Cormac McGrath, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Cormac did his Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics at Queen’s University Belfast and continued with post-doctoral work there and then at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Switching tack in 2003, he re-trained in Medical Physics and is now a Consultant Clinical Scientist and the head of the Non-Ionising Radiation Group for the Northern Ireland Regional Medical Physics Service where he also leads the MRI team. He is a Magnetic Resonance Safety Expert for five NHS trusts in NI. He is a previous chair of the UK Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine Magnetic Resonance Special Interest Group, and is currently a very active corresponding member. He formed and chaired the IPEM working party that produced a freely available set of MRI Safety Notices (available in a number of languages), and is a member of the UK MRI site planning and MRSE accreditation working parties. He sits on the IPEM MR Safety Expert Accreditation Panel. He was a founding member of the American Board of MR Safety (ABMRS) and currently sits on the Board of Directors as an international member. His current interests are quantitative MRI, MR safety, MR quality assurance, MRI suite design, MRI and radiotherapy planning, 3D printing and Virtual Reality in medicine.

Jennifer Macfarlane, NHS Tayside

Dr Jennifer Macfarlane is part of the MRI Physics team at NHS Tayside. Her interests lie in MR Safety, breast MRI and neuroimaging. She is part of the interdisciplinary team that introduced and runs the UK's second MR guided Focused Ultrasound service for Thalamotomy in Dundee, for all of Scotland.

She is a previous member and Secretary of the IPEM MR-SIG. Jennifer is the Director of SINAPSE (Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence), a vibrant, diverse and collaborative network of imaging scientists throughout Scotland (www.sinapse.ac.uk).