Each year the Andreas Gruentzig Lecture and the Josef Roesch Lecture are given by scientists whose contributions to IR, the development of interventional radiology, and CIRSE are widely recognized.
September 9-13 | Copenhagen, Denmark
building better care
September 9-13 | Copenhagen, Denmark
building better care
September 9-13 | Copenhagen, Denmark
September 9-13 | Copenhagen, Denmark
September 9-13 | Copenhagen, Denmark
building better care
Honorary lectures
Josef Rösch Lecturer 2023 | Yasuaki Arai
Honoring the late German radiology legend Andreas Gruentzig, this eponymous lecture has been given by some of IR’s most outstanding representatives upon the invitation from the CIRSE Executive Committee.
Josef Roesch Lecture
Let’s jump out of the box of fixed concepts!
Tuesday, September 12 at 14:30
Josef Roesch Lecture
Let’s jump out of the box of fixed concepts!
Tuesday, September 12 at 14:30
Josef Roesch Lecture
Let’s jump out of the box of fixed concepts!
Tuesday, September 12 at 14:30
Josef Roesch Lecture
Let’s jump out of the box of fixed concepts!
Tuesday, September 12 at 14:30
Dr. Yasuaki Arai received his medical degree at Jikei University School of Medicine and his doctorate in medical science at Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medicine. After 5 years of training at Tokyo Medical Center, he worked in the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Aichi Cancer Center. After 7 years as Department Chair, he moved to the National Cancer Center as Department Chair of Diagnostic Radiology. He also served as the Director of the National Cancer Center Hospital from 2012-2016, and as the President of the Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology (JSIR) from 2014-2017.
Dr. Arai has developed several new devices such as an implantable port system, an angio-CT system, a tip-deflecting microcatheter, as well as new techniques such as percutaneous catheter placement via the left subclavian artery with a side-holed catheter fixed to the gastroduodenal artery for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC), trans-jugular trans-hepatic peritoneo-venous shunt catheter placement for intractable ascites, the creation of an extra-anatomical bypass for occluded canal organs, and new regimens of HAIC such as a high weekly dose of 5FU and FEM (5FU, Epirubicin and Mitomicin-C). Dr. Arai is also the originator of the Japanese Interventional Radiology in Oncology Study Group (JIVROSG) which conducts over 30 clinical studies in the field of interventional oncology.
Dr. Arai has published more than 200 scientific papers in major journals and has been an associate editor of several leading international journals, including the Journal of Vascular & Interventional Radiology (JVIR) and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR). He has served as a consultant on medical devices for various Japanese government agencies. Dr. Arai has given lectures related to interventional radiology and clinical trials worldwide and has greatly contributed to building bridges between countries. His lectures about the mechanism of conventional TACE, the importance of evidence, and the required determination to overcome tough cases have greatly influenced young interventional radiologists all over the world.
Dr. Arai has received many awards at international IR congresses such as GEST in 2010 (Annual Lecture), ECIO in 2015 (Honorary Lecture), TSR in 2015 (International Honorary Member), CIRSE in 2017 (Distinguished Fellow), CCI in 2018 (International Honorary Member), APSCVIR in 2021 (Gold Medal), etc.
Since his retirement from the National Cancer Center in 2018, Dr. Arai has continued to work as a guest researcher for the National Cancer Center, a guest professor at Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine and Saitama Medical University, a clinical professor of St. Marianna University of Medicine and as a chief doctor at Uonuma City Koide Hospital.
Dr. Arai is father to a son and two daughters. In his free time, he enjoys mountain climbing and is particularly fond of the Himalayan mountains. He plays the base, the keyboard and sings in a Beatles tribute and blues rock band.
Dr. Arai has been fully enjoying his life, not only in the field of interventional radiology, but also spreading happiness.
Andreas Grüntzing Lecturer 2023 | Raman Uberoi
Since its introduction in 2003, the Josef Roesch Lecture has been given by a number of prominent interventional radiologists who have taken this opportunity to reflect on the statues of interventional radiology and its various treatments.
Andreas Gruentzig Lecture
Interventional radiology: the next generation
Monday, September 11 at 14:30
Andreas Gruentzig Lecture
Interventional radiology: the next generation
Monday, September 11 at 14:30
Andreas Gruentzig Lecture
Interventional radiology: the next generation
Monday, September 11 at 14:30
Andreas Gruentzig Lecture
Interventional radiology: the next generation
Monday, September 11 at 14:30
Raman Uberoi is a consultant interventional radiologist at the John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1985 and has been working as an interventional consultant for over 26 years. He was the clinical lead and clinical director in the Oxford University Hospitals and helped develop several interventional services including endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms (EVAR) comprising the complex fenestrated and arch branch stent grafting programs, gastro-intestinal stenting, fibroid embolization, pulmonary artery thrombolysis, distal venous arterialisations, and pelvic congestion syndrome.
Dr. Uberoi is passionate about improving outcomes and quality of care by making IR a more clinically focussed specialty through research and publication of quality standards. He has authored over 170 articles in scientific journals as well a national and international standards guidance for the BSIR, Royal College of Radiologists, CIRSE, and NICE. He continues to work as deputy editor for CVIR and senior editor for Clinical Radiology and the British Journal of Radiology.
Dr. Uberoi has held many national and international leadership posts including being the chair of many BSIR committee’s and President of the BSIR. He was elected to treasurer and president of the radiology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, for the Royal College of Radiologist’s chair of the regional leads, ISAS Accreditation Board, Professional Standards Board, and faculty boards. He currently is the medical director of professional practice. For CIRSE, Dr. Uberoi has served as a member and Chairperson of the Standards of Practice Committee, the local host of the CIRSE 2012 congress, on its Radiation Protection Task Force, member of the Foundation ESIR Programme Committee, member of the Research Board, , Chair of the Membership and Rules Committee and twice chair of the Curriculum Review Taskforce. One of Dr. Uberoi’s biggest achievements has been the development and evolution of the EBIR through many roles for over 12 years including as Chairperson of the EBIR Council.
Dr. Uberoi has been awarded honorary membership by the IRSA, and has received the Irish Interventional Society Medal and Graham Plant Professorship awarded jointly by the RCR and BSIR, but his proudest achievements are his 34-year marriage to Susan Uberoi and his two sons Adam and Jamie.