Competition I: Africa

Saturday September 18, 2021

Our first Global Health Imaging Case Report Competition was a huge success. Over 1000 registered to attend with over 650 unique viewers throughout the duration of the event from over 50 countries.

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Inaugural Case Competition Winners

The winners received cash awards, and our first-place winner, Dr. Chikalipo, was invited to submit his case to Applied Radiology with mentored guidance. 

 

FIRST PLACE: "A rare case of lumps"

Mzati Chikalipo, MBBS
Surgery Fellow
Mercy James Centre for Pediatric Surgery & Intensive Care
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital
Blantyre, Malawi

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SECOND PLACE: "A case of diprosopus with associated CNS anomaly"

Yohannes Zewdie, MD
Radiology Resident
Black Lion Hospital
Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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PEOPLE'S CHOICE: "Minimally invasive management of a spontaneous mediastinal abscess in a pediatric patient"

Ofonime Ukweh, MBBCh, FWACS
Interventional Radiology Fellow
Muhimbill University of Health and Allied Sciences
Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania

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Keynote Speaker

Hammed Ninalowo, MD
Co Director, Accuread Radiology Nig LTD
Founder, CEO, IRDOC Vascular and Interventional Radiology LTD

Dr. Hammed Ninalowo is a Vascular and Interventional Radiologist who completed his IR training here at Penn Medicine. He is the first U.S.-trained physician to offer the full spectrum of interventional radiology services in Nigeria.

“I was told that standing up an IR practice in sub-Saharan Africa was impossible. It was then my mission to make the advanced therapies of interventional radiology readily available there. IRDOCNIGERIA was founded because I simply believed 'impossible' was nothing.”

Guest Judge

Pradnya Mhatre, MD, MRMD
Editorial Board Member, Applied Radiology
Focus: New AR Column on Global Health Imaging

Competition II: Latin America and the Caribbean

February 26, 2022

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Case Competition Winners

FIRST PLACE: "Renal tuberculosis"
Dr. Lorena Diogenes
Brazil

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SECOND PLACE: "Progressive osseous heteroplasia"
Dr. Facundo Ferrari
Argentina

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THIRD PLACE: "Diastematomyelia and double aortic arch"
Dr. Federico Lipsich
Argentina

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PEOPLE'S CHOICE: "Spinal trauma with congenital anomaly"
Dr. Liz Arela-Quispe
Peru

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Keynote Speaker: Silvina Zabala-Travers, MD

Surgical Virtual Planning and 3D Printing
Pereira Rossell Hospital Center
Montevideo, Uruguay

Dr. Silvina Zabala-Travers is a pediatric radiologist and 3D specialist. She leads the Surgical Virtual Planning and 3D Printing Area at the Radiology Department Pereira Rossell Hospital Center, a state and university laboratory for the application of 3D technologies in diagnostics, surgical virtual planning, clinical simulation and education for pediatric and adult patients. She also works as a 3D specialist independent consultant for other local and international clinics. She presides over the Latin American Society of Pediatric Radiology (SLARP) New Technologies Committee, which works for the implementation of new technologies such as 3D biomodeling and artificial intelligence in Latin American countries. She also works as Radiology Section Editor for the Elsevier Journal Annals of 3D Printed Medicine.

Dr Zabala-Travers obtained her medical doctor and radiologist degree in Uruguay, and trained on the application of 3D technologies in medicine on various courses abroad, including the Expert 3D course and an internship at the Sant Joan de Déu 3D Printing Unit at Barcelona, Spain. Since then, she has been participating as an invited professor at the Expert 3D course sharing her experience implementing a hospital 3D lab in a low-resource facility, as well as giving conferences and hands-on training on segmentation, biomodeling and virtual planning for bioengineers and surgical specialists.

Guest Judge: Pradnya Mhatre, MD, MRMD

Editorial Board Member, Applied Radiology
Focus: New AR Column on Global Health Imaging

 

 

Competition III: Africa and the Middle East 

September 17, 2022

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Case Competition Winners

1st Place: 'A rare case of rachipagus parasitic twin, associated with a lipomyelomeningocele and tethered cord'

Hamim A. Rusheke

Tanzania

 

2nd Place: 'Pediatric traumatic penetrating brain injury from a wood fragment: surgical and medical management following delayed presentation'

Ndaro Daniel

Kenya

 

2nd Place: 'Mediastinal hydatid disease: a case report'

Neda Khalili

Iran

 

3rd Place: 'The difficult coughing infant'

Rachel Kajuna

Tanzania

 

3rd Place: 'A Rare cause of extensive intracranial calcifications presenting with seizure disorder in resource limited settings'

Kebede Gofer Gebretsadik

Liberia

 

People's Choice Award: 'An unexpected cause of abdominal and back pain: three large gossypibomas related to remote surgery'

Daniel Moenga

Kenya

 

Keynote Speaker: Frank Minja, MD

Associate Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine.

