Ann D. King

Ann D. King, MBChB, FRCR, MD is a Professor in the Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is one of the world's foremost authorities on imaging of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and other head and neck cancers. She has made transformative contributions to the MRI-based staging and radiotherapy planning of NPC, a malignancy with particularly high prevalence in Southeast Asia and southern China and strongly linked to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Professor King's research has defined the patterns of tumor spread in NPC including skull base invasion, perineural extension, and parapharyngeal spread detectable on MRI, fundamentally improving the accuracy of T-staging and reducing geographic misses during intensity-modulated radiotherapy. She has collaborated closely with radiation oncologists at Prince of Wales Hospital to integrate advanced MRI protocols into clinical practice, and has led prospective studies correlating imaging phenotypes with EBV DNA levels and survival outcomes. She has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and is an invited expert at UICC/AJCC NPC staging workshops.