Breast Imaging Group Meeting 2027
March 4 - 7, 2027 | Tākina, Wellington
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15th General Breast Imaging Group Meeting
March 4 - 7, 2027 | Tākina, Wellington
A Message From The Convenors
We are delighted to invite you to join us in Wellington, New Zealand, for the 15th General Breast Imaging Meeting, taking place 4–7 March 2027 at Tākina, Wellington. We look forward to welcoming delegates from across Australasia and beyond to this leading educational event for the breast imaging community.
About the Meeting
The General Breast Imaging Meeting is a biennial conference and the premier gathering for breast imaging specialists in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing 350–400 attendees, the meeting attracts breast radiologists, mammographers, sonographers, breast physicians, breast care nurses, and members of the wider multidisciplinary breast care team, along with community advocates.
Program Highlights
The 2027 program will feature a clinically focused, highly interactive scientific agenda delivered by international and local faculty. We are pleased to confirm three keynote speakers:
- Dr Karin Dembrower, Capio St. Göran's Hospital, Sweden
- Professor Wendy DeMartini, Stanford University School of Medicine, Canopy Healthcare Imaging, Auckland
- A/Prof Fredrik Strand, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Sessions will explore contemporary topics in breast imaging, intervention, pathology, and screening, with an emphasis on practical learning and case based education.
Workshops
Delegates will also have the option to attend industry led workshops on Thursday prior to the main program, as well as during concurrent sessions from Friday to Sunday. These hands on sessions, organised by industry partners, provide valuable opportunities for practical skill development.
We hope you will join us for an engaging and informative meeting in beautiful Wellington. Join our mailing list to receive all the Meeting updates.
Dr Cara Odenthal / A/Prof Glen Lo
Co-Convenors
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Keynote Speakers
Dr Karin Dembrower
Senior Consultant in breast radiology, MD, PhD. Karin Dembrower works as a breast radiologist at Capio S:t Görans Hospital and she is also the head physician at the breast imaging department. She started her PhD studies in October 2017 at Karolinska Institutet and defended her thesis in April 2022. She won the Jan Grandéns prize for “Best thesis within cancer research 2022” at Karolinska Institutet. The title of the thesis is “Deep Learning in Breast Cancer Screening”. After analyzing the results from the first ever prospective ScreenTrustCAD trial she implemented AI in clinical practice at the breast imaging department at Capio S:t Görans Hospital in Stockholm. As from June 2023 an AI algorithm replaced one reader in a double reading setting for breast cancer screening. One year after implementation, the recall rates and the false positives decreased and the cancer detection rates increased. For this project, she also received the Ramasy Santé Innivation award “for our people”. Karin is also teaching radiographers at Karolinska Institutet as well as residents from the Stockholm county area. In 2025 she received the AI-prize at Karolinska institutet for outstanding performance within the AI-field. Karin has an ongoing passion for breast diagnostics and research for eventual breast cancer patients.
Capio St. Göran's Hospital
Sweden
Prof Wendy DeMartini
Dr. Wendy DeMartini is an internationally recognized leader in breast imaging clinical care, research and education. She is a Professor in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine and serves as a Breast Imaging Radiologist at Canopy Healthcare Imaging. At Stanford she held leadership roles including Vice-Chair for Clinical Faculty Affairs and Division Chief of Breast Imaging. Dr. DeMartini has more than 150 original research abstracts and publications. Her research interests include breast imaging utilization and outcomes and machine learning applied to breast imaging for triage and risk prediction. She lectures nationally and internationally on a spectrum of topics. She is Co-Director of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Education Center Breast MRI Course and Chair of the ACR BI-RADS Breast MRI Subcommittee. She was elected as a Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Fellow in 2009 and served as SBI President from 2017-2018. She has recently been designated as a Fellow in the ACR (FACR). She is also the past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Breast Imaging.
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Canopy Healthcare Imaging
A/Prof Fredrik Strand
Fredrik Strand is a Swedish radiologist and associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He is head of the research and education committee at the Swedish society of breast imaging. Fredrik is the principal investigator of two AI-based clinical trials: ScreenTrustCAD and ScreenTrustMRI. His research evolves around exploring AI on multimodal radiology images - for early detection, cancer characterization, treatment response and prognosis. Fredrik and his team curate high-quality datasets and radiologist annotations to develop new AI models for breast imaging, performing reader studies and external validations. He leads the Swedish multicenter VAI-B, Validation platform for AI in Breast imaging, which is a platform hosting images from various clinical centers linked to clinical outcomes with the mission to test external AI CAD models. Fredrik is engaged in two EU-funded projects, RadioVal and EUCAIM, as well as the EUCanScreen initiative where he is developing guidelines for safe implementation of AI in clinical practice. Fredrik's long-term aim is to explore the full power of AI on multi-modal radiology combined with human expertise to improve outcomes cancer patients.
Karolinska University Hospital
Sweden
Key Dates
May 1, 2026
Abstract Submissions Open
October 26, 2026
Abstract Submissions Close
August 4, 2026
Registration Open
November 22, 2026
Early Bird Registration Close
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