Rate My Professor Roger Bourne

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.