SOCIETY 377

SOCIETY
IRENE LANG, M.D., professor
Specialisation and affiliation: Interventional
cardiologist, Professor of vascular biology,
internist and interventional cardiologist at the
department of cardiology, Medical University of
Vienna, Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Vienna.
International medical training: Clinical research,
department of pulmonary and critical
care medicine, University of California San
Diego Medical Center, research associate,
vascular biology, Scripps Research Institute, La
Jolla, CA, USA.
Area of expertise: Myocardial ischemia and
revascularization, pulmonary hypertension.
MICHAEL ROGY, M.D., professor
Specialisation and affiliation: General
surgeon, former head of the Barmherzige
Brüder hospital, Vienna, and St. Veit an der
Glan hospital, Carynthia.
International medical training: Memorial Sloan
Kettering cancer center, Cornell University, New
York, NY, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA and St. Mark’s
hospital, UK.
Area of expertise: Open and minimally
invasive general surgery.
FLORIAN WOLF, M.D., professor
Specialisation and affiliation: Interventional
radiologist, vice director of the division of
cardiovascular and interventional radiology at
the Medical University of Vienna, Allgemeines
Krankenhaus, Vienna.
International medical training: Vascular institute,
Aarau, canton hospital, Winterthur, Switzerland,
Ospedale Santa Croce, Cuneo, Italy.
Area of expertise: Radiological interventional
treatment of vascular disease, interventional
oncology, e.g. embolization of tumors, also
treatment of uterine fibroids and prostate
hypertrophy.
HEINZ LUDWIG, M.D., professor
Specialisation and affiliation: Haematooncologist,
professor of internal medicine
and haemato-oncology, director of the
Wilhelminen cancer research institute at
the department of medicine, center for
oncology and haematology, Vienna.
International medical training and functions:
Fred Hutchinson cancer center, Seattle, WA,
USA, with professor Thomas, a Nobel Prize
awardee, former president of the European
society of medical oncology, board member
of the American society of oncology.
Area of expertise: All aspects of oncology,
broad spectrum of solid tumors and
haematological malignancies.
WALTER SARINGER, M.D., professor
Specialisation and affiliation: Neurosurgeon,
professor at the department of neurosurgery,
Medical University of Vienna, Allgemeines
Krankenhaus, Vienna.
International medical training: University
hospitals of Zurich, Switzerland, and Pittsburgh,
PA, USA.
Area of expertise: Diseases of the spine,
brain and skull base.
NIKLAS ZOJER, M.D., professor
Specialisation and affiliation: Haematooncologist,
internal medicine, haematology
and oncology, senior physician at the
1 st medical department, center for oncology
and haematology and palliative care,
Wilhelminenspital, Vienna.
International medical training: Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, MN, Memorial Sloan Kettering
cancer center, New York, NY., USA, University
of Southampton, UK.
Area of expertise: Haematology and oncology,
multiple myeloma, including high dose therapy
and autologous stem cell transplantation.
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