Prof Dr Michael Fuchsjaeger


President, European Society of Radiology,
Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology,
Medical University of Graz,
Graz, Austria

Dr. Michael Fuchsjäger is a Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Medical University Graz, Austria. Dr. Fuchsjäger received his MD degree from the University of Vienna and completed his residency at the Medical University of Vienna’s Department of Radiology. He was a research scholar at the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. He also served as Chair of the Clinical Imaging Institute at Al Ain Hospital in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Dr. Fuchsjäger’s clinical work and research is dedicated to diagnostic and interventional breast radiology with a focus on minimally invasive therapy. He serves on various committees for national and international radiology and senology societies, first and foremost the European Society of Radiology, as the Committee Chair for Communication and External Affairs on the Executive Council, as well as the Chair of Evaluation of the Programme Planning Committee for the European Congress of Radiology.

Furthermore, he is a member of the executive boards of the European Society of Breast Imaging, the Austrian Roentgen Society and the Austrian Society of Senology. Dr. Fuchsjäger is a member of the editorial boards of several of the most prestigious radiology journals including Radiology and European Radiology. Previously a guest editor for the 2005 special editions on breast imaging of Investigative Radiology, he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, review articles and book chapters. Dr. Fuchsjäger has also presented more than 400 educational lectures at the most prestigious radiology conferences worldwide.