
Moderator: Prof. Mathias Prokop, MD, PhD
Radiologist
Chairman of the Department of Radiology
Radboud University Medical Center
University Medical Center Groningen
Nijmegen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Prof. Mathias Prokop, MD, PhD, is the department head of Imaging (Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Anatomy) of Radboudumc in Nijmegen and the Department Head of Radiology at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the current president of the Dutch Society of Radiology (NVvR). Prof. Prokop is an expert in body imaging and multislice CT. Since 2004, he has focused on the early detection of disease, especially lung screening and cardiac imaging and thoracic applications of machine learning. His departments host one of the largest research teams in Europe. Besides main clinical groups that tackle lung, breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancer and metabolic disease and vascular malformations, the department's research covers ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and AI, including computer-aided diagnosis and robot-assisted interventions.