Internacionais
Eduardo Eyheremendy - Argentina
Eduardo Eyheremendy, MD, FSIR, is Chairman of Radiology at Hospital Alemán in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed his fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Hospital Nuestra Señora del Pino (Spain), holds European Board Certification in Interventional Radiology (EBIR), and earned his International Master's for Health Leadership from McGill University (Canada). Dr. Eyheremendy specializes in minimally invasive procedures, including vascular and nonvascular interventional oncology, vascular embolization and revascularization, spine interventions, and pain management. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has served as President of the Argentinean Society of Radiology and the Argentinean Collage of Interventional Radiology.
Prof. Dr. Philippe L. Pereira - Germany
Prof. Dr. Philippe L. Pereira
M.D., PhD., Professor of Radiology, FCIRSE, FESGAR, EBIR, EBIR-ES
SLK-Kliniken GmbH Heilbronn
Karl-Ruprecht-University of Heidelberg, Germany
Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany
Danube Private University, Krems, Austria
Prof. Pereira began his training in internal medicine at the University of Lille. He started as medical assistant in France in parallel to his post-doc formation in macromolecular biochemistry.
Prof. Pereira started in 1995 in the Department of Radiology at the University of Tübingen and completed his research program on “MR-guided interventions”. He was appointed as Professor of Radiology in 2001, became Deputy Chairman in 2004. Between 2008 and 2024, he was Head of the Dpt of Radiology at SLK-Clinics, Academic hospitals of the University of Heidelberg, and is now Advisor for the SLK Clinics and Cancer Center. He is also Professor affiliated to the University of Heidelberg and to the Private University of Krems.
Professor Pereira’s research interests focus on interventional radiology especially oncologic interventions. He was the first german interventional radiologist to perform a percutaneous ablation of lung cancer in 1996.
Prof. Pereira acted in the Executive Committee of the German Society of Interventional Radiology (DeGIR) for oncological guidelines and Certifications’processes within the German Cancer Society.
Internationally, he serves on the Executive Committee of CIRSE since 2011, as Chairman of the Rules committee, Chairman of the Standard-of-practice committee and as Chairman of the Research committee, as Treasurer and Vice-President in the Executive Board, and now as President of the Society since 2024.
After being President of IROS (Interventionell-Radiologisches Olbert Symposium) in 2018, Prof. Pereira was Deputy Chairman of the European Congress of Interventional Oncology (2020 and 2021) and Chairman 2022 and 2023.
Prof. Pereira received several awards including from ECR, WCIO, ECIO, RSNA and from the German Society of Radiolog). His research and clinical expertise have been published in more than 380 scientific publications including Radiology, CVIR, Investigative Radiology, JMRI, and more than 40 book chapters. He also takes a strong interest in biotechnology and medical engineering.
Daniel Waigl - Austria
Daniel Waigl
Daniel Waigl was born in Vienna, Austria. He holds a degree in Marketing and Sales from the University of Economics Vienna and has been involved in association and congress management since 1997. In 2004 he was appointed the Executive Director of CIRSE – the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe. A position that he has been enjoying ever since.
Since his appointment CIRSE has become the representative body for IR in Europe. The educational and scientific association aims to improve patient care through the support of teaching, science, research and clinical practice in the field of interventional radiology.
CIRSE has over 50 group member societies and 10,000 individual members from all over the world. CIRSE organizes around 20 congresses and courses annually. It publishes 3 peer-reviewed scientific journals and runs some of the largest and most comprehensive online education platforms in the field. Besides education, CIRSE’s main activities include the development and successful establishment of curricula, certification and accreditation initiatives, clinical research projects, standard setting and advocacy work.
In 2023, CIRSE launched the Vision for Interventional Radiology with a focus on clinical services and patient care, as well as therapies and treatment supporting the concept of a full-time interventional radiology clinical practice.
Dr. Bruno Odisio - EUA
Dr. Odisio é Professor e Co-Diretor de Pesquisa no Departamento de Radiologia Intervencionista na Universidade do Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Ele também exerce a função de um dos diretores médicos do Programa de Pesquisa em Terapia Oncológica Guiada por Imagem (IGCT). Sua principal área de atuação clínica e de pesquisa envolve o uso de diversas terapias locais minimamente invasivas para o tratamento e paliação de tumores hepáticos, com ênfase no uso de terapias ablativas percutâneas. Além disso, o laboratório do Dr. Odisio investiga o uso de novos métodos avançados de imagem para prever os desfechos de procedimentos minimamente invasivos, como quimioembolização e ablação hepática, assim como seu uso potencial em combinação com procedimentos cirúrgicos hepato-biliares.