INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Marion Smits
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
​​Marion Smits is full professor and Chief of neuroradiology at Erasmus MC - University Medical Centre Rotterdam (NL). She combines research with clinical work as a neuro- and head & neck radiologist, with a particular focus on neuro-oncology in the Brain Tumour Centre at the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam (NL). Marion also holds an honorary appointment as Professor of Neuroradiology at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Faculty of Applied Sciences, as well as a Medical Delta Professorship with the aim to advance technological innovations in healthcare.
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Marion is dedicated to breaking down the boundaries between the research arena and clinical practice and vice versa, by disseminating knowledge and insight gained from her research and by clinical implementation of physiological MR neuroimaging through her numerous teaching activities and leadership positions.
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In 2021, Marion was named ‘most influential radiology researcher’ by AuntMinnie Europe. Marion is honorary member of the ASNR, fellow of ESMRMB and senior fellow of ISMRM
for her pioneering work at the interface of technical innovation and clinical neuroradiology.
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Dr Amy Juliano
Boston, USA
Amy Juliano is a Head and Neck Radiologist, Director of Research and Academic Affairs, and Fellowship Program Director for the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
Amy completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Neuroradiology Fellowship at Brigham/Boston Children’s Hospital. She received her medical doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a master’s degree in Physics at Harvard University.
She is Senior Editor for the AJNR Head and Neck section, Chair of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria Committee Head and Neck Panel, and Chair of the ACR NI-RADS Committee. She serves as Chair of the ASNR International Collaborations Committee, Chair of the Education Committee and Executive Committee member of the ASHNR, and President of ENRS. She is on the Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology Certification board examination question writing committees for the American Board of Radiology. She is one of the four co-founders and panelists of “T Bone Time”, a webinar series that began in 2020 for sharing and discussion of interesting temporal bone cases.
Dr Linda Gray Leith
Raleigh, USA
​Dr Linda Gray began her career at Duke Medical Center in neuroradiology and has been on faculty at Duke in Neuroradiology for 37 years. Initially her career was occupied with running the residency-training program for a dozen years. In 2002 when CT fluoroscopy came to fruition, she initiated CT fluoroscopic guided pain management and pioneered CT interventions along the spinal axis including central cervical epidurals extending from C1-2 and throughout the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. In 2006, she initiated a program in CT fluoroscopic guided interventions for the treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. She has mentored at least 40 neuroradiologists and 30 institutions throughout the United States, Europe and Australia in the performance of these procedures and has initiated the concept of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure problems as a secondary cause of migraine headaches throughout the headache community. She is now an invited speaker on the subject, giving multiple lectures throughout the year.
Associate Professor
Mathew Amans
San Francisco, USA
Dr. Amans is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to running the Neuroendovascular Surgery training program, he is also the PI of the UCSF Cerebral Venous Disorders Lab that is funded by the National Institute of Health and Department of Defense to better understand the underlying mechanisms of these interesting diseases and to develop novel therapies. He is also the founder and director of the UCSF Pulsatile Tinnitus Clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic that has seen thousands of patients with pulsatile tinnitus and has developed novel diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for this challenging condition.
Dr. Amans also serves the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS) on the Board of Directors, as well as the Chair of the SNIS Cerebral Venous and CSF Disorders Chapter. He is also an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery.
