Course Lecturers

Course Directors

Associate Prof Natalie Voets is the founder and director of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course. She is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (FMRIB-WIN) and an Awake Intraoperative Neurosurgery Technician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her primary interests include neurosurgical planning, especially fMRI and diffusion tractography to maximise quality of life outcomes in patients with drug resistant epilepsy and glioma.

Prof Mark Jenkinson is the co-director of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course. He is a non-clinical scientist and Professor of Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford and the University of Adelaide. Prof Jenkinson’s research involves multimodal modelling of populations to describe disease processes and investigating structural segmentation and analysis of brain anatomy and pathology and their relationship with disease. He has coordinated, lectured and tutored on the WIN MRI graduate program and the international FMRIB Software Library (FSL) course.

Lecturers for Section A: Normal and Pathological Anatomy and Section B: Interpreting Clinical MRI

Dr Pieter Pretorius is a Consultant Neuroradiologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. His clinical role involves diagnostic neuroradiology, specifically the interpretation of MRI and CT scans of the brain, spine, skull base and head and neck in adults and children. Dr Pretorius has a particular interest in neuro-oncological imaging and his research interests lie in the translation of neuroimaging advances to clinical care. 

Dr Fintan Sheerin is a Neuroradiology Consultant and the Neuroradiology Clinical Lead at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. As a diagnostic Neuroradiologist, he specialises in the interpretation of and reporting of MRI, CT and US scans of the brain, spin, skull base, head and neck. He has particular interests in in craniofacial, head and neck oncology, stroke and skull-based imaging. He also performs US and CT guided biopsies and injections of the heck and neck and spine.

Dr Andrea Bernasconi is a Neurologist and Epileptologist who specialises in Neuroimaging of Epilepsy. As Professor of Neurology, he co-directs along with Prof. Neda Bernasconi the Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Lab (NOEL) at the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University, Canada). The overall goal of their research is to demonstrate that advanced MRI techniques lead to major improvements in the management and quality of care of patients with epilepsy who are candidates for surgical treatment

Dr Andreas Bartsch is a Consultant Neuroradiologist. He is affiliated with the University of Heidelberg, Wuerzburg, Germany as well as with the University of Oxford FMRIB-WIN and co-organized and lectured at several FSL and FreeSurfer courses, ISMRM, ESMRMB and OHBM meetings. His particular interest is in using functional MRI and tractography for pre-surgical planning.

Lecturers for Section C: Advanced MRI in the Clinic 

Associate Prof Saad Jbabdi is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. His involves using diffusion weighted imaging to further our understanding of the structural and functional organisation of the brain at a systems level. Prof Jbabdi teaches on the WIN MRI graduate program, as well as undergraduate maths and engineering.

Associate Prof Tom Okell is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford (FMRIB-WIN). His research focusses on the development of MRI methods to visualise blood flow through the brain and the resulting perfusion of brain tissue. Prof Okell is the director of the WIN MRI graduate program and lectures and tutors in the physics module.

Dr Will Clarke is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford (FMRIB-WIN).  He works within both the physiological neuroimaging group and magnetic resonance physics group at WIN. His research focusses on methods development for magnetic resonance spectroscopy, to quantify the chemical kinetics of a large number of metabolites in the human brain.

Lecturers for Section D: Image Guided Intervention 

Prof Susan Bookheimer  is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and the Joaquin Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the UCLA School of Medicine, USA. Her research is focused on developing brain imaging techniques in the fields of Alzheimer’s disease, autism, ADHD, neuro-oncology and epilepsy. Prof Bookheimer was Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in 2012-2013 and received the Glass Brain lifetime achievement award in 2018.

Prof Puneet Plaha is a Consultant Neuro-oncology Surgeon at OUH NHS Foundation Trust, with a specialist interest in brain tumours. Prof Plaha is the Clinical Lead for the Oxford Brain and Spine MDT and Neuro-oncology Lead for Thames Valley. His research focusses on using minimally invasive endoscopic techniques to resect brain tumours and advanced imaging technologies to develop individually-tailored treatment for brain tumours. He is Co-Chief Investigator for FUTURE-GB (FUncTional and Ultrasound guided REsection of GlioBlastoma), a NIHR funded, multicentre, intraoperative, randomised controlled trial assessing the use of ultrasound and diffusion tractography in glioblastoma surgery.

Dr Victoria Young is a Consultant Interventional Neuroradiologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. She has a specialist interest in stroke and vascular disease. Dr Young has been involved in medical teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as teaching on FRCR preparation courses and has a postgraduate certificate in medical education.

Miss Sophie Camp is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She currently works primarily as an adult cranial neurosurgeon, which encompasses neurotrauma and acute neurosurgery at St. Mary’s Hospital, where the Major Trauma Centre is located, and neuro-oncology at Charing Cross Hospital. Sophie has ongoing research interests in both neuro-oncology and neurotrauma, focusing predominantly on intraoperative ultrasound and image analysis. She is Co-Chief Investigator for FUTURE-GB (FUncTional and Ultrasound guided REsection of GlioBlastoma), a NIHR funded, multicentre, intraoperative, randomised controlled trial. She is also Brain (CNS) MDT Joint Chair at Imperial, Clinical Governance Lead for the Directorate of Stroke and Neurosciences, and leads the Imperial Neurosurgery Frailty Group.

Dr Luke Dixon is a Consultant Neuroradiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. His research interests include imaging in vasculopathy and neuro-oncology with particular interests in intraoperative ultrasound guided brain tumour surgery as well as applications of machine learning and computer vision.