Philippe Douek MD, PhD

Philippe Douek has 20 years of imaging department management experience. He is Chairman of a consortium of 10 Departments of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in Lyon Hospital (HCL), France including 60 physicians and researchers, and 600 paramedical employees; equipment includes 10 CT, 7 MR, 1 PET-CT scanners, with an annual budget of 50 M€. He has strong experience in the coordination of preclinical and clinical projects in imaging research. As a Professor of Radiology, he is a teacher and researcher belonging to CREATIS and has more than 15 years of imaging research, with many multidisciplinary projects in this field, as well as international collaboration (NIH, UCSF). Pr. Douek (H= 35) has given more than 60 international invited lectures and has authored over 140 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 10 book chapters, and two books. He has strong experience in the coordination of preclinical and clinical projects in imaging research involving clinicians, basic science researchers; imaging companies, and pharmaceutical He is in charge of the co-development of the SPCCT technique and hosts the first and only prototype of this type in Europe and is coordinator of the European project H2020 on SPCCT research with Philips Imaging system.