Diseases of the Brain, Head and Neck, Spine 2024-2027: Diagnostic Imaging (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783031506741)

Juerg Hodler has held the positions of Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland between 2010 to his retirement in 2022. He has also served as the Chief Medical Officer of the University Hospital in Zurich between 2011 and 2022. He has published 268 original papers, 64 other publications including review articles, 28 book chapters and four books, mostly in the field of musculoskeletal imaging, with an emphasis on joint imaging and the spine. He has served as a co-editor of the journal of Skeletal Radiology for nearly a decade. He has been actively involved in a number of committees of scientific societies, including the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the International Skeletal Society (ISS) the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the Swiss Society of Radiology (SGR-SSR). He currently serves as the President of the ISS. He has been the President of the Swiss Board's Examination in Radiology for 11 years. He has served as a Co-Director of the International Diagnostic Course in Davos since 2005.

Rahel A. Kubik-Huch is Director of the Institute of Radiology and the Department of Medical Services and a member of the executive board at the Kantonsspital Baden in Switzerland. She has a strong interest in female imaging with expertise in all imaging modalities and imaging-guided minimal invasive breast interventions. She was a longstanding Deputy Editor of European Radiology and a past President and Honorary Member of the executive board of the Swiss Society of Radiology. She is a course Co-Director of the International Diagnostic Course Davos (IDKD), organizer of the fundamentals in imaging course of the IDKD and a former organizer of the Advanced Breast and Pelvis Imaging Course of the ESMRMB where she has remained a member of the faculty. She has published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to several book chapters and has been an invited speaker in her area of expertise at a number of national and international symposia and meetings.

Justus Roos is the Director of the Department of Radiology at the Kantonsspital Luzern (LUKS) in Lucerne in Switzerland since 2015. Before assuming this position he held professorships at both Stanford and Duke Universities, with a current scientific association with Universities of Zurich and Lucerne. Dr. Roos is involved in students teaching associated with the Medical Master program in Lucerne which also includes innovative teaching methods such as a simulation program for liver biopsy. His research activities have consistently concentrated on chest and cardiovascular imaging. CT was the most important imaging method during his scientific career. However, he has also published in MR imaging and used advanced methods such as Xenon-ventilation MR and artificial intelligence. He is an experienced user of teleradiology, serving several regional hospitals in Switzerland.He has been a teacher at IDKD for several years, using innovative teaching methods with great success. Since 2022 he is a Director at IDKD and responsible for the new online version of IDKD, as well as for the chest and cardiovascular courses in Davos as well as abroad.