European Congress of Radiology

The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) is the largest European Congress of Radiology, which is held annually in early March in Vienna in Austria. More than 20,000 participants from 100 countries took part in this last session.

History

The ECR was founded in 1967 by radiologists Boris Rajewsky and Charles Marie Gros and initially held every four years at different locations. Organizational and financial circumstances and the establishment of a common European platform meant that under the leadership of Josef Lissner from Munich, a committee was established in 1985, which dealt exclusively with the Congress organization and its relations with the medical technology industry. The Congress intervals were intensified to two years, and one of the first regular conferences of the ECR Europe was bound with the Vienna location to map that location.

The late 1980s was a program committee consisting of over 120 radiologists from around the world, institutionalized, which in September 1991 the first "new" ECR could do under the presidency of Josef Lissner. Subsequently, a private office was set up and the legal association headquarters was erected in Vienna. The 2- year interval was from 1999 to an annual.

Effects

• The ECR has also to develop new Congress tools ( eg EPOSTM - Electronic Presentation Online System) contributed.
• The merger of the ECR with the European Association of Radiology (EAR ) in 2005, the European Society of Radiology was ( ESR), which has since then acted based in Vienna as representing the interests of radiology within the European Union.