XIX SYMPOSIUM NEURORADIOLOGICUM
The World Congress of Diagnostic & Therapeutic Neuroradiology
Bologna,
May 2009
The President
Prof. Marco Leonardi
Dear
Friends,
Neuroradiologists
all over the world
are invited to
Italy in Autumn
2010 to take part
in the XIX Symposium
Neuroradiologicum.
I
was entrusted with
the task of organising
this meeting four
years ago during
the XVII SNR chaired
by Luc Picard in
Paris. This will
be the most important
event in my career
and I intend to
devote all my energy
to organising it
as efficiently as
possible respecting
the principles and
the universalistic
spirit of the SNR
founders. Anton
Valavanis has generously
agreed to help me
as Vice President
and I am confident
in his support and
advice.
Ideally,
I would like everyone
to attend but plainly
our day-to-day
practice makes that
impossible. To
overcome this problem
I plan to prepare
a whole
series of materials:
printed matter,
proceedings, videos,
etc. to be made
available free
of charge to all
neuroradiologists
on request via
the
internet website
and on CD-Rom.
I
propose two main
topics: Interventional
Neuroradiology and
the neuroradiologist
as a clinician fully
responsible for
his/her patient,
and the new research
achievements of
Diagnostic Neuroradiology
in the study of
brain physiology.
Then we will analyse
the trends in neuroradiology
at the crossroads
of the neurological
sciences in terms
of ongoing revolutionary
acquisitions in
technology, research,
advances in neurosurgery,
neurology and radiology,
tackling the fundamental
issues of the end
of life and decisions
stemming from what
we call brain death.
We
shall also focus
on training neuroradiologists
of the future.
The cultural basis
and knowledge essential
for both diagnostic
and therapeutic
neuroradiological
practice are increasingly
vast and complex.
As individual neuroradiologists
can no longer master
the myriad aspects
of our discipline,
we need to decide
on the essential
foundations to
be shared by all
before choosing
to develop specialist
branches and how
this can be best
translated into
university neuroradiology
courses.
I
also plan to allot
the time for all
participants to
present their work
and discuss it with
colleagues. These
sessions will be
divided by topic
but I do not intend
to mention specific
subjects here. Ours
is a vast discipline
and I would like
to include every
aspect of our work.
For this reason,
please feel free
to let me have me
your proposals by
sending an e-mail
to my personal address:
marco.leonardi@symposiumneuroradiologicum.org
The
SNR Scientific
Committee will assess
your proposals and
allocate as many
as feasible for
oral presentations,
posters (if you
ask for) or even
lectures depending
on the type of
work involved. This
will be very time-consuming,
but the Symposium
is no ordinary
meeting where topics
are chosen solely
on the basis of
current interest
or originality.
This will count,
but it will be
very important for
colleagues to air
their views on our
work, outlining
their own experience
in broad areas
of the discipline
and thereby stimulate
lively broad-based
discussion. In
view of the time
constraints involved,
please let me have
your proposals for
the Symposium well
in advance: deadline
31st January 2010.
The Symposium will
be held in October
2010, 4-9, in Bologna.
In
addition, any comments
and general ideas
for the organization
of the Symposium
are welcome, especially
suggestions on the
major topics relating
to the future trends
in neuroradiology.
I
am relying on the
all-important support
of our traditional
sponsors that I
thank in advance
for the help I am
sure they will not
fail to offer what
will be the most
important reunion
of neuroradiologists
from all over the
world.
Thank
you all at the outset
for your attention
and your participation:
I hope to welcome
very many of you
to Italy in 2010!
Marco Leonardi
Direttore, Servizio di Neuroradiologia - Ospedale Bellaria -
Via
Altura 3 -
40139 Bologna,
Italy - Phone
+39.051.6225520
- Fax: +39.051.6225785
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Mobile:
+39.348.8714153 -
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