Meet the Team
Senior Team
Dr Catherine Heaven
Dr Catherine Heaven is Associate Director of Education at The Christie School of Oncology, in Manchester. Cathy’s background is in communication research and training.
Cathy has led the development of a Cancer Education Strategy for Greater Manchester and is part of an award winning industry partnership leading PET-CT education nationally.
Dr Prakash Manoharan
PET-CT Academy Director and Consultant Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician
Dr Manoharan is dually accredited in radiology and nuclear medicine, with sub specialised fellowships in nuclear medicine (UK), oncology body MRI/CT (UK) and nuclear medicine/PET CT/ advanced radionuclide therapy (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA).
Dr David Hamilton
Medical Physics and Engineering consultant for PET-CT Academy
Dr Hamilton is specialised in the physics of nuclear medicine and has interests in imaging and dosimetry. Publications have also included work on novel radionuclides in molecular radiotherapy and image analysis using artificial intelligence. Dr Hamilton is a founding member of the PET-CT Academy along with Drs Heaven and Manoharan.
Radiology
Dr Amarjot Chander
Consultant Radiologist / Clinical Supervisor for PET-CT Academy
Dr Chander is dually accredited in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine – and has specialist interest in lung malignancy.
Dr Rohit Kochhar
Consultant Radiologist / Lead Radiologist for PET-CT Academy
Dr Kochhar is a consultant oncoradiologist and a member of the UK National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Colorectal CSG with a specialist interest in peritoneal tumours, anal cancers and Education.
Dr Soo Mak
Consultant OncoRadiologist/ Clinical Supervisor for PET-CT Academy
Dr Mak is a diagnostic oncology radiologist with a specialist interest in post-treatment brain tumour, head and neck cancer and haematological malignancy.
Dr Thomas Westwood
Consultant Radiologist / Clinical Supervisor for PET-CT Academy
Dr Westwood is an Oncology Radiologist with a specialist interest in nuclear medicine and molecular Imaging. His experience includes a range of PET tracers including 18 FDG, 68Ga-DOTANOC, 18F-Choline and 18F-DOPA.
Nuclear Medicine
Jose Calero
Head of Radiopharmacy
José Calero, (BPharm, MSc, GPhC) started his professional career as a Radiopharmacist at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, United Kingdom. Mr Calero has leaded The Christie Radiopharmacy as a Consultant Radiopharmacist and Head of Radiopharmacy. In October 2014, Mr Calero became a member of the UK Radiopharmacy Group of experts.
Andrew Connolly
Deputy Lead Technician in Nuclear / Content Developer for PET-CT Academy
Qualified as a radiographer in 1986, qualified to work in Nuclear Medicine in 1996; have worked in 3 Nuclear Medicine departments and experienced a wide variety of scanning; became involved in PET-CT scanning about 2005 and involved in training in the last couple of years. Can be found treading the boards in amateur dramatics and writing short stories when not involved in Nuclear Medicine.
Wendy Jennison
Lead Clinical Technologist / content Developer for PET-CT Academy
Dr Peter Julyan
Principal Physicist – Christie Hospital / Lead Physicist for PET-CT Academy
In my current role I am responsible for providing medical physics support for clinical and research PET imaging in Christie Hospital, and research PET at the University of Manchester’s Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC). I am also involved with teaching at the Universities of Manchester and Salford, and supervisor students at M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels.
Admin, Events & Marketing Team
Dave Bowler
Events & Marketing Support Manager
Dave joined the PET-CT Academy in April 2021 having previously worked as a Marketing and Communications Officer at MCS & Outdoor Industries Association.
Kevin Dawson
Events and Marketing Coordinator
Kevin joined the PET-CT Academy in August 2021 having previously worked for 7 years as a graphic designer in the Christie medical illustration team.
Previous Facutly Members
Brian Murby
Nuclear Medicine Group Leader – Deputy Director of the PET-CT Academy from 2018 – 2021
Responsible for provision of the scientific leadership and management of the Nuclear Medicine group in CMPE.
Thank you Brian for your contribution to the PET-CT Academy
Nicola Fern
Lead online Module Developer from 2015 – 2020
Nic can be credited for building the PET-CT Academy online education platform and designing a number of the modules.
Thank you Nic for your contribution to the PET-Academy
Jennie Prince
Consultant Clinical Scientist in Nuclear Medicine for the PET-CT Academy from 2015 – 2021
Jennie Prince was a nuclear medicine physicist, who provided scientific support (MPE, RPA, RWA) to nuclear medicine departments in a number of Trusts in Greater Manchester and Lancashire, and led RPA and RWA coordination across NC1 PET sites across England.
Thank you Jennie for your contribution to the PET-Academy
Katie Slaouti
Marketing and events support manager for the PET-CT Academy from 2016 – 2018, returning for 5 months in 2020
Thank you Katie for your contribution to the PET-CT Academy
Mark Squire
Events and Marketing Coordinator for the PET-CT Academy from 2019 – 2021
Thank you Mark for your contribution to the PET-CT Academy