2027 Named Lecturers

NIBIB New Horizons Lecturer

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Boston, MA, USA

Susie Y. Huang, MD, PhD, is Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she holds the James L. and Elisabeth C. Gamble Endowed Chair, and is Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. She is a physician-scientist and neuroradiologist whose work focuses on developing and translating advanced MRI methods to reveal tissue microstructure and connectivity in the living human brain, beyond what is visible on conventional imaging.

Her research spans diffusion and quantitative MRI, ultra-high-performance gradient imaging, and connectomics, with applications to Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, and other neurologic disorders. She leads the NIH BRAIN Initiative Connectome 2.0 program, which is developing next-generation human MRI technologies using ultra-strong gradients while creating pathways to translate discoveries from specialized research platforms into clinically feasible imaging methods.

Dr. Huang’s work bridges MRI physics and technology development with neuropathology, multimodal validation, and clinical neuroradiology, with the goal of transforming emerging imaging measurements into biologically meaningful and clinically actionable biomarkers. She is Deputy Editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and has held leadership roles within the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, including service on its Board of Trustees. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Lauterbur Lecturer

University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK

Karla Miller is a biomedical engineer interested in using MRI to advance our understanding of the brain in health and disease. Her group has developed acquisition, reconstruction, and analysis methods for measuring brain function, connectivity, and microstructure. Her work aims to leverage MRI as a tool that bridges across scales: in particular, scales of people (from populations to patients) and space (from cells to organs).

Karla is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (previously known as FMRIB). She co-leads the UK Biobank brain imaging study. She was the Program Chair for the ISMRM Annual Meeting in Paris 2018, where she introduced various initiatives to enable members to contribute their own ideas and interests more directly to the meeting. She also wants you to know that the closing party at The Pavillons de Bercy-Musée in Paris may be her most important contribution to our field. It was magical.

Karla is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion because she believes it makes us better as a research community.

Mansfield Lecturer

University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany

Fritz Schick studied medicine and physics at the University of Tübingen in Germany. From 1990 to 1996, he worked at the Institute of Experimental Physics in Tübingen in the research group led by Otto Lutz, focusing on the development of MR sequences for experimental and clinical MRI and MRS examinations.

Since 1996, he has been working at the Department of Radiology (Head: Claus D. Claussen, later Konstantin Nikolaou) at the University of Tübingen. In 2001, he was appointed to a permanent professorship as Head of the Section for Experimental Radiology at the same University. His research interests are in quantitative MRI and MRS and their applications to various organs, particularly musculature, liver, adipose tissue and bone marrow. In close collaboration with the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University of Tübingen (Head: Hans U. Haring, from 2018 Andreas Birkenfeld) and together with other national and international partners, he has conducted numerous studies on populations at high risk of metabolic diseases.