Walter Hruby

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Walter Hruby (born July 21, 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian radiologist .

Career

Hruby studied medicine at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1973. In 1980 Walter Hruby graduated as a specialist in radiology and from 1988 headed the Institute for X-ray Diagnostics in the Danube Hospital of the Social Medicine Center East of the City of Vienna. In 1990 Hruby qualified as a university lecturer in radiology and in 1995 was awarded the professional title of extraordinary university professor by the Federal President ; since 2002 he has been entitled to use the title of university professor .

Walter Hruby is the director of the Institute for X-ray Diagnostics in the Donauspital of the Social Medical Center East of the City of Vienna and has been the Medical Coordinator of the North Hospital of the Donauspital since 2010.

PACS

In 1992, Walter Hruby was probably the first to set up a hospital- wide digital image archiving and communication system ( PACS ) without conventional X-ray films in the Vienna Donauspital, thereby significantly influencing the global development of digital radiology. The introduction of such a system enabled the radiological departments to switch from analog to digital image analysis with a multitude of additional diagnostic options and the associated greatly improved diagnostic quality, without incurring higher costs.

Awards and memberships

Walter Hruby received the Golden Decoration of Honor from the City of Vienna in 2008 .

Until October 2010 Walter Hruby was President of the Austrian Radiological Society and he was also Vice President of the Association of Medical Directors and Primary Physicians in Austria. In 2012 Walter Hruby was awarded honorary membership in the German Radiological Society and the Association for Medical Radiation Protection. Walter Hruby has been President of the Society of Doctors in Vienna and a member of the scientific advisory board of the ÖAMTC since 2015 .

Publications

As of 2013, Walter Hruby has published 219 scientific publications (60 of which are special in the field of digital radiology) and, as the main author, the non-fiction book Digital (R) Evolution in Radiology: Bridging the Future of Health Care ( ISBN 978-3-211-20815-1 ) written.

Selection of scientific publications:

  • Michael Urban, Harald R. Rosen, Nikolaus Hölbling, Wolfgang Feil, Gerhard Hochwarther, Walter Hruby, Rudolf Schiessel: MR Imaging for the Preoperative Planning of Sphincter-saving Surgery for Tumors of the Lower Third of the Rectum: Use of Intravenous and Endorectal Contrast Materials . In: RSNA Radiology . tape 212 , no. 2 , February 2000, doi : 10.1148 / radiology.214.2.r00fe08503 (English).
  • Brigitte Holzer, Michael Urban, Nikolaus Hölbling, Wolfgang Feil, Gabriele Novi, Walter Hruby, Harald R. Rosen, Rudolf Schiessel: Magnetic resonance imaging predicts sphincter invasion of low rectal cancer and influences selection of operation . In: Elsevier (Ed.): Surgery . tape 133 , no. 6 , June 2003, p. 656-661 , doi : 10.1067 / msy.2003.150 (English).
  • Wolfgang Krampla, Fahmy Aboul-Enein, Julia Jecel, Wilfried Lang, Elisabeth Fertl, Walter Hruby, Wolfgang Kristoferitsch: Spinal cord lesions in patients with neuromyelitis optica: a retrospective long-term MRI follow-up study . In: Springer (Ed.): European Radiology . tape 19 , no. 10 , October 2009, p. 2535-2543 , doi : 10.1007 / s00330-009-1425-3 (English).
  • Gerald Pärtan, Rudolf Mayrhofer, Michael Urban, Manfred Wassipaul, Ludwig Pichler, Walter Hruby: Diagnostic performance of liquid crystal and cathode-ray-tube monitors in brain computed tomography . In: Springer (Ed.): European Radiology . tape 13 , no. 10 , October 2003, p. 2397-2401 , doi : 10.1007 / s00330-003-1822-y (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Univ.Prof. Dr. Walter Hruby. Retrieved February 10, 2014 .
  2. ^ HK Huang: PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles and Applications . 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken / New Jersey 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-37372-9 , pp. 9 f .
  3. ↑ drian MK Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee: The History of Radiology . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-963997-7 , pp. 147 .
  4. ↑ The ÖRG congratulates. Retrieved February 10, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Prof. Walter Hruby and lecturer Franz Frühwald become honorary members of the Association for Medical Radiation Protection in Austria. Retrieved February 10, 2014 .
  6. ^ New Presidium of the Society of Doctors in Vienna. Retrieved February 10, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hruby, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna