avid Hansell MD FRCP FRCR FRSM is Professor of Thoracic Imaging at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Consultant Radiologist, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. His primary specialty is diagnostic imaging of the lungs and he has a particular interest in high resolution computed tomography of diffuse lung diseases. Professor Hansell qualified from Westminster Hospital Medical School and after training in general medicine he specialised in radiology and gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1987. Prior to taking up his clinical appointment at Royal Brompton Hospital in 1989 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Image Processing Laboratories, University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Hansell is a member of numerous national and international working groups responsible for drawing up recommendations for the investigation and management of lung diseases, and projects have included a complete revision of the Fleischner Society’s glossary of terms used in thoracic imaging (2008). He is a frequent speaker at international meetings, including the European Society of Thoracic Imaging, the Fleischner Society (USA) and the Society of Thoracic Radiology (USA). He has been President of the Fleischner Society (2012) and the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (2005) and was on the organising committee of the First World Congress of Thoracic Imaging, held in Florence in 2005. He has been the co-organiser of numerous meetings since 1990, including the highly regarded triennial Cambridge Chest Meeting.

Radiology, thoracic imaging, lung infections