took a post as Consultant and Echocardiography Lead at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. After moving back to the UK in 2006, Marina worked as Clinical Lead for Cardiac MRI at Great Ormond St Hospital in London, helping to build a leading service, scanning more than 1000 paediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease per year. In 2019 Marina began work as Clinical Lead for Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Papworth Hospital and since January 2021 she is concentrating on developing congenital and structural cardiac MRI services in East Anglia, both at Norwich and Peterborough. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia.

Dr Sado is a Cardiology Consultant and the clinical and academic leader of the cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging service at King’s College Hospital. As well as general clinical Cardiology, he has particular interests in heart failure, heart imaging and inherited heart diseases. He has won international, national and regional prizes for his research and published over 80 articles in peer reviewed medical literature. His work spans fields including CMR, heart failure, hypertension, inherited heart disease, iron overloading and resuscitation. Dr Sado has a strong involvement in medical education, both as a teacher and a developer of learning events. He is the South London lead for Cardiology Registrar training in imaging. He was the first chair of the British Society of CMR training committee and he organises and leads the London Registrar training days in cardiovascular imaging. He provides heart failure and CMR training to consultants, junior doctors, students and allied health professionals. He has formal medical education qualifications and has won awards for his teaching.

Jonathan is a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist at the Royal Papworth Hospital. His research interests lie in the use of cardiovascular CT and MRI for better understanding how these can be used to improve patient treatment and outcomes in structural and coronary artery disease.  He also sits on the guideline committee of the SCCT, the Certification and Accreditation Committee of the EACVI and Diagnostics Advisory Committee of NICE.

Dr Peter Swoboda is a Consultant Cardiologist and British Heart Foundation funded researcher at the University of Leeds. He leads the clinical CMR service in Mid Yorkshire Hospitals which performs over 1000 scans per year and hosts a full-time cross-sectional imaging fellowship. His CMR research involves using both new and established imaging techniques to understand the mechanisms of cardiac risk in athletes. He also works on multi-centre trials of cardiovascular imaging to use imaging to improve patient experience and outcomes in conditions including heart failure and ischaemic heart disease.