Our Officers

Details of the roles and background of the Officers of The Royal College of Radiologists.

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The Officers of the RCR are:

The President	Leads the College and is its primary spokesperson. The President is elected by the UK Fellows in good standing of both Faculties and serves a three-year term. The Presidency rotates such that every third appointment is a clinical oncologist.
Medical Director, Membership and Business (MDMB)	Leads on cross-Faculty areas, including membership value and engagement, and works closely to support the President. The MDMB can be a Fellow from either Faculty and is appointed following a selection process.
Officers for each Faculty:	The Faculty Officers can only come from their relevant Faculty.
Vice-President	Responsible for leading the Faculty and speaking on its behalf.
Medical Director, Education and Training (MDET)	Responsible for specialty training matters for each Faculty
Medical Director, Professional Practice (MDPP)	Responsible for professional and workforce issues for each Faculty

The roles of the honorary Officers are set out in broad terms in the Regulations.

Officers of the RCR

After completing her radiology training in London, Australia, Sheffield and Nottingham, Dr Halliday was appointed as a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Nottingham University Hospital in 1998. She has a special interest in the imaging of suspected physical abuse and provides expert opinions for cases throughout the UK. She was Chair of the British Society of Paediatric Radiology from 2010-2016 and chaired the working group for the updated guidance for imaging in cases of suspected physical abuse in children.

In September 2017, Dr Halliday was appointed National Clinical Lead for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme for Radiology, and the Radiology GIRFT report was published in July 2020. Dr Halliday took over as Clinical Director for Radiology at Nottingham University Hospitals in January 2021.

Dr Halliday's tenure as RCR President is 2022-2025.

Dr Qaiser Malik is a consultant MSK radiologist and Clinical Director of Radiology at Mid and South Essex NHS Trust and the lead medical appraiser for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital.

Dr Malik graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer for University College London Medical School and the Clinical Lead for the East 2 Imaging Network. Qaiser also served on the RCR’s Scientific Programme Committee for seven years and was previously the RCR Newsletter editor for two years.

Dr Malik has a keen interest in musculoskeletal MRI and ultrasound (US), including US-guided procedures. He also specialises in imaging and treating sports injuries and has been involved in the care of elite athletes.

Dr Malik's tenure as Medical Director, Membership and Business at the RCR is 2023-2026.

Dr Stephen Harden is a consultant in cardiothoracic radiology at University Hospital Southampton, having been appointed in 2005.

He completed undergraduate medical training at the University of Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital in the University of London. He trained in Clinical Radiology in Wessex and undertook further training in Germany and the USA. His consultant clinical practice includes cardiac and thoracic cross-sectional imaging and PET/CT.

Before his current role, Dr Harden was the Medical Director for Education and Training in Clinical Radiology at the RCR from 2019-2022. He chaired the RCR Clinical Radiology Professional Learning and Development sub-committee from 2017-2019 and has been an FRCR part 2A examiner. Previously, he was President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, the first RCR travelling cardiac Professor, BIR Vice President, Head of Wessex School of Radiology and the senior cardiac editor for the British Journal of Radiology.

Read our interview with Dr Harden and find out what attracted him to the specialty and why he wanted to get more involved with the RCR.

Dr Harden's tenure as Vice-President, Clinical Radiology at the RCR is 2023-2026.

Dr Tom Roques trained as a clinical oncologist in London and Vancouver before becoming a consultant in Norwich in 2004. He specialises in head and neck, thyroid, upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary cancers as well as lymphoma radiotherapy. He has particular interests in technical radiotherapy and doctor-patient decision-making.

From 2018 to 2021, he was Medical Director for Professional Practice for Clinical Oncology at the Royal College of Radiologists. He was oncology service director in Norwich from 2010-2016. He has been Chair of the Anglia East head and neck cancer and thyroid cancer multidisciplinary teams since 2005, radiotherapy lead for Norwich and was chair of the Anglia Alliance Radiotherapy Board from 2013-19.

He is one of the four authors of the ‘red book’ (Practical Radiotherapy Planning) and has written many other book chapters, as well as the 2017 RCR guideline on radiotherapy target volume definition and peer review.

Dr Roques's tenure as Vice-President, Clinical Oncology at the RCR is 2022-2025.

Dr Priya Suresh completed her undergraduate training in India, followed by her MRCP in Manchester. Her radiology training was in Manchester and Plymouth, followed by a Fellowship at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.

Her work with RCR started in 2011 when she initiated READ and served as the Programme Director. Dr Suresh has also sat on several RCR committees including the Curriculum Committee, Specialty Training Board and Faculty Board. She has chaired the FRCR 2A MSK SBA and is currently the Lead for the MSK module of RITI and SIG Lead for the iRefer MSK guidelines.

She is the Academy Lead for the Peninsula Radiology Academy, Training Programme Director and Teaching Lead for imaging and Honorary University fellow.

Dr Suresh's tenure as Medical Director, Education and Training, Clinical Radiology at the RCR is 2022-2025.

