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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