Ubuntu Stories
Harry Hu – USA
In March of 2025, 145 attendees convened at the Hub for Clinical Collaboration of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for the inaugural International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Body MRI Study Group workshop entitled “Body MRI: Unsolved Problems and Unmet Needs.” This event was the cumulative and passionate work of the study group leadership since the study group’s formation in 2023.
Approximately 24% of the attendees were M.D. or M.D./Ph.D.’s, 45% were Ph.D.’s, and 30% were early-career trainees and postdoctoral associates. Amongst the invited speakers and moderators, 28% were from outside the United States of America, with a 40:60% female-to-male ratio. The 2.5-day program brought together a multidisciplinary group of scientists, radiologists, technologists, and trainees to identify high-priority unsolved problems and unmet needs in body MRI. A major theme of the event echoed the philosophy of Ubuntu – and highlighted successful translational research and team science.