Vancouver Imaging Review: Head to Toe

Lynne Koweek MD FACR, FSCCT is professor of Radiology and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center.  She serves as the medical director of cardiovascular Imaging within the Department of Radiology at Duke Medical Center and the Medical Director of Computed Tomographic Services at Duke Hospital. Her interests focus on the use of computed tomography for assessment of coronary artery disease, structural heart disease, venous and arterial vascular pathology and and pre-procedural planning.  She has collaborated on multiple multicenter trials and expert consensus guidelines having chaired the ACR and SCCT cardiac guidelines committees.

Dr. Iain Kirkpatrick is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Manitoba, where he practices abdominal and cardiovascular radiology and is the Manitoba Section Head of Abdominal Radiology.  He completed his residency training at the University of Manitoba and fellowship training at Stanford University, where he stayed on as adjunct faculty until 2010. Dr. Kirkpatrick is a fellow of the Society of Abdominal Radiology, the Canadian Association of Radiology, and the American College of Radiology and a past recipient of the Canadian Association of Radiology Distinguished Career Achievement Award.  He founded and has chaired the Canadian Association of Radiologists Incidental Findings Working Group for the last 6 years.

Dr. John Lysack is a Clinical Professor of Radiology, Clinical Neurosciences, Surgery, and Oncology at the University of Calgary, where he is also the Director of Head and Neck Imaging and a Vice Chair of the Department of Radiology.

Previously, he was the Neuroradiology Section Chief and the Neuroradiology Fellowship Program Director at the University of Calgary and, prior to moving back to Canada in 2007, he was the Chief Fellow in Neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

In addition to a medical degree, Dr. Lysack has master’s degrees in engineering and law. He has published on a wide range of topics, including the use of machine learning in diagnosing head and neck cancer, and is a consultant to industry and government at the intersection of technology, medicine, and law.

Efrén J. Flores, M.D, FACR., is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and serves as faculty in Thoracic Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He currently serves as Vice-Chair for Mass General Brigham (MGB) Radiology Faculty & Trainee Enrichment. Dr. Flores is health services researcher focused on increasing access to care among historically underserved communities. His work is guided by the overarching goal of improving health outcomes while fostering trust and a sense of belonging among patients and their communities. In recognition of his clinical, research, and community outreach efforts, Dr. Flores has been recognized by numerous awarded grants, invited presentations, and peer-reviewed publications. In recognition for his work, Dr. Flores was selected as one of the inaugural National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence in 2021, as inaugural Co-Chair of the RSNA Health Equity Committee, and he currently serves on several institutional and national committees, including as Associate Editor of Health Equity for the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).