ISR President Welcome Massage

Radiology – domestic and international challenges

Economic and scientific issues are two domestic and international challenges present in today radiology.

From an economic perspective, soared prices and worldwide inflation have imposed challenges in the import of consumable goods and technical equipments. Furthermore, global sanctions and fluctuations of foreign exchange have caused a dramatic decline in the value of national currency which has made the situation more critical to the extent that investment for establishing new radiology center is nearly impractical.

From a scientific perspective and beauties of new radiology and imaging the emergence of different disciplinaries and fine technologies such as sonography, CT scan and MRI, PET-CT and PET-MR have has made this field quite attractive to other areas.

Today, Diagnostic imaging moves towards benefiting all medical disciplinaries rather than just radiology. However, through relying on clinical sciences, radiologist still remains on top of the list. 

The congress at hand ICR30, is going to be held under domestic and international social, political and economic pressures on the members of the ISR and congress.

Therefore, the young president of the current congress is expected to put more emphasis on scientific and clinical issues and ask for competent researchers to take part in the presentation.

I, hereby, thank faculty member university of medical sciences, Shahid Beheshti, Dr. Haghighatkhah, who has dedicated more than a year to the congress activities in order to mark another success in the history of this committee.

Scientific and executive secretaries of ICR30, Dr. Marina Pourafkari, Dr. Reza Bakhshandehpour, Dr. Mohammad Reza Movahhedi and Dr. Kourosh Abdollahifard are four of the well-known and recongnized faces of this congress who have provided a comprehensive agenda for the executive and scientific committees which will have its outcomes clear by the end of the ICR30.

Moreover, lack of sufficient number of radiologists in the public and governmental sector is observable which needs to be addressed through two main approaches; one is putting emphasis on a sense of loyalty for radiologists towards their native region and the second solution is increasing the efforts from the public sector to further motivate the candidates.

The society can achieve success in this matter by promoting a mutual understanding with the public sector.

Welcome to all our guests from near and far parts of country and world for attending ICR30 – Tehran – 2014.  

J. Jalal Shokouhi M.D.

President, Iranian Society of Radiology