Prof. Steven D. Colquhoun is Liver Transplant Surgeon, specialized in robotic surgery. He completed fellowship training in both transplantation and surgical oncology at UCLA. He is board certified in both surgery and critical care, and has been more recently appointed Floyd C. Harrell, Jr MD Distinguished Chair, Surgery, Professor at Medical College of Georgia.

Dr. Colquhoun is involved in clinical and translational research aimed at improving both the diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma as well as other primary and metastatic liver tumors such as colorectal cancer and neuroendocrine tumors.

Prof. Thierry de Baere is Head of the Therapeutic Imaging Department (interventional radiology) at Gustave Roussy Cancer Center.

Prof. de Baère devotes his work to minimally invasive therapies in the treatment of kidney, lung, and liver cancers. He focuses mainly on intra-arterial therapies for primary and secondary liver tumors and percutaneous liver tumor ablation with radiofrequency and cryoablation.

Prof. Nishita Kothary is a Professor of Radiology in the section of Interventional Radiology at Stanford University Medical Center.

Dr. Kothary’s clinical practice primarily focuses on percutaneous and endovascular therapies for primary and metastatic liver cancer. Her research interests lie in radiogenomics and in the use of advanced imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Prof. David C. Madoff is Section Chief, Interventional Radiology at Yale New Haven Hospital and Vice Chairman for Clinical Research Department of Radiology and biomedical imaging at Yale School of medicine.

Previously, he was Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs and Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. From January 2011 to November 2015, David C. Madoff served as Chief of the Division of Interventional Radiology.

He is an internationally–recognized expert in Interventional Oncology.

Dr. David C. Madoff is a leader in academic Interventional Radiology and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings. He authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, has written more than 30 book chapters and served as co-editor of three textbooks including the highly regarded textbook entitled Venous Embolization of the Liver: Radiologic and Surgical Practice and the newly released textbook entitled Clinical Interventional Oncology.  David C. Madoff currently serves as Deputy Editor for RADIOLOGY, the flagship scientific journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology from 2007 to 2010.

Dr. David C. Madoff is active in many of the major radiological societies including the Radiological Society of North America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Association of University Radiologists. Based on his important contributions to the field, David C. Madoff was elected Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology in 2007 and Fellow of the American College of Radiology in 2015.

Luigi Solbiati worked from 1980 to 2015 at the General Hospital of Busto Arsizio (Varese), rising from Assistant Radiologist to Chairman of the Department of Oncology and Head of the Division of Interventional Oncologic Radiology.

He pioneered ultrasound-guided aspiration biopsies (1979), ethanol injection (1983), radiofrequency ablation with cool-tip electrodes (1995) and microwaves (2009) of solid tumors and fusion imaging for the guidance of interventional procedures (2003). In parallel, he has been serving as an adjunct Professor of “Techniques and Methods of Diagnostic Imaging” from 1988 to 2014 at the School of Radiology of the University of Milan.

He gave more than 480 scientific presentations at Meetings, Congresses and Courses in 23 countries. He has been Guest Lecturer at the Universities of San Diego, Zurich, Beijing, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Cairo, Vienna, Yale and at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester). Chairman of the 1st World Conference on Interventional Oncology (Cernobbio, Italy) in 2006. Chairman of the 1^st Interventional Oncology Sans Frontieres Congress (IOSFC) (Cernobbio, Italy) in 2013.