Press

After the success of ECR 2019’s ‘Women in Focus’ programme, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) will once again organise an exclusive ‘in Focus’ event at the European Congress of Radiology 2020. The programme, titled ‘Children in Focus’, will explore a broad range of health and social issues related specifically to children and young adults and will be dedicated in memoriam Prof. Helen M.L. Carty. It will be supported by the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR)...

As it seeks to expand its digital educational offerings, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) has seen another significant increase in its membership in recent months, with now over 112,000 members worldwide.

The growth in members comes at a time when the ESR is increasingly engaging with the imaging community using digital technology to provide more educational resources and content. This includes broadcasting a larger number of its events online, such as the recent European School of Radiology (ESOR) event...

Developments in medical imaging and the rapidly evolving doctor-patient relationship encourage the European Society of Radiology Patient Advisory Group (ESR-PAG), bringing together imaging professionals and patients, to continuously strive for an even higher level of patient engagement within medical imaging across Europe. To meet growing expectations on the side of patients and radiologists, the ESR-PAG and the ESR are delighted to release the new strategy ‘ESR-PAG: a Strategy for 2019 and Beyond’ that, building on the fruitful collaboration...

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.

Prof. Sestan is a Professor of Neuroscience, of Comparative Medicine, of Genetics and of Psychiatry at Yale University. He is a world-leading researcher of the...

• 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. This concept had already proven itself in the Digital Experience Hall...