Lectures

Since 1990, the Dotter Institute staff have given more than 500 scientific presentations and didactic lectures at local, regional, national and international meetings all over the world. Outside the United States, they lectured in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Thailand.

Their presentations and lectures covered a wide range of diagnostic and interventional topics including, among others: diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and pulmonary bleeding; use of stents and stent grafts for lesions of arteries, veins, the esophagus, trachea and biliary system; the history and future of expandable stents; treatment of stroke and arteriovenous malformations in the brain and lungs; fibroid embolization; TIPS; IVC filters; new stent types; complications of vascular and interventional procedures; the present status and future of interventional radiology; use of high technology in education; and techniques of televideo transmissions.

Drs. Fred Keller and Josef Rösch were keynote speakers at several national and international meetings and congresses and had several prestigious memorial lectures. Dr. Keller presented the Charles Dotter Memorial Lecture at the annual SCVIR 2000 meeting in San Diego and at the Pacific Northwest Radiological Society. Dr. Rösch delivered the Gruntzig Memorial Lecture at the annual Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe meeting in 1997 in Madeira, Portugal, and the Tegtmeyer Memorial Lecture at the International Vascular and Interventional Symposium in 1999 in Miami.

The Institute’s staff members are also very active in publishing results of their basic and clinical research in scientific journals, and their papers in educational review journals and books. The institute staff published 278 papers from 1990 to 2001. These include 162 scientific papers in peer review journals, 116 book chapters, and educational and review articles.