Austrian Radiological Society
The Austrian Radiological Society (ÖRG) is a medical representative of Austrian radiologists.
history
On December 8, 1934, the Austrian Society for Radiology was founded in a constituent meeting at the Vienna General Hospital . The Society's first congress took place in September 1936, followed by another meeting in Vienna in July 1937, until the Society was dissolved when Austria was annexed to the German Reich.
After the Second World War, the constituent plenary assembly for the establishment of the Austrian Society for Radiology and Radiation Research took place on November 30, 1946 in the Vienna Polyclinic , whose name was changed in 1948 to the Austrian Radiology Society, Society for Radiology and Radiation Research , or ÖRG for short. The current name of the company is Österreichische Röntgengesellschaft - Society for Medical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine .
Above all, the association sees education and training as well as the introduction and maintenance of the highest possible standards in radiological practice as its main areas of responsibility.
Publications
The first volume of the newly founded specialist journal Radiologica Austriaca appeared in 1948, but was discontinued in 1968 for economic reasons. Since 1976, the journal Progress in the field of X-rays (RöFo) has been the official organ of the ÖRG.
Board and members
The office is in Vienna. President is Werner Jaschke ( Medical University Innsbruck ). The number of members was 906 as of 2010.
literature
- Hellmuth H. Ellegast (Ed.): Hundred years of medical radiology in Austria. Festschrift of the Austrian X-ray Society (ÖRG) with the collaboration of the Austrian Society for Radiation Oncology, Radiobiology and Medical Radiophysics (ÖGRO). Maudrich, Vienna / Munich / Bern 1995, ISBN 3-85175-617-7 .