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November 14, 2024 – The International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services is proud to announce that the University Hospital of Strasbourg in France is the first facility to receive the prestigious Centre of Excellence status. To commemorate this landmark achievement, we spoke with Prof. Afshin Gangi and his team.
November 5, 2024 – CIRSE 2025 SPC Chairperson Prof. Gerard O’Sullivan and Deputy Chairperson Prof. Militiadis Krokidis spoke to us about their motivations and plans for next year’s CIRSE Annual Congress.
October 29, 2024 – CIRSE’s educational portfolio flourished throughout 2024. Read on to make sure you are aware of everything that you have access to from 2024 and take a first look at what’s on deck for the coming year!
October 23, 2024 – Each year, CIRSE highlights superlative work with Best Scientific Paper Award and the Magna Cum Laude Poster Award. This year’s winners spoke with us to share their motivations and background behind their outstanding contributions to CIRSE 2024.
October 16, 2024 – In his inaugural address as CIRSE President, Prof. Philippe L. Pereira expresses his profound honour in leading the global scientific society for interventional radiology and minimally invasive image-guided therapies and gives a preview of what he hopes to accomplish during his presidency.
October 8, 2024 – Societies from nations worldwide convened to discuss the international status of IR during the Global IR Summit at CIRSE 2024.
October 2, 2024 – The CIRSE Annual Congress is the premier stage for the IR community to share and discuss new and upcoming research in the field of interventional radiology. CIRSE 2024 included two FIRST@CIRSE sessions covering the latest data from new and ongoing trials and several hot topic symposia which focused on some of the most note-worthy issues of the moment.
September 25, 2024 – We’ve just wrapped up CIRSE 2024, the world’s largest and most comprehensive congress on interventional radiology. Take a look back over the meeting in links and photos!
September 14, 2024 – By partnering on a clinical trial with Immunophotonics, Inc. on their lead clinical asset IP-001, CIRSE is hoping to help address the major unmet medical issues of tumor recurrence following tumor ablation.
September 10, 2024 – This year’s CIRSE Gold Medallist, Prof. Francisco Cesar Carnevale, shared with us in his own words his personal path to IR and the development of PAE as a mainstay in the pantheon of IR treatments.
August 27, 2024 – Dr. Jurgen Runge from Utrecht/NL, represented CIRSE at the 2024 Outreach programme in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He wrote to us to share about his experiences.
August 16, 2024 – To celebrate the ETF reaching gender parity this year, we spoke to ETF Subcommittee members Dr. Laetitia Saccenti, Dr. Greicy Heymann, Dr. Inês Conde Vasco, and Dr. Ornella Moschovaki-Zeiger to hear their personal experiences as young women in IR.
August 2, 2024 – In the rapidly evolving field of IR, maintaining a leading position among academic journals is no small feat. CVIR has consistently proven its prominence as a cornerstone in the dissemination of groundbreaking research and clinical advancements. CVIR Editor-in-Chief Prof. Klaus Hausegger reflected with us on the Journal’s accomplishments over the past years.
July 31, 2024 – CALCIO is a prospective, observational cohort study that is collecting real-world data on the use of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) with the Shockwave Medical IVL system (Shockwave Medical, Inc.) to disrupt vascular calcifications in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI).
July 25, 2024 – The CIRSE Fellowship Grant Programme helps members fund an educational one-month stay abroad at a European centre of excellence. Dr. Ákos Bérczi wrote to us to share his experiences with the IR department at St George’s Hospital in London, England.
June 18, 2024 – In collaboration with the interventional radiology section of the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM), the European Board of Interventional Radiology will be offered in Italian for the first time on October 24, 2024. The introduction of the EBIR exam in Italian is an important step towards greater inclusivity in medical certification.
July 11, 2024 – On the eve of ET 2024, leaders of interventional radiology societies from across Europe met in Vienna for CIRSE’s first IR Leadership Meeting. This meeting included interactive discussions and breakout sessions on the current status and set-up of interventional radiology in Europe.
July 4, 2024 – The INTERACT-EUROPE 100 initiative is recruiting 100 cancer centres across Europe to take part in an interdisciplinary training programme over the next three years. Dr. Franco Orsi wrote to us to tell us about the background of the programme and why it is imperative that centres with developed interventional oncology practices take part.
June 27, 2024 – CVIR Endovascular will offer a Young Investigator Award again this year to support young IRs in their research. We spoke to Prof. Warren Clements, who won the award in 2023, for his thoughts on what he feels stood out about his work, the challenges that young researchers face, and his words of encouragement for this year’s applicants.
June 18, 2024 – Each year, the European Conference on Embolotherapy confers awards to physicians who stand out from the crowd. Read on to hear from ET 2024’s Best Scientific Paper Award winner and from the Magna Cum Laude Poster Award winner!
June 12, 2024 – This year’s European Conference on Embolotherapy brought together expert faculty members and practitioners from around the world for four days of exciting lectures and productive discussions throughout innovative session formats. Look back at ET 2024 in pictures!
June 5, 2024 – Each year, ECIO hosts several sessions and lectures that emphasize the vital part that ongoing research and trials play in the future of interventional oncology. Read on to review these innovative sessions from ECIO 2024!
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