CIR, Chicago and the RSNA
Yesterday and Today

The history of the CIR has been intimately connected to the city of Chicago and the RSNA. In fact, it was during the 5th International Congress of Radiology, celebrated in Chicago in 1937, when Dr. José A Saralegui of Argentina summoned a group of radiologists from several American countries, who agreed to participate in the first Inter American Radiology Congress in Buenos Aires in 1943 and who three years later founded the CIR.

Chicago became the city of the great annual meeting to bring radiologists up to date during the Annual Meeting of the RSNA. It has also become renowned as the most important international meeting point, where groups and societies meet and elaborate their different plans for the development of our speciality.  

Every year in Chicago, the Board of Directors and the General Assembly of the CIR, consisting today of 25 associations, including RSNA, hold official working sessions and attend the meetings of different committees, as well as the activities of several International Radiology institutions. This is where many programs and educational activities  are originated. There is no doubt that the RSNA has had an enormous influence in the progress of radiology .

CIR, Chicago an the RSNA are connected for lifelong learning.

 Today, like yesterday, we wait for you in Chicago !

More Information about the CIR Congress Program

The organizational and scientific coordination that has been established between the two societies -SERAM and CIR – will provide us with an extraordinary opportunity to learn  and improve the human and scientific links of radiology between Europe and America.  

During the Congress we will be able to attend the Monographic Course whose topic this year is DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING IN INFECTION, the reading of Closed Cases Session, as well as the activities organized by the members of the committee, which will be structured in the Continuing Education Sessions, Updating Course, Scientific Debate, Practice Sessions and Oral Presentation of Scientific Papers.

 On the first day of the Congress the Opening and Welcoming Session will take place, and on the last day the Closing Session as well as the Award Session and the Society’s General Assembly.

Each day  we will have the opportunity to attend Ultrasound Workshops which will be carried out as practical sessions  in rooms with limited capacity, so it will be necessary to enroll in the desired workshop when you register for the congress.  

Given the impact of Information and Communication Technology in the present world of radiology we have considered it pertinent to continue with the Computer Room activities.  

We will also have the opportunity to attend the Pre-Congress Course which will take place on Thursday, May 25. Changes that are taking place in Cardiac Imaging and the role of the radiologist in the study of the heart deserved to be the topic of this educational day in our National Congress.  

The Technical Exhibition Area will allow us to get acquainted with technological innovations and to exchange opinions with other radiologists and business professionals about the issues that have such an important impact on our field.

 The congress website will be the way  to keep in touch. All the activities will take place online: enrollment, registration and abstracts . The accepted scientific papers will be placed online in a new format that we hope will be useful and practical for everyone.  

We would like to have a Congress that, with everyone’s participation, we will be able to remember scientifically, professionally and personally with pride and satisfaction.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Miguel E. Stoopen
President of the Inter American College of Radiology (CIR) and President of the Organizing Committee of the XXIII Inter American  Congress  of Radiology.

Dr. Lluís Donoso Bach
President of SERAM and President of the Organizing Committee of the XXVIII Congress of SERAM .

Dra. Rafaela Soler Fernández
President of the Scientific Committee of the XXVIII Congress of SERAM

Dr. Francisco A. Quiroz y Ferrari
President of the Scientific Committee of the XXIII Inter American Congress of Radiology.

RSNA 2005
Connecting for Lifelong Learning

91st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting
November 27-December 2
Mc Cormick Place-Chicago 

Register Now !

www.rsna.org
 

CIR Authors

Have you published a book recently ?
Send the information and a picture of the book cover to the CIR office

cir.admin@servimed.com.mx
We will be glad to announce it in this section!

------------ Book of the Month -----------

SPAIN
Magnetic Resonance in Biliopancreatic Pathology

Dr. Luis Ros Mendoza
 

Editor
 Luis Ros Mendoza
lros@wanadoo.es
 

Courses and Conferences with CIR Visiting Professors

National Bolivian Congress of Radiology.
November 17 - 19, 2005 in La Paz, Bolivia. Organized by the Bolivian Radiological Society. Miriam López, MD, President.
Information:  ana_miriam_lopez@bolivia.com

 

Previous Courses in 2005

Tucumán, Argentina, May 2005. San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2005. Cuenca, Ecuador, August 2005, Panama Oct 2005

Foundation of the Central American Federation of Radiology and Imaging
(FCRI)

On October 12, 2005, Hispanic Heritage day, in the city of Panama during the XXV Central American Congress of Radiology, the countries of Central America held a working meeting in which they went over the first draft of the statute and unanimously chose as their first President Dr. Faylan Esquivel Solis of Costa Rica.  At the end of the meeting they announced two decisions: One: the foundation of the FCRI ,  Two:  : To meet within the first trimester of 2006 for the final revision and approval of the statute.

The witnesses of the act were doctors Francisco Arredondo, President of the ISR, Miguel E. Stoopen, President of CIR and Enrique Mainero, member of the International Committee of CIR.        

Meetings in CIR Countries

XXXIV Brazilian Congress of Radiology
November 12 – 14, 2005 at the Ulyses Guimaraes Convention Center in Brasilia, Brazil, Organized by the Brazilian College of Radiology.  Information and registration.  www.cbr.org.br. 10 Free international registrations for CIR members

*NOTE. Free international registrations for the CIR: The courses announced in this section give registrations to foreign radiologists or residents that do not live in the country where the course is held.  In order to be eligible for this benefit, those interested must be CIR members and personally request the free registration by e-mail addressed to the CIR administrative office  cir.admin@servimed.com.mx .Only the registration is free.

400th Anniversary of Don Quijote

 Outstanding collection of figures of the celebrated knight of La Mancha at the CIR offices!

Few were aware of it, but Dr. Jorge Bisteni Bustani, Director of B.P. Servimed and Manager of CIR, has amassed through the years an outstanding collection of figures representing Don Quijote de la Mancha, which are exhibited in cabinets, walls and shelves at his office in Mexico City.  

Sculptures; porcelain, clay and metal figures; carvings on wood and stone, oil paintings and watercolors  compose a noteworthy and well-presented exhibit that is worth taking a look at.  

The repertoire of this singular collection inspired by Cervantes currently consists of 202 pieces and is doubltess the most important in Mexico and perhaps in America. The members of CIR who wish to see it can contact Dr. Bisteni directly at the CIR office: cir.admin@servimed.com.mx 

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