Frank J. Minja MD, is Associate Professor of Neuroradiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Minja is passionate about establishing curriculum-based radiology sub-specialty training programs in East Africa. Dr. Minja co-leads the Road2IR.org consortium which established the first Interventional Radiology Fellowship (2018) in East Africa and will graduate the second cohort of seven (7) IR Fellows this Fall, 2022. Dr. Minja is also Program Director for the RSNA Global Learning Center in Tanzania, which has helped to establish Neuroradiology (2019) and soon Women’s Imaging (2022) Fellowships at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We are excited to share our experiences and lessons learned to help address the severe lack of sub-specialty Radiology training programs in Lower to Middle Income Countries (LIMCs).

Guest Judge, Karen Chetcuti

Karen Chetcuti, is a Maltese national who obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Malta in 2005 and completed her radiology training in the Liverpool Deanery in the United Kingdom in 2014. She embarked on a fellowship in Paediatric Radiology at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, subsequently returning to practice as a Paediatric Radiology Consultant at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Her practice of radiology in resource-constrained environments commenced approximately 10 years ago through remote and on-site project-based work with Médecins Sans Frontières. She currently holds the position of Consultant Radiologist, Postgraduate Lead and Lecturer in Radiology at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (formerly known as the College of Medicine of Malawi). She is passionate about strategising capacity building initiatives, troubleshooting and brainstorming innovative workflow solutions, networking and constructing educational collaboratives as well as actively partaking in research in low and middle income countries.

 

Competition IV: Asia

December 16, 2022

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Case Competition Winners

1st Place: 'Contrast-enhanced cranial MRI findings in a 39-year-old Filipino male with cerebral schistosomiasis: a case report'

Roman Aldo D. Reyes

Philippines

 

2nd Place: 'Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome with Endometriotic cyst'

Justin Daniel C. Belmonte

Philippines

 

3rd Place: 'Endovascular Management of a Mural Type of Vein of Galen Malformation in a 5-year old, Filipino child with Seizures: A Case Report'

Nikko dela Cruz

Philippines

 

People's Choice Award: 'Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis'

Nona Shrestha

Thailand

 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bhavin Jankharia

Dr. Bhavin Jankharia is a consultant radiology in private practice in Mumbai, India. His main interests are cardiothoracic radiology and interventional CT, followed by rheumatology imaging and evaluation of focal bone lesions.

He has done his MBBS (1987) and then MD in Radiology (1991) from Mumbai University with multiple fellowships and observerships abroad. He has been the Past President of the Indian Radiology and Imaging Association (2014) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging (2007-2013). He has also recently been the President of the Indian Musculoskeletal Oncology Society. 

Guest Judge: Li Yao, MD

Competition V: Latin America and the Caribbean

March 18, 2023

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Case Competition Winners

1st Place: 'Left Ventricular Apical Hipoplasia, report of a case'

Francisca Aliaga

Chile

 

2nd Place: 'Recurrent Respiratory papillomatosis'

Rodolfo Lourenço

Brazil

 

3rd place: 'Atypical Hepatic Mesenchymal Hamartoma'

Jennifer Richardson

Colombia

 

People’s Choice Award: 'Intra and Extra-Nasal Glial Heteropia in a Newborn with Congenital Nasal Tumor'

Andrea Buzzi

Argentina

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carlos F. Ugas Charcape

Dr. Carlos F. Ugas Charcape is a Pediatric Radiologist with 14 years of experience in the field. He is currently working at the Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño San Borja in Peru, where he serves as the Head of the Department of Diagnostic Support and Department of Research and Innovation. He is involved in research that focuses on thoracic and cardiac imaging, general pediatric imaging, and innovations such as AI and 3D printing.

