Category: Press Release

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has made the decision to make its high-quality content on ESR Connect and Education on Demand free for all. This decision comes amidst a growing need for radiology to unite as a profession in order to tackle the great challenges that the world is currently facing. The services, which will include full access to quality e-learning content, will be available for the next four weeks. The ESR has worked as fast and efficiently as...

Addressing the ongoing developments and challenges for public health related to the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the European Society of Radiology (ESR) will be hosting a top-class online event on the disease on March 12, featuring Prof. Josef Penninger, a world-leading geneticist and immunologist.

Despite the postponement of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2020, the ESR remains fully committed to supporting the fight against COVID-19 through science and research. For this reason, the session on COVID-19 will...

Villepinte (France), February 19, 2020 — Guerbet, the global specialist in contrast media and solutions for diagnostic and interventional imaging, will attend ECR (European Congress of Radiology) 2020, from March 11^th to 15^th in Vienna (Austria). This year, healthcare professionals will be able to experience the Group's latest innovations, its patient pathway and its comprehensive educational program, at the Tech Gate Building near the Austria Center Vienna.

February 2020 - The European Society of Radiology (ESR) is pleased to announce the publication of an important joint statement with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) on lung cancer screening (LCS) in Europe. Endorsed by both societies, the paper contains a contemporary, non-systematic review of the literature and common practice in lung cancer screening in Europe and also refers to the important NELSON study results.

Intended to be an update of a past ESR-ERS working group white paper on lung...

Addressing the ongoing developments and challenges for public health related to the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the European Society of Radiology (ESR) will hold a special ‘trending topic session’ at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2020. The session will feature first-hand experts, and will be publicly available on-site and online. 

The trending topic session will feature experts from Wuhan, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich and Rome, who have first-hand experience in imaging and treating patients infected with COVID-19 sharing their...

The European Society of Radiology (ESR), represented by its President, Prof. Boris Brkljacic, participated in a series of successful meetings and events on the 10^th of December in Brussels to strengthen the position of medical imaging on the European Union (EU) health policy agenda.

In the afternoon, the ESR participated in the event entitled “Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan – Better access to cancer care in Europe?” hosted by EU40, a group of young Members of the European Parliament under...

December 2019 - A group of prominent European and North American members of the radiological community have collaborated to produce an important publication on the status of women in the field of radiology, highlighting positive developments as well as areas where greater progress is needed.

Published in European Radiology, the special report, ‘Women in Radiology: Gender diversity is not a metric – it is a tool for excellence’, reviews the current state of gender diversity in academic and...

Thursday, November 28, 2019 - The outcomes of the multicentre DENSE trial on breast cancer, which was conducted in The Netherlands and first presented at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2019, has now been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Presented by Prof. Carla H. van Gils at an ECR Clinical Trials in Radiology (CTiR) session, the results provide practical insights into the use of supplemental magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in screening for breast cancer, and...

The second Conference on Hybrid Imaging Live (CHILI 2.0), which took place on October 25, saw an increase in the number of people tuning in for the virtual meeting in comparison to last year’s debut meeting. A total of 4,064 people registered for CHILI 2.0 compared to 3,515 last year, representing an increase of 16 percent.

The conference, which was organised by the European Society of Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging (ESHI^MT) and the European Society of Radiology...

Brussels, 6 November 2019 – Under the auspices of the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Claudia Gamon, the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and Lung Cancer Europe (LuCE) have joined forces to organise an event at the European Parliament and publish a factsheet that aims to raise awareness of lung cancer and the need for increased visibility of the disease in European Union (EU) policies.

As November is lung cancer awareness month, and with...