Executive Team
A/Prof Hal Rice, President
Associate Professor Hal Rice is the Director of Neurointervention at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland Australia. He studied Medicine at the University of Queensland with subsequent Specialist training in Radiology at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital before advanced fellowship training in Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Returning to the Gold Coast in 2002 he founded the Neurointerventional service at Gold Coast University Hospital and subsequently in 2006 founded Qscan Radiology Clinics a comprehensive private Radiology group practice. He hosted the ANZSNR ASM on Hamilton Island in 2007. He has chaired the annual NeuroExchange National Neurointerventional Mortality and Morbidity complications meeting since its inception in 2009. In November 2015 he hosted the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology WFITN 13th Congress on the Gold Coast. He has previously held multiple RANZCR college positions, including chairing the CPD committee, ccINR founding committee member and served on the RANZCR Executive Board and as National Treasurer. He is dedicated to innovation in all aspects of Neurological Imaging and in minimally invasive endovascular treatments of brain vascular abnormalities, aneurysms and acute ischaemic stroke. The Gold Coast service has been involved in multiple global first in human cases, clinical trials and has been instrumental in developing and accelerating innovative treatment devices and techniques, most recently with Robotic Neurovascular procedures. He founded the NeuTex Image Guided Therapy Surgical and Robotics Training centre at the Gold Coast health and Knowledge precinct hosting multiple advanced training programs for Neurointerventionalists and Fellows from throughout the Asia Pacific region. He is a board member of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery, Griffith University Council and the Gold Coast Titans professional National Rugby League team.
Dr Jennifer Gillespie, Secretary General
Dr Jen Gillespie is a Radiologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane. She has a special interest in Head and Neck and Skull Base imaging. She is heavily involved in teaching and is the Network Training Director for the RBWH. She is a member of the Head and Neck Cancer, Pituitary and Skull Base MDTs at the RBWH. She was the Head and Neck representative for the Australian and New Zealand Society of Neuroradiology between 2020 and 2025.
Dr Con Phatouros, Past President
Con is a medical graduate of the University of Western Australia. After specialising in Radiology, he developed his interest in Neuroradiology while working with Dr Trevor ApSimon & Prof’s Mark Khangure & Turab Chakera in the Interventional Neuroradiology Unit in Perth, Western Australia. Following this, he spent 18 months in the United Kingdom subspecialising in Diagnostic & Interventional Neuroradiology working at The Royal Free Hospital, The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square London and Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham. This was followed by a 2-year fellowship in Interventional Neuroradiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He returned to Perth in 2000 as a Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiologist at Royal Perth Hospital.
Con was the inaugural Head of Department of the Neurological Intervention & Imaging Service of WA (NIISwa) upon its formal establishment by the WA Health Department in 2007. NIISwa is a state cross-campus service and the only stand-alone Neuroradiology Department in Australasia. He was subsequently appointed Medical Co-Director of the Division of Neurosciences at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital for a term of three years. Con is currently NIISwa HOD, a Member of the Board of Authority for WA Health Hospital Support Services (HSS) and Vice President of the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (ASMOF) WA branch. Con has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific items including several book chapters.
