Radiologist
Dr Elspeth Whitby

Dr Elspeth Whitby heads the service at Sheffield, working in close collaboration with the radiographers, physicist, radiographic aids and fetal medicine specialists.

Elspeth has been doing fetal MRI since 1998 and is instrumental in driving the service forward.

As well as providing a clinical service she is actively involved in research to improve the service for patients and expand the role of fetal MRI in the clinical arena.

To ensure a service that the patients want she works alongside a medical sociologist (Dr Kate reed) looking at the role of MRI in imaging the fetus and the various different aspects of the service.

Radiologist
Dr Ashok Raghavan

Medical Sociologist
Professor Kate Reed

To ensure a service that the patients want, Elspeth works alongside medical sociologist, Professor Kate Reed, looking at the role of MRI in imaging the fetus and the various different aspects of the service.

Radiographers

A team of radiographers are available to obtain the images required. Both male and female radiographers work as part of the team and have several years of experience between them. All have degrees or equivalent in diagnostic radiography and additional postgraduate MRI training.

These team members support the radiologist and radiographers and ensure the quality of the images and safety of the scanners. They are also important to improve image quality, design and develop new sequences and part of both the clinical and research teams.

Our centre’s Senior MR Physicist is Andrew Fry.

Radiographic Aids

A team of aids work across the hospitals MRI scanners, both male and female aids work in the team. They are likely to be the first person you meet who will explain the procedure to you and show you where to change and the lockers you will be using.

Reception Staff

This team of staff work on the reception desk for the whole of the department and will be the first people you meet on arrival They will ensure the staff know you have arrived for your scan and tell you where to go to wait.