Savvas Andronikou (MBBCh, FCRad, FRCR, PhD (UCT), PhD(Wits)) has worked as a paediatric radiologist for over 20 years and is now an Attending Paediatric Radiologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a Full Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds the John Westgate Hope Endowed Chair and is Vice Chair for clinical research at CHOP radiology. He also holds honorary professorships at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He lists over 400 published items under his bibliography and has delivered more than 210 invited talks at over 100 different events nationally and internationally and has been an international visiting professor multiple times. In the United Kingdom he was the ‘Royal College of Radiologist Roentgen Ray Professor’ for 2017 and regional advisor for the Royal College of Radiologists in the Severn region. He also served two terms as President of the College of Radiologists of South Africa, founded the South African Society of Paediatric Imaging and the African Society of Paediatric Imaging, and was the first Outreach Chair of the World Federation of Paediatric Imaging. He now serves on the publication committee of the ESPR and the Thoracic Imaging Committee of the SPR. He also holds a position on SPR Research and Education Foundation Board of Directors. He is currently a member of good standing in 10 professional societies nationally and internationally, he has served as a reviewer for 10 scientific journals, was Chief Editor of the South African Journal of Radiology for several years and he continues to serve on the editorial board of Pediatric Radiology. He has mentored over 50 masters and 8 PhD students in multiple universities internationally. Savvas has received 15 awards including the Maurice Weinbren Award for research from the College of Radiologists of South Africa, the ‘Rector’s Award for outstanding research’ at the University of Stellenbosch, the ‘Dean’s Award’ at the University of the Witwatersrand, the DHN scholarship of the Radiological Society of North America, the Derek Harwood Nash scholarship from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Honorary Membership of the Society of Pediatric Radiology in 2013. He also was the first doctor employed as a radiologist by Medecins Sans Frontiers and he continues to volunteer as a tele-radiologist for the organisation.

Hospital address

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
19104
United States

Qualifications

• MBBCh - 1991
• FCRad (Diag) - 1998
• FRCR (Lond) - 2000
• PhD (UCT) - 2005
• PhD (Wits) - 2015

Contact

Professor Savvas Andronikou
Email: docsav@mweb.co.za