Simon Blease, MB BCh, FRCR

Simon Blease, MB BCh, FRCR, has worked in independent practice since 2012, delivering high-quality imaging support to the medical community in central London. He remains passionate about the integration of new technology to push forward the boundaries of musculoskeletal and spinal medicine.

His current projects include an initiative to introduce magnetic resonance spectroscopy of lumbar intervertebral disks into clinical practice. Dr Blease also is lead imaging investigator for Axis Spine Technologies, where he is pioneering innovations in spinal fusion.

Dr Blease trained in radiology in London and Bristol on secondment from the Royal Air Force, finishing his service career as the director of Radiology at RAF Hospital Wroughton.

In 1999, he joined Medtel International to become one of the UK's first full-time teleradiologists. Dr Blease was a founding member of the UK Association of Doctors in Sport. He was made a fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (Ireland) in 2004 and is a founding fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK).

• Musculoskeletal and spinal conditions

• Spinal pain

• MB BCh, Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff, 1982
• European Diploma in Musculoskeletal Radiology, 2011

Dr Blease has published many books, including:

• Magnetic Resonance in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine (2007)
• Diagnostic Imaging – Orthopaedics (2003)
• Multiple Choice Questions for Part 2 FRCR (1993)
• A to Z of MR Physics (1992)
• A Guide to the Clinical Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (1991)

His research publications include:

• MRI of the Thorax. Goddard P, Roobottom C, Blease S, et al, West of England Medical Journal, Vol 108/9, pp 29-42.
• MRI in Lymphoma. Goddard P, Troughton A, Cobby M, Case A, Murphy P, Blease S, Davies ER, Clinical MRI, Vol 1, No 4, pp 117-126.
• Residual Para-aortic Masses from Testicular Teratoma: The role of MRI. Blease S, Troughton A, Goddard P, Eckert H, Clinical MRI, Vol 2, No 1, pp 13-16.
• The Future of MRI ... a Bristol Perspective. Goddard P, Blease S, Troughton A, Clinical MRI, Vol 3, No 4, pp 149-152.
• MRI of the Thorax. Goddard P, Roobottom C, Blease S, et al, Clinical MRI, Vol 4, No 3, pp lll.
• An Appraisal of MR Sequences in Oncology. Goddard P, Al-Tai S, Herdman G, Price C, Betancourt C, Wakeley C, Kabala J, Blease S, Laue Te Neng, Vaidya M, Callaway M, Clinical MRI, Spring 1998, Vol 8, No 1.
• Testicular Tumour. Blease S, Troughton A, Eckert H, Goodman S, Goddard P, Clin Rad, November 1990, Vol 42, No 5, p 383.
• The Marrow in Sickness and in Health: A Magnetic Resonance lmaging Insight. Blease S, Cook P, Goddard P, BJR, 1991, Vol 64, Congress P42.
• Assessment of Extra-ocular Orbital Pathology Using MRI. Goddard P, Blease S, Case A, Cavanagh P, Cobby M, Waring J, BJR, 1991, Vol 64, Congress P42.
• Does Cranial Magnetic Resonance Support the Statistical Link Between Sinusitis and Multiple Sclerosis. Blease, Troughton, Goddard, Stanners, Bodley, BJR, 1991, Vol 64, Congress P62.
• MRI of the lntraocular Lesions Ultrasound and Clinical Correlations. Goddard P, Bloom P, Laidlow D, Cobby M, Blease S, RCR Annual Meeting Abstracts Book, 1991, p 176.
• MR Detection of Abdominal and Pelvic Lymph Node Metastasis. Kabala J, Goddard P, Blease S, Penry B, Persad R, Gillat D, Chadwick D, Clinical Radiology, 1992, Vol 45, pp 65-66.
• Audit of the Impact of On-site MRI on Radiological Investigations. Goddard P, Kabala J, Blease S, Radiology UK, 1996, abstract.
• MRI of the Wrist in Acute Injury. Blease S, Cave A, Bhulla A, Goddard P, Radiology UK, 1996, abstract.
• Musculoskeletal MRI in Obesity. Blease S. ESSR, 2006, EPOS.

• British Institute of Radiology Distinguished Service Medal, 2012
• RAF Travelling Fellowship, 1995, which included travelling to Squaw Valley, San Francisco, San Diego and Boston in the US

• Fellow, Royal College of Radiologists, 1988
• Fellowship of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Ireland, 2004
• Founding Fellow, Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine, UK, 2006
• Member, British Institute of Radiology
• Member, Radiological Society of North America
• Member, Royal Society of Medicine
• Member, British Medical Association
• Member, Magnetic Resonance Radiologists Association
• Member, Clinical Magnetic Resonance Society
• Founding member, UK Association of Doctors in Sport

• English