Dr Louise Hanna is a consultant clinical oncologist at the Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff where she specialises in gynaecological cancer. She completed her medical training at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford before undertaking her clinical oncology training at the Velindre Cancer Centre.

Dr Hanna has been involved with education and training at the RCR since being the trainee representative for Wales. As a consultant, she has been a member of the Clinical Oncology (CO) Specialty Training Board, has served on the CO Curriculum Committee as clinical lead for quality and more recently, worked alongside Dr Karen Tipples as the clinical lead for CO National Recruitment.

Dr Hanna has experience as Associate Dean (Quality) within Health Education and Improvement Wales and as Assistant Medical Director for Education and Training at Velindre University NHS Trust. She was also the lead editor for the textbook Practical Clinical Oncology (Cambridge University Press).

Read our interview with Dr Hanna and find out what attracted her to the specialty and why she wanted to get more involved with the RCR.

Dr Hanna's tenure as Medical Director, Education and Training, Clinical Oncology at the RCR is 2023-2026.

Dr Robin Proctor is a consultant radiologist with a special interest in musculoskeletal radiology who works in the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. He has held several leadership roles there including Deputy Medical Director during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Proctor’s broad background in medicine includes several years as a General Practitioner and he has been a Fellow of the RCR since 2008. Prior to his current role he was a member of the RCR Equivalence Committee and the RCR representative for the national New Hospital Programme, having earlier been a subject matter expert for diagnostic imaging within that programme for NHS England.

He has also been an elected member of the RCR Faculty Board for Clinical Radiology and was secretary of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists. Dr Proctor has written numerous books that aid preparation for the FRCR examination in radiology. He was also involved in setting up the ‘Global Radiology’ project.

Dr Proctor’s tenure as Medical Director, Professional Practice, Clinical Radiology at the RCR is 2024-2027.

Dr Petra Jankowska trained as a clinical oncologist in London before becoming a consultant in Taunton in 2007. She specialises in head and neck, and lung cancers and has a particular interest in peer review of radiotherapy contouring and the development of supportive medical leadership.

From 2019 to 2024, Dr Jankowska was the Radiotherapy Quality and Safety Lead at the RCR. She was Oncology Service Lead at Taunton from 2010-16, Clinical Director of Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care Services from 2016-2018, and Associate Medical Director from 2018-2022, with oncology, haematology, radiology, pathology, pharmacy and therapies services within her remit.

Dr Jankowska is also an active triallist, holding both Chief Investigator and Principal Investigator roles, is a contributing author to several textbooks and led the authorship of the 2nd edition of the RCR's guidance on Radiotherapy Target Volume Definition and Peer Review. She is committed to improving the safety and quality of patient care through the development of authentic, supportive and collaborative medical leadership.

Dr Jankowska's tenure as Medical Director, Professional Practice, Clinical Oncology at the RCR is 2024-2027.

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After completing her radiology training in London, Australia, Sheffield and Nottingham, Dr Halliday was appointed as a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Nottingham University Hospital in 1998. She has a special interest in the imaging of suspected physical abuse and provides expert opinions for cases throughout the UK. She was Chair of the British Society of Paediatric Radiology from 2010-2016 and chaired the working group for the updated guidance for imaging in cases of suspected physical abuse in children.

In September 2017, Dr Halliday was appointed National Clinical Lead for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme for Radiology, and the Radiology GIRFT report was published in July 2020. Dr Halliday took over as Clinical Director for Radiology at Nottingham University Hospitals in January 2021.

Dr Halliday's tenure as RCR President is 2022-2025.
Dr Qaiser Malik is a consultant MSK radiologist and Clinical Director of Radiology at Mid and South Essex NHS Trust and the lead medical appraiser for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital.

Dr Malik graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer for University College London Medical School and the Clinical Lead for the East 2 Imaging Network. Qaiser also served on the RCR’s Scientific Programme Committee for seven years and was previously the RCR Newsletter editor for two years.

Dr Malik has a keen interest in musculoskeletal MRI and ultrasound (US), including US-guided procedures. He also specialises in imaging and treating sports injuries and has been involved in the care of elite athletes.

Dr Malik's tenure as Medical Director, Membership and Business at the RCR is 2023-2026.
Dr Stephen Harden is a consultant in cardiothoracic radiology at University Hospital Southampton, having been appointed in 2005.

He completed undergraduate medical training at the University of Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital in the University of London. He trained in Clinical Radiology in Wessex and undertook further training in Germany and the USA. His consultant clinical practice includes cardiac and thoracic cross-sectional imaging and PET/CT.

Before his current role, Dr Harden was the Medical Director for Education and Training in Clinical Radiology at the RCR from 2019-2022. He chaired the RCR Clinical Radiology Professional Learning and Development sub-committee from 2017-2019 and has been an FRCR part 2A examiner. Previously, he was President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, the first RCR travelling cardiac Professor, BIR Vice President, Head of Wessex School of Radiology and the senior cardiac editor for the British Journal of Radiology.

