Professor David M Hansell

David Hansell MD FRCP FRCR FRSM is Professor of Thoracic Imaging at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Consultant Radiologist, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. His primary specialty is diagnostic imaging of the lungs and he has a particular interest in high resolution computed tomography of diffuse lung diseases.

Professor Hansell qualified from Westminster Hospital Medical School and after training in general medicine he specialised in radiology. He gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1987 and prior to taking up his clinical appointment at Royal Brompton Hospital in 1989 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Image Processing Laboratories, University of California, Los Angeles.

Professor Hansell is a member of numerous national and international working groups responsible for drawing up recommendations for the investigation and management of lung diseases. Recent projects include the complete revision of the Fleischner Society’s glossary of terms used in thoracic imaging (2008).

He is a frequent speaker at international meetings, including those of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging, the Fleischner Society (USA) and the Society of Thoracic Radiology (USA).  He has been President of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging and was on the organising committee of the First World Congress of Thoracic Imaging, held in Florence in 2005.  He has been co-organiser of numerous meetings since 1990, including the highly regarded triennial Cambridge Chest Meeting.

Professor Hansell is the senior author of an acclaimed textbook, Imaging of Diseases of the Chest, by Hansell, Lynch, McAdams and Bankier (Elsevier, 2010). He was Editor of Clinical Radiology (2002-2006) and has served on the editorial boards of several European and North American journals. He is the author or coauthor of more than 250 papers listed on PubMed. As well as supervising higher degrees of UK research fellows, Professor Hansell has been host to visiting radiologists from Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.