Medicine, Science and Academia
Professor David Matthew Hansell (Garrett 1966-1975)
He went to King’s College, London and then trained to be a doctor at Westminster Medical School. Royal Brompton Hospital appointed him consultant radiologist in 1989, where he developed one of the first ‘filmless’ radiology departments in the UK in the mid-1990s. He was appointed Professor of Thoracic Imaging, Imperial College, London in 1998. His primary specialty is radiology of the lungs. He has been President of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging. He is the senior author of a highly acclaimed textbook “Imaging of Diseases of the Chest” (2005), the Editor of Clinical Radiology from 2002-2006 and the author or co-author of more than 200 papers listed on the PubMed database.