Announcement Archive

_{May 2019}

The ESR Patient Advisory Group launches new strategy

The ESR Patient Advisory Group (ESR-PAG), bringing together patients and imaging professionals, is excited to launch a new strategy “ESR-PAG: a Strategy for 2019 and Beyond” to meet growing patient expectations in the rapidly changing field of medical imaging. The ESR-PAG is convinced that the deepened collaboration between the ESR and the patient community will further enhance patient-centredness in medical imaging.

_{May 2019}

ECR 2020 to feature keynote speech by world-leading neuroscientist, Nenad Sestan

Next year’s European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2020) will include a lecture by Prof. Nenad Sestan, the leading researcher of a Yale study, which successfully partially revived pig brains six hours after death. Prof. Sestan joins a line-up of many top scientists from across the world who will be speaking at Europe’s largest radiological meeting.

_{April 2019}

Siemens Healthineers and European Society of Radiology initiate partnership for digitalization

Collaboration on events for digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI)
Webinars and webcasts for information and discussion with radiologists
Blog posts from Siemens Healthineers offer insights into development

With their first course under the heading “Intelligence. Innovation. Imaging – The perfect vision of AI,” held in Barcelona on April 5-6, Siemens Healthineers and the European Society of Radiology launched a collaborative arrangement aimed at promoting discussion with the radiology community.

_{April 2019}

Friedrich Olbert (1920 – 2019)

The ESR is sad to report that Professor Friedrich Olbert, a pioneer of interventional radiology and recipient of the EAR’s Boris Rajewski medal in 2000, passed away on April 6, 2019, in his 99^th year of life.

Prof. Olbert was one of the founders of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) and acted as its first Meeting President in 1985. The joint annual meeting of the German, Austrian and Swiss IR societies is named in honour of his achievements: ‘Interventionell Radiologisches Olbert-Symposium (IROS)’.

Prof. Olbert was an expert on classical music, played the violin and loved to visit the Vienna concert halls and operas. He leaves behind his wife, Blanka, who throughout his career helped him with his numerous activities.

He will be dearly missed by his colleagues and friends.

_{April 2019}

Thousands tune in to discover more about the future of radiology at the ESR’s debut Artificial Intelligence event

With more than 5,800 registrations from 140 countries for the live streaming and 230 attendees onsite, the European Society of Radiology’s (ESR) event, ‘Intelligence. Innovation. Imaging – The perfect vision of AI’, highlighted the importance that artificial intelligence (AI) is playing for radiologists around the world.

_{March 2019}

ESR streams AI event of the year free of charge – Over 1,200 registrations in the first 24 hours

Registration is now open to participate from home in one of the most elite Artificial Intelligence (AI) radiology events of 2019. Professionals worldwide will be able to live stream the entire two-day AI event free of charge from any device. The course, titled ‘Intelligence. Innovation. Imaging - The Perfect Vision of AI’ will take place in Barcelona on April 5-6, and is certain to be one of the European Society of Radiology’s (ESR) & European School of Radiology’s (ESOR) biggest highlights of the year.

_{March 2019}

ESR participates in high-level lung cancer conference

On Monday 8 April, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) will participate in a high-level roundtable on lung cancer screening, organised by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) and officially endorsed by the ESR. Please find here the full article, event agenda and registration link.

_{March 2019}

Extraordinary Best of ECR programme to debut at the Brazilian Congress of Radiology (CBR 2019)

A fully packed Best of ECR programme has now been finalised for the 48^th Brazilian Congress of Radiology (CBR 2019) which takes place in Fortaleza on October 10-12, 2019. The programme, which will debut for the first time at CBR, will feature a diverse range of speakers bringing their lectures from the European Congress of Radiology to a new setting. It is the result of efforts by the European Society of Radiology (ESR) to bring the most innovative and groundbreaking elements of Europe’s largest radiological congress to a wider audience outside of Europe.

_{March 2019}

Celebrating International Women's Day - Looking back at the extraordinary success of Women in Focus at ECR 2019

March 8, 2019 – As the European Society of Radiology (ESR) celebrates International Women’s Day, it is time to reflect on one of the biggest success stories of ECR 2019, Women in Focus. This pioneer programme led by Prof. Hedvig Hricak, celebrated the role of women working in medicine and truly embodied the ECR’s theme this year, encouraging everyone to explore ‘The Bigger Picture’.

_{March 2019}

ECR 2019 turns out to be an absolute record breaker as it reaches 30,000+ attendance record!

Vienna, March 6, 2019 (ECR) - The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) closed on March 3 with an impressive growth in attendance, a remarkable achievement as the trend for big meetings seems to be heading in the opposite direction lately. The organisers, the European Society of Radiology (ESR), are proud to announce a total onsite participation of 23,239, including a record number of 14,602 professional delegates,...