Our Team

Jamshed Bomanji, Clinical Department Head

Professor Jamshed Bomanji is widely respected throughout the UK NHS as an excellent Nuclear Medicine consultant, researcher, educator and mentor and he serves on several national and international advisory expert groups and committees. Professor Bomanji is Head of Clinical Service at INM. He is also Clinical Lead for Neuroendocrine tumour imaging at UCLH and coordinates numerous multidisciplinary meetings and chairs the UCLH Radiation Protection advisory service. He is employed full-time by the UCLHNHS Foundation Trust and holds an Honorary position as Professor of Nuclear Medicine with UCL.

Ashley Groves, Academic Department Head

Professor Groves I dual accredited in both Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, with extensive exposure to PET Imaging and pioneer of PET/MRI dual modality Imaging. Holder of the Established Chair of Nuclear Medicine at University College London. Performing research aimed at exploiting PET and other molecular imaging technologies in order to investigate the biology of disease in humans. Leading the development of an Experimental Medicine Molecular Imaging programme on the UCL campus.

Brian Hutton, UCL Deputy Department Head

Professor Hutton is considered an expert on most aspects of medical physics applied in nuclear medicine and has acted as an invited speaker at many international meetings. He has pioneered a scheme for distance assisted training (DAT) of Nuclear Medicine Technologists under IAEA funding which has been adopted in many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with interest also in Eastern Europe. This work is based on developing experiential learning based on understanding of basic concepts. He currently directs research in nuclear medicine physics which includes development of reconstruction algorithms, design and evaluation of novel tomographic systems and corrections for effects of motion and partial volume effects.

Kris Thielemans, Academic Physics Head

After a postdoc in String Theory at Imperial College Professor Thielemans moved in 1997 to the Cyclotron Unit of the MRC in Hammersmith, London, then one of the world-leading centres in Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
In 2001, the MRC unit was privatised, becoming Hammersmith Imanet Ltd. This gave him the opportunity to work closely with GE from 2005. He was part of the team researching solutions for PET/CT, leading to contributions in current GE products for scatter correction, image reconstruction and motion correction.
In 2011 Kris moved back to academia, first at KCL and now at UCL, where he leads a sub-group of medical physics group at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine. His work concentrates on scientific computing and improved quantification in medical imaging.

John Dickson, Clinical Physics Head

John Dickson is Head of Clinical Nuclear Medicine Physics at UCLH and is honorary associate professor with UCL. Having almost 25 years’ experience in nuclear medicine, John has been involved at the outset with developing technology and applications in PET/CT, SPECT/CT and PET/MR. He has also been heavily involved with the introduction of new radiopharmaceuticals and new molecular radiotherapies into a clinical setting.

John’s current research interests are in quantifying physiological processes using clinical nuclear medicine imaging, particularly in the brain. He also is an avid educator both at UCL and internationally. John has published over 70 peer reviewed articles, 4 book chapters and is editor of one book. He also sits on numerous national and international nuclear medicine committees.

Francesco Fraioli, Associate Professor

Dr Fraioli’s main clinical interest is in thoracic imaging including lung cancer and Interstitial lung disease. As a combined radiologist and nuclear medicine physician he has developed a unique expertise in combined hybrid imaging of MRI/PET and CT/PET in the lung, including several new imaging biomarkers such as perfusion CT, perfusion MR, functional MR and dynamic PET studies with standard and experimental tracers.

The main research interest of Dr. Fraioli is the application of in vivo imaging to track and monitor several pathological lung disorders. At UCL and UCLH he is leading lung imaging research with several ongoing personal studies and multiple collaborations within the campus and with industries.

Rayjanah Allie, General Manager

Robert Shortman, Research Manager

Rob qualified as a children’s nurse in Bristol in 1997, working in general paediatrics, and Bone Marrow Transplant, before going on to study Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol. Subsequently Rob worked as an assistant psychologist. Following a years’ spell in health psychology research at the University of Bristol Rob returned to nursing at UCLH as part of the Institute of Nuclear Medicine where he has used his experience to assess patient experience in Nuclear Medicine and to develop interventions to reduce the psychological burden of PET/CT & PET/MRI scanning procedures.

Rob is currently undertaking a PhD within the division of Medicine at UCL to determine the relationship between pre-operative memory function and PET/CT & MRI data.

Sarah McQuaid, Deputy Clinical Physics Head

Irfan Kayani, Consultant Radiologist

Deena Neriman, Consultant Radiologist

Following Dr Neriman’s radiology training she specialised in radio nuclear imaging, completing a fellowship in PET CT/PET MRI. She has an interest in Nuclear Cardiology and cardiac /lung imaging and is currently researching the applications of hypoxia and other tracers in lung cancer. She is also active in undergraduate and post graduate teaching.

Liz Prvulovich, Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician

Liz trained in Manchester and then London before being appointed Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician in INM. Her clinical interests are cardiac nuclear medicine and bone densitometry. She is Local Postgraduate Medical Education Lead for the INM and current Director Postgraduate Medical Education for UCLH.

Leon Menezes, Consultant Radiologist

Leon is Lead in Nuclear Cardiology at the Bart's Heart Centre, and Consultant Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician at University College London Hospitals. He read Physiology and Medicine at Oxford, trained in Clinical Radiology at Guy's & St. Thomas', and in Nuclear Medicine at University College London Hospital. He was previously a European Society of Radiology Fellow in Cardiac Imaging at La Sapienza, Rome. He is current President of the British Nuclear Cardiology Society.
His clinical interests are in multi-modality and hybrid cardiac imaging, using SPECT and PET, with Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI. His research interests involve the application of these hybrid modalities to both rare and common cardiovascular diseases, such as sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, atherosclerosis and infection, with funding from the Royal College of Radiologists and the British Heart Foundation.

Simon Wan, Consultant Radiologist

John Hoath, Research Team Leader (Operational and Technical)

John is a technically focused leader within the clinical research team, he is a qualified CT radiographer and works on enabling complex projects to happen within INM. John has developed much of the research IT infrastructure at INM. His own research is in collaboration with AI start-up Cosmonio. This research is developing deep learning algorithms to segment, classify and diagnose from PET, CT and MRI hybrid imaging.

John has previously worked at City, University of London as a Lecturer and still teaches Medical Imaging Engineering and Radiography. He also set up the UK’s first long term undergraduate nuclear medicine placement for radiography students as a collaboration between INM and City, UOL.

Darren Walls, Superintendent Radiographer

Darren Walls is a qualified diagnostic radiographer with significant clinical experience in cross sectional imaging (CT, MRI, PET/CT & PET/MRI) and interventional radiology. Darren is a fellow of the higher education academy and am a visiting lecturer for postgraduate MRI radiography students, he is also a committee member for the Magnetic Resonance Advisory Group (MRAG) at the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR). Darren’s clinical and research interests are pelvic imaging in oncology patients, colorectal cancer and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR).

Stefan Voo, Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician

Jessica Williams, Operational Superintendent Radiographer