Roger Bourne

Associate Professor Roger Bourne serves in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, specifically within the Sydney School of Health Sciences and the Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences. He obtained his BSc in 1983 and PhD in 1990 from the University of Queensland, with his doctoral thesis focusing on a 31P magnetic resonance study of cardiac bioenergetics. He further earned a Graduate Certificate in Education Studies from the University of Sydney in 2011. Bourne's career at the University of Sydney began as a Research Associate from 2000 to 2006, followed by positions including Senior Lecturer, leading to his current role as Associate Professor. He is the Course Director for the Master of Medical Imaging Science, contributes to team teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate medical physics curricula, and supervises PhD and Honours students. He is affiliated with the Medical Image Optimisation and Perception Group (MIOPeG).

Since 1999, Associate Professor Bourne's research has been focused on magnetic resonance methods for the diagnosis and management of cancer, particularly diffusion MRI of glandular tissue in relation to prostate and breast cancer. He founded and chairs the University of Sydney's Prostate Cancer Special Interest Group and co-chaired the organising committee of the 2018 Sydney Cancer Imaging Symposium. Key publications include 'Limitations and Prospects for Diffusion-Weighted MRI of the Prostate' (2016), 'Changes in Epithelium, Stroma, and Lumen Space Correlate More Strongly with Gleason Pattern and Are Stronger Predictors of Prostate ADC Changes than Cellularity Metrics' (2015), 'Validation of Prostate Tissue Composition by Using Hybrid Multidimensional MRI: Correlation with Histologic Findings' (2021), 'Histological Validation of MRI: A Review of Challenges in Registration of Imaging and Whole-Mount Histopathology' (2020), 'Multi-model sequential analysis of MRI data for microstructure prediction in heterogeneous tissue' (2023), and 'Prostate Cancers Invisible on Multiparametric MRI: Pathologic Features in Correlation with Whole-Mount Prostatectomy' (2023). Bourne has received the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Outstanding Teaching (2011) and the University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching, along with recognitions in the 2023 Educational Innovation Awards and 2025 Sydney School of Health Sciences Awards for curriculum design.

Professional Email: roger.bourne@sydney.edu.au