Dr. Stephen Harden has been elected as the incoming president of the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), succeeding Dr. Kath Halliday.
Harden, who is the RCR’s current vice-president of clinical radiology, will begin his term as president officially on 1 September 2025 for the next three years. He will remain in his current position until then.
Harden has been a consultant in cardiothoracic radiology at University Hospital Southampton since 2005.
Dr. Stephen Harden. Image courtesy of the ECR and Sebastian Kreuzberger.
Previously, Harden served as medical director for education and training in clinical radiology from 2019 to 2022, and he chaired the RCR Clinical Radiology Professional Learning and Development subcommittee from 2017 to 2019 and has been an FRCR Part 2A examiner.
He has also served as president of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging and as vice president of the British Institute of Radiology. The RCR noted that Harden was the first RCR Travelling Cardiac Professor.
Additionally, he has been the senior cardiac editor for the British Journal of Radiology (BJR).
