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International Invited Speakers

• Professor Stéphanie Nougaret

  • Professor of Radiology 
    Montpellier Cancer Institute
    Director of the PINKCC Lab (Precision Imaging as a New Key in Cancer Care), IRCM
    Montpellier, France

  Professor Stéphanie Nougaret is a leading expert in oncological imaging, specializing in rectal and gynecological cancers. She is a Professor of Radiology at the Montpellier Cancer Institute and Director of the PINKCC Lab (Precision Imaging as a New Key in Cancer Care) at IRCM. Her research focuses on integrating artificial intelligence, radiomics, and advanced imaging techniques to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment response prediction.

  Actively involved in international scientific societies, she is the chair of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology’s Women Imaging Working Group and the founder of GRERCAR, a research group dedicated to rectal cancer imaging. She has authored over 150 scientific articles, with an H-index of 43 and more than 5,000 citations.

  Her leadership in oncological imaging is reinforced by her role in major European and international research initiatives, securing competitive grants such as the European Research Council Starting Grant.

• Professor Maxime Ronot

  • Professor of Radiology, Université Paris-Cité
    Head, Department of Medical Imaging at Beaujon University Hospital
    Clichy, France

  Professor Maxime Ronot, is affiliated with the Université Paris-Cité and is the Head of the Department of Medical Imaging at Beaujon University Hospital in Clichy, France. Specializing in abdominal imaging, he focuses on liver and pancreas diseases and tumors, interventional abdominal oncology, and abdominal vascular diseases.

  He holds memberships in various prominent French and European radiology societies, including the French and European Societies of Radiology and the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR). He is a member of the LI-RADS steering committee. In this capacity, he chairs the LI-RADS benign liver lesions group and contributes to the LI-RADS AI and cholangiocarcinomagroups and the CIRSE AI task force. Prof. Ronot has authored or coauthored over 400 articles and books.

  Furthermore, he serves as the president of the French national ethics committee for medical imaging research.

• Professor Harriet C. Thoeny, MD

  • Professor and Chair of Radiology
    University and Hospital of Fribourg
    Switzerland

  Professor Harriet C. Thoeny is currently serving as Professor and Chair of Radiology at the University and Hospital of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is the Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and an Associate Editor of the journal Radiology.

  Her outstanding contributions to the field have been honored with the prestigious Gold Medal from the European Society of Radiology (ESR). She holds honorary memberships in several esteemed organizations, including the Spanish Society of Abdominal Radiology (SERAM), the French Society of Radiology (SFR), and RSNA. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Society of Abdominal Radiology (ASAR) and a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).

  Professor Thoeny is a Fellow of the International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS), the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR), and the European Society of Head & Neck Radiology (ESHNR). She previously served as President of ESUR, further demonstrating her leadership and dedication to advancing radiological science.

  Her primary research interests focus on functional MRI, particularly in applications related to urogenital and head & neck radiology, as well as cancer imaging and the use of gadolinium-based contrast agents.