In addition, Dr. Ugas is an active member of the Latin American Society of Pediatric Radiology (SLARP) and is currently serving as President. He is also on the editorial staff for the Pediatric Radiology Journal.

Guest Judge: Stephanie C. Cajigas-Loyola, MD

Stephanie C. Cajigas-Loyola, MD, is an attending radiologist and the Associate Director of the Fellowship, Residency, and Observership Programs with the Department of Radiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Competition VI: Africa and the Middle East

September 16, 2023

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Case Competition Winners

1st Place: 'Medura Head’

Dr. Natnael Bezabih

Ethiopia

 

2nd Place: ‘A rare retroperitoneal mass’

Dr. Bethleen Waisiko

Kenya

 

3rd place: ‘Communicating bronchopulmonary foregut’

Dr. Zerihun Hailu

Ethiopia

 

People’s Choice Award: ‘Cyst or Aneurysm?’ The role of color flow doppler mode! 

Dr. Kebede Gebretsadik

Liberia 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Amal Saleh Nour

Dr. Amal Saleh Nour is a neuroradiologist with 15 years of experience in radiology, 5 of which were in the field of neuroradiology. Dr. Saleh is currently serving as the Dean of the School of Medicine in the College of Health Sciences at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She holds prominent roles including the President of the Council of Medical Schools in Ethiopia and the Vice President of the Ethiopian Medical Association. In addition, she is an active participant in various medical societies such as the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR), Radiological Society of Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian Medical Association. Dr. Saleh’s work and outreach continues to shape the landscape of neuroradiology and healthcare in Ethiopia and beyond.

Guest Panel: “Decolonizing Global Health"

This event featured the first guest panel discussion on Decolonizing Global Health, with Drs. Amal Saleh Nour, James Alaro, and Toma Omofoye. Amal Saleh Nour, MD is the Dean of School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & President of the Council of Medial Schools, Ethiopia. James Alaro, PhD, is the Scientific Program Director of the Center of Global Health National Cancer Institute. Toma Omofoye, MD is an Associate Professor and Strategic Director of Breast Imaging at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Competition VII: Asia and Oceania

January 19, 2024

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Case Competition Winners

1st Place: Ovarian cyst with bony lesions

Dr. Haneena P

India

 

2nd Place: Chiari II malformation & thoracic myelominengocele 

Dr. Jazreel Botacion  

Philippines

 

3rd place: Lung cancer resembling pneumonia

Dr. Lam Le Tran Khanh

Vietnam

 

People’s Choice Award: Biotinidase deficiency mimicking neuromyelitis optica’

Dr. Abdur Rehman 

Pakistan

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mingmar Sherpa

Dr. Mingmar Gyelzen Sherpa was born and raised in Phaplu, Solokhumbu, in the foothills of Mt. Everest. Unlike his Sherpa peers who took up climbing with ambitions of scaling Everest, Dr. Mingmar spent his time reading. He was the first physician in the Sherpa community. He served his community for several years as a rural physician. He spent some time in Kathmandu when he led the Ministry of Health. His heart, however, was always in rural Nepal. He learned point-of-care ultrasound which he taught to nurses and midwives to spot high risk pregnancies and divert such patients to more advanced obstetric care than is available in remote areas. He convinced the Health Ministry of the role of ultrasound in saving women's lives, as early as in 2006. His efforts have substantially reduced maternal mortality, particularly in Western Nepal. His endeavor is the finest case study of "imaging saves lives".

Competition VIII: Latin America and the Caribbean

April 20, 2024

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Case Competition Winners

1st Place: Hydatid disease: beyond lung and liver

Dr. Pamela Romanque

Chile

 

2nd Place: Twin pregnancy? Complete invasive hydatidiform mole and normal fetus 

Dr. Samira Abraham

Argentina

 

3rd place: Right upper quadrant pain, hepatomegaly, and pleural effusion: Identifying common radiological signs of Dengue

Dr. Carlos Almeida

Ecuador

 

People’s Choice Award: Dengue - Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage

Dr. Ramon David Perez Rojas

Argentina

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lina Cadavid Álvarez

Dr. Lina Cadavid Álvarez is a distinguished Pediatric Radiologist at Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe - IMEDI in Medellín, Colombia. As a university instructor and a member of the Asociación Colombiana de Radiología (ACR) and Sociedad Latinoamericana de Radiología Pediátrica (SLARP), she has contributed significantly to the field of radiology.