Education & Training
1973 – 1979 Medical School, University of Vienna, Austria
1979 – 1984 Internship – Mistelbach Hospital, Austria
1984 – 1989 Residency in Radiology, University of Vienna, School of Medicine
Vienna General Hospital
1989 – 1991 Fellowship, Department of Radiology,
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Professional Development
1991 – 1992
Staff member, Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital Vienna, Austria
1992 to present
Faculty member (Part time), Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
01/14/1993
Tenure, Associate Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria
1994 – 1996
Acting Director of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology,University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria
1996 to present
Full Professor, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital Vienna, Austria,
Current Positions:
Professor and Chairman, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Austria
Director, Medical Imaging Science Cluster, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Faculty Member (Part time), Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA
Official Government Positions:
Board Member, Vienna Health Council
Board Member, Austrian Health Council
International Society Functions:
Society Presidencies:
ISSSR (International Society of Strategic Studies in Radiology) - 2009-2011
European Society of Radiology - 2009/2010
European Congress of Radiology - 2006/2007
Fleischner Society - 2005/2006
European Society of Thoracic Imaging - 1999/2000
Honours and Awards (selected):
International Member, National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine), US National Academies
Member, Academia Europaea
Gold Medal, European Society of Radiology 2012
Radiology Editor’s Award for Distinction in Reviewing 1994
Hounsfield Award, Society of Computed Body Tomography 1991
Honorary Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Senologie 2014
Société Française des Radiologie 2011
Sociedad Argentina de Radiologia 2011
Iranian Society of Radiology 2009
Radiologic Society of North America 2007
Hungarian Society of Radiologists 2006
Named and Honorary lectureships (selected):
Robin C. Watson Memorial Lecture, MSKCC, Cornell University 2013
Keynote lecture in Honor of Gary Glazer, MD, ISSSR, Beijing 2013
Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology, RSNA Annual Meeting 2010
Max Perutz Memorial Lecture, Cambridge, UK, 2006
Reese Hartman Lecture, The Mayo Clinic, USA, 2006
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Lecture, Gleneagles, UK, 2005
John Evans Lecture, Cornell University, USA, 2002
Visiting Professorships (selected):
Houston Methodist Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston 2014
Stanford University 2009, 2004, 2003
University of Burlington 2007
Cornell University and NYU 2005
Mayo Clinic 2005
University of Cambridge 2004, 1996
Duke University 1999
Publications and Presentations:
170 Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals,
231 Abstracts and Posters presented at international Meetings;
15 Chapters in Books
2 Books
370 Invited Lectures