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Gold Medallist
Peter R. Mueller
Peter Mueller completed his medical training at the University
of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. After that he was a resident in radiology
at Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of
Radiology, Boston, USA. In 1978 he started his interventional
career in the GI radiology section at Massachusetts General
Hospital. His mentor at that time was Joseph Ferrucci. Many of
the procedures in non-vascular radiology which are now considered
routine such as percutaneous biopsy, abscess drainage,
cholecystostomy, gastrostomy, biliary drainage, benign biliary
drainage and percutaneous ablation of liver and renal tumours
were either developed or further studied by the group of interventional
radiologists that worked in this division. In the 1970s,
80s and 90s, the combination of imaging and intervention was
just beginning and Prof. Mueller and his colleagues wrote
many papers and gave many courses in these areas. His primary
clinical and research interests are in interventional radiology,
especially in biliary intervention, abscess drainage and
percutaneous ablation of malignant tumours of the liver and
kidney.
Over the years, Prof. Mueller has been intimately involved with
novel techniques such as the Brown-Mueller T-Tack for use in
percutaneous gastrostomy and percutaneous gastro-jejunostomy
and the Dawson-Mueller drainage catheter for fluid
drainages. He has published well over 300 articles, several
books and editorships, and given over 15 “named” lectures on
interventional radiology. His Division of Abdominal Imaging
and Interventional Radiology at Massachusetts General
Hospital was one of the first in the United States to accept fellows
from Europe, many of whom have gone on to distinguished
careers in their homeland. These include the current
President of CIRSE, Michael J. Lee.
Dignitaries
Prof. Mueller has been on the editorial boards of many radiology
journals including Radiology, The American Journal of
Roentgenology, Clinical Radiology, and Cardiovascular and
Interventional Radiology. He is the past Editor-in-Chief of
Seminars in Interventional Radiology. He is the past President
of the Society of Hepato-Biliary Radiology, the New England
Roentgen Ray Society, and the Society of Abdominal
Radiology. He has received an Honorary Membership of the
European Society of Interventional Radiology and the
European Radiology Society. He has received the Gold Medal
from the British Interventional Radiology Society, and has
given the prestigious Dotter Lecture for the American Society
of Interventional Radiology.
CIRSE Opening Ceremony and Awards
peter R. Mueller will be awarded
Saturday, September 15
14:30-16:00
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