WFPI Council 2023-24
President, Timothy Cain
The Royal Children's Hospital 
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   AOSPR 
Vice President, Olubukola Omidiji

Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-araba,

Lagos, Nigeria  AfSPI

Past President, Andrés García Bayce 
Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell 
Montevideo, Uruguay 
SLARP

 

Founding President 
M. Ines Boechat
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA USA

 

5th Organizational Director: 
Jennifer Nicholas
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Ohio, USA
SPR  

Secretary Rick van Rijn 
Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, Netherlands
ESPR

 

Treasurer, J. Chris Rodrigues 
Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya 
AfSPI

Vice Secretary:
Kushaljit Singh Sodhi
PGIMER, Chandigarh, INDIA
AOSPR

Vice Treasurer 
Ashley J. Robinson
Sidra Medicine, 
Ar-Rayyan, Doha, Qatar
AOSPR

Advisory Continuity Rep:
Dorothy I. Bulas
Children's Nat'l Med Ctr.
Washington, DC USA 
SPR

Rep,  Image Gently Alliance: 
Kimberly Applegate
Univ of Kentucky, USA 
SPR 
AFSPI Representative: 
Jaishree Naidoo  
AFSPI Representative: 
Tanyia Pillay
AOSPR Representative:
Ashley J. Robinson
Sidra Medicine, 
Ar-Rayyan, Doha, Qata
AOSPR Representative:
Kushaljit Singh Sodhi
PGIMER, Chandigarh, INDIA
ESPR Representative:
Joanna Kasznia-Brown
Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton, UK 
ESPR
ESPR Representative:
Jovan Lovrenski
SLARP Representative:
Claudia Lazarte
SLARP Representative:
Tamara Kreindel
SPR Representative
Christopher Cassady
SPR Representative: 
Damien Grattan-Smith 
     

 

WFPI Executive Council 2022-23

(here's their roles)

 

President:

Andrés García Bayce

Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell 
Montevideo, Uruguay 
SLARP

Vice President
 Timothy Cain
The Royal Children's Hospital
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
AOSPR
 

Treasurer: 
Tatiana Fazecas
Hospital Municipal Jesus-RJ. Pediatric Radiologist at DASA-RJ 
Rio de Janeiro, Braizil 
SLARP  

Vice Treasurer: 
J. Chris Rodrigues    Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya 
AfSPI

Past President
Joanna Kasznia-Brown
Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton, UK 
ESPR

Founding President: 
Maria Ines Boechat
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA USA

 Secretary

Rick van Rijn 
Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, Netherlands
ESPR

Vice Secretary:
Kushaljit Singh Sodhi
PGIMER, Chandigarh, INDIA
AOSPR

5th Organizational Director: 
Jennifer Nicholas
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, OH  USA
SPR

Advisory Continuity Rep:
Dorothy I. Bulas
Children's Nat'l Med Ctr.
Washington, DC USA 
SPR

Rep,  Image Gently Alliance: 
Kimberly Applegate
Univ of Kentucky, USA
 
SPR
 

AFSPI Representative: 
Jaishree Naidoo  

 AFSPI Representative: 
J. Chris Rodrigues Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya 

AOSPR Representative:
Ashley J. Robinson
Sidra Medicine, 
Ar-Rayyan, Doha, Qatar
         
 
 
AOSPR Representative:
Kushaljit Singh Sodhi
PGIMER, Chandigarh, INDIA
ESPR Representative:
Rutger Jan Nievelstein 
ESPR Representative: 
Martin Stenzel
SLARP Representative:
Pilar Dies
SLARP Representative: 
Alexandra Monteiro 
 SPR Representative
Taylor Chung 
SPR Representative: 
Christopher Cassady

Initiative Chairs 
 
     

 
 
Digital Education Leader: 
Jennifer Nicholas
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, OH  USA
SPR
 MRI protocol Leader: 
Michael Gee
Mass General Hosp
Harvard, USA 

Outreach: 
Hansel Otero 
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

 

Outreach co-chair: 

Ricardo Faingold
Montreal Children's Hospital

 

Outreach co-chair: 
Ram Senasi
City Hospitals Sunderland

 

 TB Leader: 
Kushaljit Singh Sodhi

PGIMER, Chandigarh, INDIA

Thoracic Committee Chair  
Edward Y. Lee, MD, MPH
Boston Childrens
           
      Neuroradiology Leader: 
Kish Mankad
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
London, UK
     

 
Committees

Bylaws

 

 

 

  • Version I: approved by all Founding Society boards and adopted in June 2012
  • Version 2: approved at WFPI's Annual General Meeting, June 2014
  • Version 3: e-ballot passage, June 2015
  • Version 4: e-ballot passage, July 2020

Digital Education/Social Media

 

Outreach

Leader: Cicero Silva

Overview and steering of WFPI outreach work is currently provided by WFPI's Executive Committee (key Council members).

Project leaders:

  • Childhood TB group: Bernard Laya
  • Ultrasound in lower resource settings: Savvas Andronikou
  • Indira Ghandi Institute of Child Health, Bangalore, India: Cicero Silva
  • Khayelitsha Hospital, Western Cape, South Africa: Savvas Andronikou/Stanford University (Richard Barth)
  • Latin America: network development, tele-reading installation with health facilities in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala: Ramon Sanchez
  • Malawi: teaching and tele-reading support (focus: PoC US), development of future partnership with Imaging the World: Tracy Kilborn, Julie Hurteau, Sabine Béllard
  • Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders: Savvas Andronikou
  • Laos: Cicero Silva/Michael Reiter - RAD AID
  • Bustamante Children's Hospital, Jamaica: Cicero Silva [Pamela Deaver]
  • Ethiopia: Kassa Darge
  • Mozambique: Ines Boechat and Ricardo Faingold
  • Haiti: Dorothy Bulas, Jennifer Nicholas, Rebecca Stein-Wexler


Partnerships


  • Joint Statement was issued by RAD-AID, WHO-PAHO and WFPI in September 2014 for future outreach and education work. Dr. Hansel Otero acts as WFPI's liaison physician for the WFPI-RAD AID interface.
  • Imaging the World and WFPI are moving forward together on PoC ultrasound research and pilot projects - see here.
  • For other organizations involved in lower resource settings and imaging, please click here and here


Research Support

 

Thoracic