Take note! Instead of the usual Friday to Tuesday schedule, the European Congress of Radiology 2010 will run from Thursday, March 4 to Monday, March 8.

Online registration is already available for individuals and groups via the ESR website

The ESR Travel Service will be online from October 1, offering the usual wide selection of hotels for ECR 2010, from the most luxurious suites to cosy, unpretentious rooms, all accessible via the easy-to-use online tool.

And this year the service opens with a fantastic new promotion: ECR For €99! To take advantage of this amazing offer, visit the MyUserArea from 1 October to 1 November and click on ‘MyHotel’.
 
The ESR Travel Service is your gateway to Vienna's hotels!

ECR will again continue its highly successful Invest in the Youth Programme for the 7^th time at next year's meeting. This offer is available only for members of the ESR for the year 2009 on a first-come, first-served basis. The programme grants accepted applicants free registration for the whole conference, four nights' hotel accommodation (the dates March 4–8, 2010 are fixed by the ESR Office and are not changeable) and free public transport for the duration of the congress.

Online application will be open from November 1, 2009 until all places are reserved.

Be part of the ESR’s meeting on Management in Radiology!

Taking place in Riga/LV from September 30 to October 2, the meeting will focus on topics like ‘How to manage imaging in a recession’ and ‘Making imaging IT relevant’ and is therefore absolutely up to date with current developments.

To see the MIR final programme, please visit the MIR website.

Oncologic Imaging Scholarship in USA
Apply Now! 

ESOR offers a three-month scholarship on oncologic imaging in partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC), New York, in the first half of 2010.

The application deadline is September 30, 2009.

GALEN Advanced Course
Cardiac Cross-Sectional Imaging
November 6-7, 2009
Rotterdam, Netherlands

This course focuses on recent advances in cardiac cross-sectional imaging and aims to teach the most important findings in diseases of the coronary arteries, pulmonary arteries, myocardium and heart valves.

In partnership with GE Healthcare.

Clinical fMRI - Theory and Practice
Thessaloniki/GR, October 15-17
Get insight into present methodology and clinical applications via a mixture of lectures and small group exercises.

Advanced MR Imaging of the Chest - NEW!
Heidelberg/DE, October 29-31
Receive an overview of current MRI strategies such as morphological and functional imaging for the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases as well as pulmonary and mediastinal vascular diseases and congenital anomalies.

Advanced Head & Neck MR Imaging
Alicante/ES, November 5-7
Expand your knowledge of current MR imaging techniques for the diagnosis of head and neck lesions.

EIBIR would like to cordially invite you to the first edition of the EIBIR Winter School, taking place from January 17-22, 2010 in Viladrau, Spain with a world-class faculty of experts.

The main objective of the EIBIR Winter School is to support the interdisciplinary training of technical and clinical PhD students. In this first edition cardiovascular and oncologic diseases will be addressed.

The ESR is closely monitoring EU legislation and EU affairs that have the potential to impact on medical imaging, and has started to build relations with relevant EU institutions. The aim is to have ESR acknowledged by EU institutions as a major stakeholder in EU health policies.

Please click here for an overview of current European issues concerning the radiology profession and to find out more about the ESR’s involvement.

ESGAR 2010
June 2 – 5, Dresden, Germany

Abstract submission is open now. The ESGAR Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of scientific and educational presentations for ESGAR 2010. Please click here to submit your abstracts. The submission deadline is December 7, 2009.

The preliminary programme, containing the educational programme and including learning objectives, is available to download here. If you wish to receive a printed copy, please send an email to office@esgar.org.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009

ESGAR Liver Imaging Workshop
November 5 – 7, 2009, Antwerp, Belgium

For registration please visit the ESGAR website