Read our interview with Dr Harden and find out what attracted him to the specialty and why he wanted to get more involved with the RCR.

Dr Harden's tenure as Vice-President, Clinical Radiology at the RCR is 2023-2026.
Dr Tom Roques trained as a clinical oncologist in London and Vancouver before becoming a consultant in Norwich in 2004. He specialises in head and neck, thyroid, upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary cancers as well as lymphoma radiotherapy. He has particular interests in technical radiotherapy and doctor-patient decision-making.

From 2018 to 2021, he was Medical Director for Professional Practice for Clinical Oncology at the Royal College of Radiologists. He was oncology service director in Norwich from 2010-2016. He has been Chair of the Anglia East head and neck cancer and thyroid cancer multidisciplinary teams since 2005, radiotherapy lead for Norwich and was chair of the Anglia Alliance Radiotherapy Board from 2013-19.

He is one of the four authors of the ‘red book’ (Practical Radiotherapy Planning) and has written many other book chapters, as well as the 2017 RCR guideline on radiotherapy target volume definition and peer review.

Dr Roques's tenure as Vice-President, Clinical Oncology at the RCR is 2022-2025.
Dr Priya Suresh completed her undergraduate training in India, followed by her MRCP in Manchester. Her radiology training was in Manchester and Plymouth, followed by a Fellowship at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.

Her work with RCR started in 2011 when she initiated READ and served as the Programme Director. Dr Suresh has also sat on several RCR committees including the Curriculum Committee, Specialty Training Board and Faculty Board. She has chaired the FRCR 2A MSK SBA and is currently the Lead for the MSK module of RITI and SIG Lead for the iRefer MSK guidelines.

She is the Academy Lead for the Peninsula Radiology Academy, Training Programme Director and Teaching Lead for imaging and Honorary University fellow.

Dr Suresh's tenure as Medical Director, Education and Training, Clinical Radiology at the RCR is 2022-2025.
Dr Louise Hanna is a consultant clinical oncologist at the Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff where she specialises in gynaecological cancer. She completed her medical training at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford before undertaking her clinical oncology training at the Velindre Cancer Centre.

Dr Hanna has been involved with education and training at the RCR since being the trainee representative for Wales. As a consultant, she has been a member of the Clinical Oncology (CO) Specialty Training Board, has served on the CO Curriculum Committee as clinical lead for quality and more recently, worked alongside Dr Karen Tipples as the clinical lead for CO National Recruitment.

Dr Hanna has experience as Associate Dean (Quality) within Health Education and Improvement Wales and as Assistant Medical Director for Education and Training at Velindre University NHS Trust. She was also the lead editor for the textbook Practical Clinical Oncology (Cambridge University Press).

Read our interview with Dr Hanna and find out what attracted her to the specialty and why she wanted to get more involved with the RCR.

Dr Hanna's tenure as Medical Director, Education and Training, Clinical Oncology at the RCR is 2023-2026.
Dr Robin Proctor is a consultant radiologist with a special interest in musculoskeletal radiology who works in the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. He has held several leadership roles there including Deputy Medical Director during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Proctor’s broad background in medicine includes several years as a General Practitioner and he has been a Fellow of the RCR since 2008. Prior to his current role he was a member of the RCR Equivalence Committee and the RCR representative for the national New Hospital Programme, having earlier been a subject matter expert for diagnostic imaging within that programme for NHS England.

He has also been an elected member of the RCR Faculty Board for Clinical Radiology and was secretary of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists. Dr Proctor has written numerous books that aid preparation for the FRCR examination in radiology. He was also involved in setting up the ‘Global Radiology’ project.

Dr Proctor’s tenure as Medical Director, Professional Practice, Clinical Radiology at the RCR is 2024-2027.
Dr Petra Jankowska trained as a clinical oncologist in London before becoming a consultant in Taunton in 2007. She specialises in head and neck, and lung cancers and has a particular interest in peer review of radiotherapy contouring and the development of supportive medical leadership.

From 2019 to 2024, Dr Jankowska was the Radiotherapy Quality and Safety Lead at the RCR. She was Oncology Service Lead at Taunton from 2010-16, Clinical Director of Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care Services from 2016-2018, and Associate Medical Director from 2018-2022, with oncology, haematology, radiology, pathology, pharmacy and therapies services within her remit.

Dr Jankowska is also an active triallist, holding both Chief Investigator and Principal Investigator roles, is a contributing author to several textbooks and led the authorship of the 2nd edition of the RCR's guidance on Radiotherapy Target Volume Definition and Peer Review. She is committed to improving the safety and quality of patient care through the development of authentic, supportive and collaborative medical leadership.

Dr Jankowska's tenure as Medical Director, Professional Practice, Clinical Oncology at the RCR is 2024-2027.

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Our Officers

Officers of the RCR

Dr Katharine Halliday

Dr Qaiser Malik

Dr Stephen Harden

Dr Tom Roques

Dr Priya Suresh

Dr Louise Hanna

Dr Robin Proctor

Dr Petra Jankowska