Senior Leadership
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CIRSE President
“CIRSE will work to improve access to IR by enhancing partnerships with physicians, researchers, and industry members, ensuring that the breakthroughs we achieve are translated into tangible improvements in patient care.”
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Vice-President
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.”
Mission
The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Educators (CIRSE) is a non-profit making, educational and scientific association aiming to improve patient care through the support of teaching, science, research and clinical practice in the field of cardiovascular and interventional radiology.
CIRSE’s mission is to provide continuing education and training for its members, as well as other physicians and scientists with an active personal involvement and interest in interventional radiology and to promote the exchange of ideas and information for the further definition of the role, direction and goals of cardiovascular and interventional radiology as a subspecialty of radiology. CIRSE aims to improve ethical, technical and material conditions in cardiovascular and interventional radiology to enhance patient care.
CIRSE is governed by the Executive Board and has its registered office in Vienna.
Interventional radiology emerged in 1964, when Charles Dotter defied sceptics and insisted that angiography, until then a purely diagnostic tool, could be used to actively treat patients. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, as it would later be called, was born.
Dotter’s revolutionary concept of “catheter therapy” soon sparked the development of other minimally invasive tools and techniques.
