Gold Medallist

Prof. Afshin Gangi received his education at the International French School of Tehran, graduating in 1980. During the summer of 1980, he attended medical school at the University of Reims in France, receiving his degree in 1987. He began his residency in Strasbourg in 1987, first in the intensive care unit and the pneumology department, where he became excited about imaging and moved to the imaging department. After his residency in general radiology and neuroradiology, he worked for one year in interventional radiology with Professor R.F. Dondelinger in Luxembourg.

Prof. Gangi began his fellowship in Strasbourg in November 1991 in the department of neuroradiology and MSK with a special interest in percutaneous procedures.  He performed his first vertebroplasty in 1989 during his residency and continued to develop image-guided procedures in interventional oncology, especially under CT-C arm fluoroscopy and MR guidance.  In 1995, Prof. Gangi obtained his Ph.D. in laser physics in Strasbourg. During the same year, he was appointed assistant professor at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, and he became a full professor of Radiology in 2000.  Since 2014, he has worked with Prof. Andy Adam at King’s College London as an invited professor for research in interventional oncology and HIFU.

Prof. Gangi holds numerous patents and is an author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. He has more than 40 book chapters to his credit, along with over 500 abstracts at numerous national and international conferences.

Currently, Prof. Gangi is the chairperson of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital and works in the Department of Interventional Radiology with a special interest in interventional oncology. He is actively involved in different international societies and is the past president of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE).