José Ignacio Bilbao Jaureguízar graduated from medical school in 1979 and was awarded his doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Navarra in 1988. Dr. Jaureguízar currently works as a Radiodiagnosis Specialist at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra. He is a clinical consultant in the Radiology Department, and a Vascular and Interventional Radiology Unit Coordinator at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra. He is also the Deputy Director of the Vascular Medicine Area at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra and a associate professor at the University of Navarra. Moreover he is the Head of a greater specialisation course at the University: Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Dr. Jaureguízar has led and participated in several research projects about the multidisciplinary treatment of osteosarcoma, percutaneous porto-caval shunt, hepatic volumetrics and the embolization particle Hepasphere.

He is the Co-author of 37 books and author of over 160 articles in national and international magazines.

Riad Salem, MD MBA is a Vice-Chair, Image-Guided Therapy and Chief, Interventional Radiology and Oncology in the Department of Radiology at Northwestern University, Chicago.

Dr. Salem is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He completed his radiology residency in Washington, DC and his fellowship in interventional radiology at the University of Pennsylvania from where he as well obtained his Master’s in Business Administration.

Dr. Salem is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and a Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology. He has lectured internationally and published extensively on the subject of image-guided interventions and interventional oncology. Recently, he completed his term on the NCCN guidelines panel for hepatocellular carcinoma (2007-2010). His current research focuses on hepatocellular carcinoma and includes advances in minimally invasive therapies as well as imaging methodologies following locoregional treatment. He serves as co-PI of 2 international, randomised phase III trials involving locoregional therapy (radioembolisation) and sorafenib (STOP-HCC, YES-p).

Dr. Salem’s areas of interest include the use of image-guided techniques for the treatment of malignancies. These include chemoembolization, bland embolization, radioembolization, and radiofrequency and cryo/alcohol ablation.

Alban Denys is professor of Radiology and head of the interventional radiology unit at the CHUV University of Lausanne. His clinical and research activity (188 peer reviewed articles) is focused on interventional oncology and particularly in the development of new strategies for liver cancer. Dr. Denys graduated from the Paris V University he obtained his residency in Paris and Montreal University as a research fellow, where after he became fellow and staff at the Beaujon University Hospital in Paris.

Dr. Denys moved to Lausanne University where he was appointed assistant then full professor in charge of IO. He is also EBIR and fellow of the CIRSE. He serves as board member of the WCIO and is the future program head of ECIO.

Jean-Francois H. Geschwind, MD is the Chairman of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine, Radiologist in Chief at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and also a Professor of Radiology and Oncology at Yale University School of Medicine. Originally from Paris, France, Dr. Geschwind received his medical degree in 1991 from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California San Francisco and Fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology in 1998 at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he remained on faculty and as the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology since 2002.