ISS OUTREACH 2025- LARVIK, NORWAY

Eva Llopis is chief of Radiology department of Hospital de la Ribera in Valencia and of IMSKE (European Musculoskeletal Institute) in Valencia, Spain.  She is active in various professional organizations including ISS, ESR, ESSR, ESMRMB, SERME, SERAM and Erasmus. Pass president of SERME (Spanish MSK society), pass president ESSR (European Society of Skeletal Radiology), secretary elect of ISS (International Skeletal Society) Research focus is on joint disease, sports medicine and interventional MSK radiology. She has received numerous prices and regularly lectures at international meetings. She has published chapters in MSK books and has more than 50 peer reviewed articles. 

Dr Marcelo Bordalo is a musculoskeletal and interventional radiologist who completed his medical school, radiology residency, and musculoskeletal fellowship training at University of Sao Paulo Medical School, where he served as Director of Radiology at the Orthopedic Institute, Director of Musculoskeletal Radiology at the Institute of Radiology. He also did a musculoskeletal radiology research fellowship at Universite Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, and at Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York, USA. Currently he is Chief of the Radiology Department at Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha, Qatar. He has edited 6 books, including the musculoskeletal volume of the Brazilian College of Radiology series, and has authored 30+ book chapters and 70+ peer-reviewed publications.

Dr Bordalo is a member of several professional organizations, including the Brazilian College of Radiology (CBR), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA,) and International Skeletal Society (ISS) and had served on several committees for these societies. Currently he serves on the ISS Executive Committee and on the Editorial Board of Skeletal Radiology.

Christine Chung, MD, is a Professor of Radiology, clinical translational researcher, and the director of the UC San Diego´s MSK Imaging Research Group. She currently serves as the Interim Chair of the Department of Radiology at UCSD. She has more than 200 peer review manuscripts in scientific journals. She has a long history of NIH and VA grant funding. She has edited three MSK radiology textbooks. Dr. Chung was recognized for her excellence in research and was awarded the President’s Medal of the International Skeletal Society and is in the line of succession to be the 2 nd female president in its 50- year history. She received the prestigious Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research, a distinction bestowed upon MD, PhD or MD PHD candidates within the field of Radiology that rank within the top 10% of all academic faculty.

Dr. Chung has served as the Department Mentorship Director and has successfully mentored undergraduate students, medical students, radiology residents, radiology fellows, post-doctoral candidates, and junior faculty. She has formalized mentorship and career development programs within the department, including staff, trainees and faculty. Dr. Chung is a sought after-educator and has been invited to lecture around the world. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching at national and international meetings. She has served as the program committee Chair for the prestigious Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) of the ISMRM, annual refresher course committee chair for the International Skeletal Society, scientific committee subspecialty chair for the RSNA and categorical course chair for the ARRS. She has been an examiner at the ABR, and has served multiple terms on the OLA committee for the ABR. She has served as the co-mentorship director in the UCSD Department of Radiology and has formalized a program of near-peer and classic mentorship across trainees and faculty.

Dr Rennie is a Clinical Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Lead Foundation Training Programme Director at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and has worked in the UK NHS for about 30 years. He is a member of the International Skeletal Society, the European Skeletal Radiology Society and the British Society of Skeletal Radiology.

His upbringing was peripatetic with physician parents, with time spent in the UK, Abu Dhabi and India developing tolerance and a broad understanding of cultures. His interests were always Musculoskeletal apart from a brief stint of wanting to be a biochemist in Medical School! Much of his basic surgical training was in the North East of England with work in busy district general hospitals and kindly Consultant mentors. This shaped a career in radiology with an early focus in musculoskeletal radiology.

A short stint in the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore preceded a competitive Clinical Musculoskeletal Radiology fellowship in Canada, for a year. This experience converted him from ill thought plans to be an Interventional MSK Radiologist to an interest in the developing field of Axial Spondyloarthropathy and the use of MRI in 2004.

Axial SpA and its early diagnosis remains his work passion, with multiple hands on MRI courses, conducted in many parts of the world. He has contributed as a co-opted expert on the NICE Guidelines for Imaging in ax SpA in the UK and has been invited as part of a UK Parliamentary Subcommittee to discuss the inclusion of SpA in the European 2020 project.  His family and the pursuit of emulating his Guitar Rock-God Slash, are his passions outside of work! 

And of course, the famous Norwegian blue parrot is still pining for the fjords...