We are thrilled to introduce this year’s outstanding lineup of plenary speakers. These experts are leaders in the field of radiology, and bring groundbreaking insights, innovative research, and deep clinical experience to the forefront. Conference delegates will explore a diverse range of topics—from tackling work-work imbalance and burnout with practical strategies, to learning how Canadian radiologists are making a global impact through initiatives like Mercy Ships. Sessions will also highlight the importance of equity and community in advancing the profession, provide a multidisciplinary review of the recent practice guidance for contrast media hypersensitivity, and challenge participants with interactive unknown genitourinary case discussions.
Dr. Frank Lexa
Work-work Imbalance and Burnout: Wicked Problems and Difficult Solutions
Friday April 17 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA, FACR is an academic neuroradiologist from Pennsylvania.
He began his career with a visiting position at the Université de Bordeaux and has been a Professor of Radiology with additional leadership roles at several medical schools including the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Arizona. He has been honored with several major scientific research awards including the Cornelius G. Dyke Memorial award of the American Society of Neuroradiology. He also works outside of academic medicine and was a member of the adjunct faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the marketing department for 17 years where he taught both graduate and executive MBA students in the Global Consulting Practicum, working on five continents.
For several years he also held an appointment as a Professor of Business Development in the Life Sciences at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, at the time the top business school in Europe. There he twice won the prestigious “Prize of Excellence” for outstanding teaching. He served as an ASNR International Outreach professor in Lviv, Ukraine in 2017 and Tanzania in 2023.
Dr. Lexa lectures, consults, and writes on issues at the interface of health care and business. He has authored over 175 peer reviewed papers. He has given over 2,000 academic, invited, and Grand Rounds lectures. His book “Leadership Lessons for Success in Health Care” takes a systematic approach to becoming a medical leader.
He has led and served on key national committees and task forces for major organizations in US radiology. For over a decade he was the CMO of the Radiology Leadership Institute of the ACR and in 2022-2023 he was the Vice President of the ACR and in that role also served on the Board of the CAR.
Dr. Greg Raymond
Imaging from Africa: A Canadian radiology group’s experience providing support to Mercy Ships
Friday April 17: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Dr. Greg Raymond is a Clinical Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, and a Partner with Medical Imaging Consultants (MIC), in Edmonton Alberta. MIC is a group of 120 partner and associate radiologists providing radiology services for multiple hospitals and 15 clinics in the greater Edmonton area, and the group is responsible for the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Resident and Fellow training programs and medical student teaching at the University of Alberta. In 2007 Dr. Raymond began providing teleradiology reporting support for the Africa Mercy hospital ship serving in West Africa, and began recruiting other MIC radiologists to help out. In 2014 the partnership of MIC voted to take on the reporting of Mercy Ships cases (pro bono) and all imaging coming from the ships are integrated into the MIC RIS/PACS. At present, there are 2 large hospital ships in Africa, and on a daily basis MIC is reporting many fascinating and challenging cases, often with pathology that would be rarely or never seen in Canada.
Dr. Raymond is a native of Nova Scotia, receiving his M.D. and radiology residency training at Dalhousie University and a Thoracic Imaging fellowship from the University of Alberta. He served as a physician in the Canadian Armed Forces for 20 years with additional training as a flight surgeon, diving medical officer, Base surgeon, and search and rescue physician, and additionally was Chief of Radiology for the CAF from 2001-2005. He was awarded the Young Researcher Award from the CAR in 2002, has been a Visiting Professor of Research for the Royal College, and has been the recipient of numerous resident teaching awards at the University of Alberta over the past 28 years.
Dr. Geraldine McGinty
RadEqual: Leveraging the Power of our Community to Advance our Profession
Saturday April 18: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Dr. Geraldine McGinty did her medical training in Ireland at the University of Galway and then came to the USA for residency at the University of Pittsburgh where she was Chief Resident. Her fellowship was in Women’s Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2000, she completed an MBA at Columbia University. She is an internationally recognized expert in imaging economics. In May 2018 she was elected as the Chair of the ACR’s Board of Chancellors, the first woman to hold this office. In 2014 she joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and in 2021 she was appointed as Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. Since 2017 she has taught in the combined Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell SC Johnson School of Business EMBAMS in Healthcare Leadership.
She is a member of the board of 4D Medical (4DX) as well of her alma mater. From 2014-2021 she served as a Non-Executive Director of IDA Ireland, the national foreign direct investment agency.
Her published work has focused on payment models for imaging, most recently a bundled payment for breast cancer screening. Recently she has focused on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Medical Imaging. She has spoken at the Turing Institute and to the WHO Focus Group on AI in Healthcare on this topic and was an invited speaker at the Nvidia GTC AI Conference in 2020. In 2015 she was voted Radiology’s Most Effective Educator by the readers of Aunt Minnie, a radiology news site with more than 140,000 members. She holds inclusion as a foundational value and has been recognized for her work in advancing the careers of women including with the Jessica M and Natan Bibliowicz Award for Excellence in Mentoring Women Faculty. In 2019 she endowed a scholarship at her alma mater to support a female physician in pursuing an MBA.
