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10<br />

Dignitaries<br />

Distinguished Fellow<br />

Götz M. Richter<br />

A native of Stuttgart, Germany, Goetz Richter went to medical<br />

school in Freiburg, where he also completed his residency in<br />

both general pathology and radiology. In 1988, he joined the<br />

Department of Radiology at Heidelberg University, where he<br />

became a professor in 1998. From 1993-2008, Prof. Richter<br />

served as vice-chairman of the Department of Diagnostic<br />

Radiology at Heidelberg University. As of 2009, he has been<br />

Head of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional<br />

Radiology at the Klinikum Stuttgart.<br />

Prof. Richter has also worked extensively abroad, having held a<br />

visiting professorship at the Department of Radiology at the<br />

University of San Antonio in 1988 and 1989, as well as having<br />

led grand rounds at the Beth Israel Hospital of the Harvard<br />

Medical School in 1993 and the University of San Antonio in<br />

1996. He has written 207 publications, 1 book and<br />

51 chapters in several books on Interventional Radiology.<br />

Prof. Richter has pioneered numerous procedures, introducing<br />

capillary embolization in renal tumours (1984), placing the first<br />

iliac stent in man (1987) and the first renal stent in man (1988),<br />

both in Freiburg, as well as the first TIPSS in man (1988) in the<br />

same city. Prof. Richter also performed the first EVAR in Europe<br />

at Heidelberg University in 1993. From 1990-1995, he conducted<br />

the Clinical Embosphere Pilot Study on UFE in Germany.<br />

From very early on in his career, Prof. Richter has been a dedicated<br />

CI<strong>RSE</strong> member, joining during his residency in 1986,<br />

becoming a Fellow in 1990 and serving in various positions<br />

over the years. Prof. Richter has also headed the German<br />

Society of Interventional Radiology (DeGIR).<br />

Between 1994 and 2000 Prof. Richter served as the congress<br />

president for the five International Heidelberg-Zermatt<br />

Interventional Congresses.<br />

Prof. Richter continues to be extremely active in Interventional<br />

Radiology, both at the clinical and academic level, focusing<br />

above all on vascular stenting and recanalisation techniques<br />

(more than 800 cases per year) and embolization and local<br />

ablation (more than 250 cases per year).<br />

Goetz Richter and his wife Barbara have three children and live<br />

in Stuttgart.<br />

CI<strong>RSE</strong> Opening Ceremony and Awards<br />

götz M. Richter will be awarded<br />

Saturday, September 15<br />

14:30-16:00

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