Alison qualified as a radiographer from Bristol School of Radiography in 1992 and completed her MR post graduate studies at City University, London in 1998. She started working in MR in 1996 and cardiac MR in 2004. She has worked in all areas of CMR and is currently the MR Clinical Lead at Poole Hospital, University Hospitals Dorset, U.K. Alison is extensively involved in CMR education nationally and internationally and was the technologist representative on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Cardiovascular MR from 2014 – 2017 and is still actively involved with SCMR. She is a Fellow of the SCMR and a visiting lecturer for the post graduate program at City University, London, U.K.