Dr. Celso Matos ( President Elect )

Dr. Celso Matos

Celso Matos studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Brussels, Belgium and obtained his Medical Degree Magna Cum Laude in 1980. After a fellowship in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the University of Brussels, he started his fellowship in Radiology at the department of Radiology at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium in 1983.

As a board certified radiologist he joined the faculty in this department and led the MR imaging division since 1990. He became Professor of Clinical Radiology in 2001 at Erasme University Hospital. In late 2015 Celso Matos moved to Lisbon to start his current position as Head of the Imaging department at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown and co Director of Champalimaud Research for clinical investigation. 

Celso Matos has been President of the ESGAR (European Society for Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Radiology). 
As a radiologist he contributes to the imaging programme of several annual meetings and regularly co-organises radiological-clinical educational events.

Celso Matos’ main areas of clinical and research interest are abdominal and oncologic imaging. His main focus is multidisciplinary research in pancreatic cancer and related disorders.
Celso Matos has been part of the Abdominal Section of the European Radiology Editorial Board since 2014 and has been appointed Associate Editor of Radiology in November 2016.He received the European School of Radiology Best teacher Award in 2014.