Janet Husband
Dame Janet Elizabeth Siarey Husband, DBE, FRCR, is Emeritus Professor of Radiology at the Institute of Cancer Research. She retired from full-time clinical practice as a consultant radiologist at the NHS Foundation Trust in September 2007.
Personal life
She was educated at Headington School for Girls, Oxford. She and her husband have three sons.
Career
After qualifying in medicine and undertaking house jobs at Guys' Hospital, she worked as a general practitioner (G.P.) for several years while raising her children. She was one of the first women to train in radiology.
Janet Husband began early research on the prototype of the world's first CT body scanner at Northwick Park Hospital and was then appointed to the Royal Marsden as a Research Fellow, focusing on cross-sectional cancer imaging.
Positions at Royal Marsden
- Consultant Radiologist (named 1980)
- Head of the Academic Department of Radiology (named 1985)
- Medical Director (from 2003 to 2006)
Affiliations
- Member, Co-operation and Competition Panel for NHS-funded services * Specially Appointed Commissioner to the Royal Hospital Chelsea[1]
- Personal Chair, Institute of Cancer Research (1996)
- International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS; co-founder, with Rodney Reznek)
- President, ICIS (named 2000)
- London CT/MRI/PET Annual National Teaching Course at Gleneagles (1980–2007)
- President (first woman), Royal College of Radiologists (RCR),[2] where she spear-headed the Radiology Integrated Training Initiative
- President, British Institute of Radiology
- Elected member, Council of the GMC
- Member, National Cancer Director's Advisory Board
- UK Accreditation of Radiology Services
- Professor of Diagnostic Radiology/Co-Director of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Magnetic Resonance Research Group at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Writings
Husband has published over 300 peer reviewed articles, reviews, books and book chapters. She co-edited, Imaging in Oncology with Rodney Reznek. This 2 volume multi-author text is regarded as the standard reference text in its field and places the UK as a leading authority in cancer radiology. The third edition of Imaging in Oncology was scheduled for publication in 2009. The book's first edition won the Society of Authors' Medical Section first prize for a multi-contributor textbook in 1999.
Affiliations & fellowships
- Member of Society of Computed Body Tomography (USA; 1980)
- Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences (2001)
- President, British Institute of Radiology (2003–04)
- Hon. Fellowship of the Faculty of Radiology, Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland; 2005)
- Hon. Fellowship of the Academy of Medicine (Singapore; 2005)
- Hon. Membership of the Radiological Society of North America (2005)
- Member, Council of the General Medical Council (2005–08)
- Vice Chair, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (2005–2007)
- Gold Medal, European Congress of Radiology and the European Association of Radiology (2006)
- Honorary Fellowship Hong Kong College of Radiologists (2007)
- Honorary Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2008)
- Hon. Membership, European Society of Therapeutic and Radiation Oncology (1999)
- Member, Caring Services Trustees Committee of Marie Curie Cancer Care
- Trustee, International Cancer Imaging Society
Honours
Husband was appointed OBE in 2002 and DBE in 2007 "for services to medicine".[3]
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