Manuel Escobar

Manuel Escobar was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1966. He received the M.D. degree in medicine from the Vall d’Hebron Unit, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 1992. He was a Resident in radiology at Hospital Son Dureta, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from 1993 to 1996. From 1997 to 2007, he was a member of the Radiology Staff at the Hospital de Calella, Barcelona. From 2007 to 2014, he was the Chief of the Radiology Department, Centro Medico Teknon, Barcelona. In 2015, he was appointed as the Clinical Director of the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Department, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona. His research interests include the development and application of artificial intelligence in medical images, especially in chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT), prostate and liver United States (US) & magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and thyroid and breast ultrasound, and the development of radiomics. Dr. Escobar has been the Vice-President of the Catalan Radiological Society since 2016.