Apostolos Karantanas is a full Professor of Radiology and Chairman Department of Radiology-Medical School-University of Crete, Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging/Chairman Scientific Committee-Heraklion University Hospital, Affiliated Researcher in Computational BioMedicine Laboratory and Head of Advanced Hybrid Imaging Systems/Institute of Computer Science-Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), President of the "Hellenic College of Radiology", Member of the Sports Injuries Subcommittee/ESSR, and board member of the "Greek Atomic Energy Commission". He undertook musculoskeletal training on metabolic bone disorders at New York University Medical Center and on MR imaging MSK applications at Manchester Medical School/Manchester Royal Infirmary. He has been given more than 650 invited lectures in 44 countries and has published more than 315 papers in peer-reviewed journals (Google Scholar citations 8.500, h-index: 50, i10-index: 171). He is a regular faculty member at the European Congress of Radiology and Erasmus courses MSK MRI, ESOR, and ESSR.