Leadership

WFPI Council 2024-2025

President, Olubukola Omidiji Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-araba, Lagos, Nigeria AfSPI	President-Elect, Jennifer Nicholas Cincinnati Children's Hospital Ohio, USA SPR	TBA Vice President, ESPR
Past President, Timothy Cain, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, Australia AOSPR	2nd Past President, Andrés García Bayce Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell Montevideo, Uruguay SLARP	Treasurer, J. Chris Rodrigues Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya AfSPI
Founding President M. Ines Boechat David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA USA	TBA 5th Organizational Director: SLARP	Secretary, Kushaljit Singh Sodhi PGIMER, Chandigarh, INDIA AOSPR
	Vice Secretary: Hansel Otero, MD, FAAP Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	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:	AFSPI Representative: Jaishree Naidoo
AFSPI Representative: Tanyia Pillay	AOSPR Representative: Ashley J. Robinson Sidra Medicine, Ar-Rayyan, Doha, Qata	AOSPR Representative: Maggie TM Zhong
ESPR Representative: Joanna Kasznia-Brown Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton, UK ESPR	ESPR Representative: Jovan Lovrenski, MD, PhD Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia	SLARP Representative: Claudia Lazarte
SLARP Representative: Tamara Kreindel Médica de Planta. Pediatric Radiology. Servicio de Diagnóstico por Imágenes. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires	SPR Representative: Christopher Cassady	SPR Representative: Damien Grattan-Smith Paladin Pediatric Radiology

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 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

A 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

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Chair, Digital Education and Social Media Committee
Webmaster

WFPI Mission
Communication and collaboration between pediatric imaging practitioners, via their organizations
Advocating for appropriate practices and resource allocation for children
Education
Patient safety, in particular radiation safety and protection
Outreach and training in lower resource settings
Research
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