Dr. Adam Byrne
Contrast Reactions in 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Review of the 2025 CAR Update
Saturday April 18: 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Dr. Adam Byrne is originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he graduated from Memorial University with a M.Sc. in Biochemistry. He worked on several research projects afterwards, including the metabolism of adipose tissue at Memorial University before moving to novel detection of HPV infection at Newfoundland Public Health Labs. He returned to medical school at Memorial University before completing his Pediatrics residency at the University of Ottawa. He completed a fellowship in Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Allergy at McGill University before returning to Ottawa, where he now practices Allergy and Immunology in private practice in the community, as well as at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, where he was the recipient of the award for clinical excellence in his first year of practice and is one of the clinical leads for the Pediatric Severe Asthma clinic. Dr. Byrne has presented national and international on a variety of topics, including severe asthma, food allergy, allergic rhinitis, idiopathic anaphylaxis, and the use of AI in healthcare settings.
He is an active member of the CSACI, including co-chair of the National Residency Education Program, a member of the Committee for Professional Development, as well as a member of the Scientific Planning Committee. Dr. Byrne is a co-chair of the joint CSACI/CAR Guidance on Contrast Hypersensitivity Reactions.
Dr. Andreu Costa
Contrast Reactions in 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Review of the 2025 CAR Update
Saturday April 18: 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Dr. Andreu Costa is an academic abdominal radiologist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax and Professor at Dalhousie University. Dr. Costa was Section Head of the QEII Abdominal Imaging division from 2015-2022, Central Zone US Modality Lead from 2014-2019, and the current body US/CT call lead at the QEII. Dr. Costa specializes in hepatopancreaticobiliary and oncologic imaging. His research interests include diagnostic test performance, quality improvement, and clinical practice guidelines.
Dr. Costa has published over 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and his studies have led to improved imaging protocols, patient pathways and regional policies in Nova Scotia. These include imaging of appendicitis, ectopic pregnancy, CT colonography, US-guided prostate biopsy, and work-up of suspected pancreatic cancer.
In collaboration with the department of Urology, Dr. Costa helped develop an MR-US machine fusion prostate biopsy program in Nova Scotia. On behalf of the Canadian Association of Radiology, Dr. Costa has co-authored national clinical practice guidelines on nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, gadolinium retention, contrast-associated acute kidney injury, peer learning and hypersensitivity reactions to contrast media. Dr. Costa is an executive member of the Canadian Society of Abdominal Radiology, member of the CARJ editorial board, and member of the Evidence-Based Working Group for the American College of Radiology Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System.
Dr. Magali Pham
Contrast Reactions in 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Review of the 2025 CAR Update
Saturday April 18: 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Dr. Pham has worked at the Montreal Heart Institute since 2015, after completing a fellowship in Thoracic Imaging and Intervention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Quality, Patient Safety and Risk from Queen’s University. Her final MSc project was a review and analysis of premedication protocols for contrast reaction, which she and her team also presented as a poster at the CAR AM 2021.
Facilitator: Dr. Iain Kirkpatrick
Contrast Reactions in 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Review of the 2025 CAR Update
Saturday April 18: 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Dr. Iain Kirkpatrick is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Manitoba, where he is the Section Head of Abdominal Imaging. Dr. Kirkpatrick completed his residency at the University of Manitoba, followed by a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at Stanford University. Dr. Kirkpatrick also practices cardiovascular radiology and is the Director of CT, Radiography and Interventional Radiology at St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg. He is the Chair of the CAR Incidental Findings Committee, serves on several other CAR committees including the ASM Planning Committee, and has been awarded the status of Fellow by the CAR, ACR, and SAR. In 2023, Dr. Kirkpatrick was awarded the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the CAR.
Dr. Meghan Lubner
Unknown GU Case Seminar
Sunday April 19: 9:00AM – 10:00 AM
Dr. Meghan Lubner is a professor of radiology in the Abdominal Imaging and Intervention section at the University of Wisconsin. She is currently serving as the Modality Director of Clinical Computed Tomography, co-director of the CT research program, and associate section chief of abdominal imaging and intervention. She is also a member of the faculty for the ACR Institute of Radiologic Pathology (AIRP) and serves as associate section chief of the Genitourinary and Gastrointestinal sections. She has an active diagnostic and interventional radiology clinical practice and her clinical and research interests include oncologic imaging, advanced CT applications, quantitative CT imaging biomarkers, and image guided interventions.
She is also an active, federally funded clinical researcher and has published over 200 manuscripts and given numerous invited national and international presentations. She is a member of several national radiologic societies including Radiologic Society of North America, American Roentgen Ray Society, European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology and she is a fellow of the Society of Abdominal Radiology and American College of Radiology. She and her husband Dr. Sam Lubner, a GI oncologist at UW, live in Madison with 3 children and a rescue dog.