Dr. Richard Graham

Professor Richard Graham is a Consultant Radiologist practicing general radiology with subspecialist expertise in diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal radiology, sports imaging and nuclear medicine. Richard regularly undertakes medicolegal instructions for radiology cases. He is Deputy Medical Director of the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and head of radiology training for the Severn region. Richard is a Visiting Professor in Health & Applied Sciences at the University of West of England, Bristol. He leads the nuclear medicine community in the UK as President of the British Nuclear Medicine Society. He is a council member (and past president) of the Radiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Richard studied at the Universities of Cambridge (graduating with first class honors) and Oxford.  He trained in radiology in Oxford and was awarded the Constance Thornton Fellowship in 2008 by the Royal College of Radiologists to undertake a visiting fellowship at Stanford University Medical Centre, California. He has undertaken training in leadership and management and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Richard is an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve where he has been Head of Medical Branch and Commanding Officer of HMS Flying Fox in Bristol. He has deployed twice as a Consultant Radiologist to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan.

Research and Teaching Interests

• 360 degree acquisition SPECT-CT
• Bone and joint imaging in nuclear medicinw
• PET-CT
• Leadership in healthcare

Current positions

• Consultant Radiologist at the Royal United Hospital
• Consultant Radiologist at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
• Deputy Medical Director of the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
• Visiting Professor, UWE Bristol
• Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Bristol
• Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Bath

Relevant qualifications

• MA
• BM BCh
• FRCR (UK)
• Post graduate diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
• CMgr FCMI
• FFLML

Membership of professional, national and regional bodies

• Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists
• Member of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists
• President of the British Nuclear Medicine SocietyUK delegate to the European Association of Nuclear Medicine
• Member of the NHS England Imaging Workforce Board