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Catherine Westbrook MSc DCRR PgC (L&T) CTCert FHEA

Cathy is a senior lecturer and post-graduate pathway leader at the Faculty of Health & Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge where she is responsible for post-graduate courses in MRI, CT, Radiography and Radiotherapy.
Cathy is also an independent teaching consultant providing teaching and assessment in MRI and radiographic related subjects to clients all over the world.

Cathy has worked in MRI since 1990 and has a MSc in MRI, a Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching and a Fellowship in Advanced MRI. Cathy is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a qualified Clinical Teacher.

Cathy has taught the MRI in Practice Course for many years and also teaches and examines on many other national and international courses, including undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In particular Cathy was involved in the development of the first reporting course for MRI radiographers and the first undergraduate course for Assistant Practitioners in MRI.

Cathy is the author of “MRI in Practice”, currently the World's best selling book in the field of diagnostic imaging*, “Handbook of MRI Technique” and “MRI at a Glance” and many other chapters and articles.

Cathy has been President of the British Association of MR Radiographers, Chairman of the Consortium for the Accreditation of Clinical MR Education and Honorary Secretary of the British Institute of Radiology.

John Talbot MSc DCRR PgC (L&T) FHEA


John is a senior lecturer in medical imaging at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He was formerly Education and Research Radiographer at Oxford MRI/Oxford University. He developed a very early interest in MRI as a school-leaver in 1977, and gained an MSc if the field of MRI in 1997.
He now lectures extensively around the World as co-presenter of MRI in Practice | The Course, (since 1992 the longest-running course of its genre outside of the USA) and presents regularly on the Oxford MRI Course which has rapidly gained a well-deserved reputation as being one of the best MRI courses for Radiologists in the UK.

Academically, John is a contributor to undergraduate and postgraduate MRI courses at Anglia Ruskin University and is pathway leader for the undergraduate Certificate of Higher Education in MRI award for assistant practitioners.

In publishing, John is a collaborator and illustrator on the third edition of “MRI in Practice” (Blackwell/Wiley), the new 3rd edition of the "Handbook of MRI Technique" (Blackwell/Wiley) and co-author of “Medical Imaging- Techniques, Reflection & Evaluation” (Elsevier).

In the field of eLearning, John was a pioneer in the field of live data-projection, and in 1999 was the producer/co-author of the first ever Live Conference CD whereby attendees received a fully narrated lecture from an international conference to "take away".
John's main interest is exploiting the parallelism between technology and learning and he is currently working on new concepts in the field of virtual learning environments, including the construction of an MRI scanner for (e.g) Second Life (WIP), and more recently, computer generated high definition movies and anaglyph 3D diagrams of MRI concepts for the all-new "next decade" version of MRI in Practice | The Course.