DR JONATHAN RODRIGUES

He trained at The University of Edinburgh, obtaining a First Class Honours intercalated degree in Experimental Pathology, and qualifying in 2008 as the Ettels Scholar (the most distinguished graduate of the year) with the Leslie Gold medal in Medicine, and the Annadale Gold medical in clinical surgery. He completed Academic Foundation Training in Edinburgh and South East Scotland and moved to Bristol to undertake specialist training in clinical radiology. During this time, he completed a PhD in clinical cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging at The Bristol Heart Institute and University of Bristol. He then undertook further advanced fellowship training in cardiothoracic imaging at Toronto General Hospital (one of the top hospitals in the World) and The University of Toronto. He has been a Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist at The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust since 2018, where he is lead for the non-invasive cardiac imaging service and research lead. He also holds an honorary senior lecturer position in the Department for Health at The University of Bath.

Jonathan holds several national positions including: guidelines and standard lead for the British Society of Thoracic Imaging, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) imaging workforce committee member, Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) professional learning and development committee member (thoracic lead) and United Kingdom Imaging and Oncology congress (UKIO) cardiac workstream lead. He is actively involved in multicentre cardiothoracic imaging research, having published over 75 original manuscripts in the peer-reviewed literature, and is currently studying a variety of artificial intelligence (AI) tools applied to imaging.