BSUR Committee

Dr Tristan Barrett (Chair May 2024- May 2026)

Tristan Barrett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary NHS Consultant Radiologist. He has been clinical lead for uroradiology and the director of the Cambridge academic Radiology programme. His main clinical research interest is in prostate cancer, with a particular interest in multi-parametric MRI techniques for identifying and characterising prostate tumours. Dr Barrett is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority, and in 2022, he was awarded the Royal College of Radiologists Roentgen Professorship and was also awarded the European School of Radiology Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis Teaching Fellowship.

Maryna Brochwicz Lewinski (Vice Chair September 2024-May 2026) has been involved in the BSUR committee since 2020 when she took up the position of secretary and since then has been the organiser for the BSUR ASM in Manchester in May 2024. She works as a DGH radiologist in Stockport with interests in gynae and uroradiology, but is mainly diagnostic since she took up the role locally of Associate Medical Director. She was elected to the position of VP/VC in September 2024 and will take over as BSUR chair in May 2026.

Dr. Sandeep Pathak (BAUS Rep October 2023- October 2025) is a Consultant Uroradiologist with extensive expertise in the field of urogenital imaging and intervention. Dr. Pathak has a strong clinical interest in prostate imaging, renal imaging, and oncological radiology.  He has EBIR accreditation from CIRSE and is the clinical lead for interventional radiology at Whipps Cross Hospital, Barts Health.  Dr. Pathak is also a dedicated educator, mentoring trainees and engaging in various teaching activities. He is an advocate for continual professional development and is a regular speaker at educational events and workshops.  As the BAUS rep of BSUR, Dr. Pathak contributes to the promotion of best practices in uroradiology and collaborates with fellow professionals to drive innovation and improve standards of care within the specialty.

Rachel Hubbard (Communications September 2023- September 2025) is a Consultant UroRadiologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecture in Sheffield. Keen on education she is College Tutor, medical student lead and Head of Phase 2b at Sheffield Medical School. She has a postgraduate certificate in medical education from UCL/ Royal College of Physicians and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority.

Passionate about reducing health inequalities across the UK, especially in Urological Cancers, Rachel heads up the imaging for a variety of trials under Prof Catto and Prof Hussain including the Finesse and Invest trials.

She was selected as part of this year’s cohort of Prostate Cancer Clinical Champions an award-winning leadership training programme.

She works closely with the Urologists and BAUS, regularly lecturing at their FRCS Urol exam course and helping with their SAS education/ revision programme.

Rachel got introduced to BSUR at their conference in Shefield 2018 as a trainee (which led to her future Consultant job) and is currently social media and communications officer. Internationally, Rachel works with Vine Trust to educate and train up local doctors providing medical care in remote areas in Lake Victoria, Tanzania and the Amazon regions of Peru in ultrasound.

Rebecca Wiles (Education officer February 2025 to February 2027) trained in radiology in Liverpool. During this time she was awarded an RCRscholarship in order to undertake a gynaecological radiology placement in Leeds Teaching Hospitals . She was appointed as a Consultant Radiologist in 2014 in Liverpool. She has specialist interests in gynaecological and abdominal imaging and has led the development of multiple new services including endometriosis and multi surgeon pelvic surgery MDTs and introducing new techniques such as placental MRI. 

She was appointed as BSUR gynae representative in October 2022 and now as Education representative. Her work with BSUR has included organising sessions for, and speaking at, the annual meeting and helping to write national guidelines. She is interested in education, regularly speaking at national and international events and teaching local trainees, including an annual regional gynaecological imaging teaching day. 

Her research interests include gynaecological oncology and imaging in pregnancy. She enjoys spending time with her family, travelling, exercising and going to Anfield to watch Liverpool Football Club.

Nishat Bharwani (previous ASM organiser May 2025 to May 2026) Dr Bharwani qualified with honours from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ Medical School in 2000 and undertook basic medical training in London and Brighton, obtaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003.  She then trained in Radiology at St George's Hospital, London followed by a fellowship in body MRI at Barts and The London NHS Trust, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2008.

Dr Bharwani was appointed to her substantive Consultant post at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2011 and is head of service for urological and gynaecological imaging and joint Training Programme Director for Radiology Specialist trainees.  She is a Diagnostic Radiologist with specialist interests in Gynaecological and Urological imaging.  Within gynaecological imaging she is a core member of the tertiary gynaecological oncology, endometriosis and female congenital anomaly multidisciplinary teams at Imperial.

Dr Bharwani also holds an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer position at Imperial College London.  Her research interests lie within gynaecological, oncological and urological imaging.  

Balraj Dhesi (Treasurer due to end June 2026) is a Consultant Abdominal Radiologist working at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.  He became treasurer of BSUR in 2022. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with Honours in 2011, and subsequently did his foundation jobs and radiology training in the West Midlands. His main subspecialty interests are Uroradiology (including prostate biopsies), Colorectal and Peritoneal imaging. He is Subspecialty Lead for Genitourinary Radiology at the trust and REALM lead. He holds the posts of Honorary Clinical Tutor at the University of Birmingham and Specialist Lecturer at Birmingham City University.

Sam Withey (Past ASM organiser May 2025 to May 2026) . I graduated from Imperial College in 2013 and undertook a master’s degree in medical physics prior to radiology training. I am currently a final year registrar at Guy’s & St Thomas’ hospitals, undertaking subspecialty training in urological and adrenal imaging. My research interests include Radiomics & Artificial Intelligence.

Jina Pakpoor (Trainee Rep Gynae September 2024 to September 2026) is a trainee representative of the BSUR committee and a radiology registrar at UCLH. She is currently subspecialising in urogynae imaging with a particular interest in gynaecological malignancies. She has also spent three years as an academic clinical fellow with a focus on medical education.

I am a LTFTT (research) ST6 in interventional radiology in Glasgow and a doctoral clinical research fellow in The Institute of genetics and cancer at the University of Edinburgh. My thesis is on diagnosis, management and prognostication in malignant ureteric obstruction. I am funded by The Royal College of Radiologists and The Urology Foundation. I manage the INSITE MUO and OPTIMISE MUO Multicentre retrospective and perspective studies collaborating with the UK national interventional Radiology trainee collaborative (UNITE) and BAUS Oncology Section.

In the future I would like be involved in clinical trials and health technology assessments in interventional radiology techniques, particularly in embolotherapy, and disease modifying interventional uroradiology such as prostate artery embolisation and renal tumour cryoablation. 

Eva Serrao (Research and guidelines officer February 2025 to Feburary 2027)

Eva M Serrão, PhD FRCR is a Radiology Consultant at the Cambridge University Hospitals, Addenbrookes Hospital. She graduated from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and subsequently obtained her Doctorate degree and Radiology training from the University of Cambridge (UK) followed by a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at the Joint Department of Medical Imaging at UHN (Toronto, Canada). Currently, she is a Diagnostic Radiologist with specialist interests in Oncology (including WB-MRI and biopsy procedures) and Urological imaging.

She has always nurtured significant interest for abdominal imaging research, having done basic and clinical imaging research on hyperpolarised 13C and more recently research on novel abdominal MRI sequences and radiogenomics. She has published in several high impact peer-reviewed journals throughout her career, and received awards/prizes for her work.