Cambridge
0845 196 2421
catherine.westbrook@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• MSc Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
• Pgc Higher Education
• Diploma of the College of Radiographers, London
• Certificate in Clinical Teaching

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• HPC Registered Radiographer

Courses

Postgraduate Pathway Leader

• MSc Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computed Tomography, Radiography, Radiotherapy

Module Leader:

• Scientific Principles of MRI,
• Scientific Principles of CT,
• MRI Clinical Applications I,II and III,
• CT Clinical Applications I,II and III,
• Radiography,
• Inquiry and Practice I, II and III.

Admissions Tutor Postgraduate Radiography

Outline of career

I qualified as a Diagnostic Radiographer at St Thomas Hospital in London in 1981 and worked in London as a general radiographer until 1987. I then trained as a neuro-radiographer at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford where I worked until 1990. I started my career in MRI in 1989 and set up the Oxford MRI Centre. I joined Oxford University as the Research Lead in MRI in 1996. In 1999 I joined a US private healthcare company called HealthSouth as the Director of Education and Development in their diagnostic division. I carried on this role with MIA Lodestone until 2004 when I joined Anglia Ruskin University as a Senior Lecturer in Radiography. I have written three of the best selling MRI books in the world "MRI in Practice", "Handbook of MRI Technique" and "MRI at a Glance". I am an invited international lecturer on many MRI seminars and conferences.

Research Interest

Online Collaborative Learning Strategies Admissions criteria and how they relate to student performance in postgraduate learning

Selected Publications

Westbrook CA, The Optimal Departmental Rota. Radiography Today (1992) 58:17

Westbrook CA, The MRI Qualification, Necessity or Nuisance. Radiography Today (1992) 61:19

Westbrook CA, MRI of the Breast. Radiography Today (1992) 58:15

Westbrook CA, MRI of Acoustic Neuroma - A Changing Picture? Radiography Today (1993) 59:13

Westbrook C., To MSc or not to MSc - that is the question? Synergy, January 1997

Westbrook C., Clinical Considerations in the practice of Body MRI, Radiology Now, 1998

Westbrook C., MRI the Future. Synergy February 1998

Kennedy S., Hadfield R., Westbrook C., Weeks D., Barlow D., Golding S., MRI scans in the relatives of women with endometriosis to determine familial risk, The Lancet, 1998

Westbrook C., Illustrated survival guide to imaging parameters in MRI, Journal of Diagnostic Radiography and Imaging, (1998) Volume 2: 61-67

Westbrook CA, Talbot JS What do MRI radiographers really know? European Journal of Radiography (2009) 10 1-9