awards

2024 Award Recipients

Potchen-Passariello Award

Potchen-Passariello Predoctoral Stream Awardees:
1st place: Tabita Catalán
2nd place: Thara Nallamothu
3rd place: Pia Callmer

Potchen-Passariello Postdoctoral Stream Awardees:
1st place: Judit Csore
2nd place: Simon Littlewood
3rd place: Andrew Phair

Potchen-Passariello Award

Potchen-Passariello Predoctoral Stream Awardees:
1st place: Tabita Catalán
2nd place: Thara Nallamothu
3rd place: Pia Callmer

Potchen-Passariello Postdoctoral Stream Awardees:
1st place: Judit Csore
2nd place: Simon Littlewood
3rd place: Andrew Phair

Junior Fellowship Award

Judit Csore		 Dr. Judit Csőre graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Semmelweis University,
Budapest, Hungary, in 2018. Her research journey began in her third year, under
Professor Krisztina Kádár, focusing on multimodal imaging of Kawasaki Disease. During
her studies, she received several awards, presented her work at national and
international conferences, and published multiple first- and co-author papers. As a
founding member of the Council on Kawasaki Disease of the Hungarian Society of
Cardiology, she played a key role in establishing the Hungarian Kawasaki Registry. In
September 2018, Dr. Csőre began her radiology residency at the Department of
Radiology, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University. Early in her training, she
worked with the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Group on cardiac CT studies. Since
2019, her focus has been on advanced MR angiographic techniques for lower extremity
arterial diseases, mentored by Dr. Csaba Csobay-Novák. In 2022, she moved to the US
and joined Dr. Trisha Roy’s team at Houston Methodist Hospital as a postdoctoral
fellow, focusing on translating novel MRI techniques and endovascular devices into
clinical practice. Her work involved studies using human cadaveric models and AI-
based software development for peripheral vascular disease. This collaboration
attracted over $3.6 million in NIH and American Heart Association funding, resulting in
over 60 conference presentations and 8 publications. Alongside her research, Dr. Csőre
mentors students in both Hungary and the US. She has presented her research
globally, earning awards for her presentations and was named Postdoctoral Fellow of
the Year at Houston Methodist in 2024. Dr. Csőre recently completed her PhD on
advanced MRI techniques for peripheral arterial disease and is now building a vascular
MRI lab at Semmelweis University while finishing her radiology residency. She actively
participates in the Society for Magnetic Resonance Angiography as the educational
liaison of the early career committee and will co-chair the society’s annual meeting in
Budapest in 2025.

Lexiaozi Fan

 Lexiaozi Fan, PhD, is a second-year postdoctoral fellow in the Radiology Department at
Northwestern University, working with Dr. Daniel Kim. Her research is centered on
advancing the application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance by integrating cutting-
edge techniques, including novel pulse sequences, advanced image reconstruction and
analysis methods, and deep learning.

Anastasia Fotaki		 Anastasia Fotaki graduated from the University of Crete in 2012. Since then, her clinical
and research work has focused on applying and advancing imaging techniques, to
optimise outcomes for patients with Congenital Heart Disease. She started training in
Fetal and Paediatric Cardiology in Royal Brompton Hospital in London. During this time
her research concentrated on advanced echocardiographic applications to study cardiac
morphology in fetal life. Following that she undertook a PhD at King’s College London,
under the auspices of Professors Claudia Prieto and René Botnar. She examined novel
approaches to enable 3D, contrast-agent free, whole-heart techniques in cardiac MRI
and the potential for deep-learning approaches to accelerate imaging in patients with
Congenital Heart Disease. These datasets have also formed the basis of multiple
ongoing projects designing, testing and utilising deep-learning based algorithms.
Subsequent to this, Anastasia conducted research investigating novel techniques for
clinical imaging at 0.55T CMR system, to improve accessibility and clinical care of
patients with congenital heart disease.
Anastasia is currently a consultant paediatric cardiologist with expertise in
Cardiovascular Imaging, at Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’s London.
Her current focus is on continuing to improve the use of cardiovascular MRI for better
patient treatment and outcomes in congenital heart disease. She is dedicated to the
development of international research collaborations to maximise impact and
dissemination of clinical research developments. Training of undergraduates, graduate
and post-graduate students and researchers, technicians and junior doctors is an
essential part of her academic and clinical work, as well as collaboration with scientists,
and industrial partners.
SMRA and MICCAI Grand Challenge (INSTED2024)

1st Place: Team MIC

Affiliation / Institution:
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Team members:
Andrés Martínez Mora, Michael Baumgartner, Raphael Stock, Jessica Kächelefiliation

2nd Place: Team HNPH

Affiliation / Institution:
Henan Provincial People’s Hospital
Harbin Institute of Technology
CTS Philips

Team members:
Song Tian, Meiyun Wang, Yaping Wu, Yan Bai, Zengyang Che, Xuan Yu, Jingyu Xie, Sicong Huang, Zhixuan Song

3rd Place: Team BriBra

Affiliation / Institution:
Anke High-tech Co., Ltd.

Team members:
Xiongjie Shen, Gaojie Zhu