Prof Louise Rainford awarded the prestigious BIR Deep Health Mayneord Memorial Lecture

Congratulations to Professor Louise Rainford who was awarded the BIR Deep Health Mayneord Memorial Lecture. It’s a great honour for a member of the Radiography profession to be recognised for this prestigious award. Prof Rainford is the Head of Radiography & Diagnostic Imaging within the UCD School of Medicine.

Prof Rainford was nominated anonymously for this award and delivered a presentation entitled Blue Sky or Storm Clouds: transforming the "traditional" to embrace the future at BIR Congress 2025 in London on 21 November.

Here is a link to the (opens in a new window)Scientific Programme.

About the BIR Deep Health Mayneord Memorial Lecture:

Founded in 1984 in memory of Professor W V Mayneord CBE FRS, Past President and Honorary Member of the BIR. The lecture is given at the BIR Annual Congress. It is an annual award made to an individual or a group of collaborators in recognition of recent or current contributions in the wide and expanding field of radiology. Nominations may also be accepted from individuals in other areas of healthcare or management whose innovative research or work has a relevance or interest to those working in the fields of radiology, radiation oncology and the underlying sciences. From 2022 this prize is being generously sponsored by Deep Health (formerly Aidence). The sponsoring company presents a plaque to the recipient after the lecture has been given.

Well done, Prof Rainford.