Armenian Association of Radiologists

On June 30th Armenian First Congress of Radiology was held in Marriott Hotel, which directly followed the ESOR course on “Abdominal Oncologic Imaging” conducted by honorary Professors of the European School of Radiology.
Specialists from Armenia and from abroad represented lectures on diagnostic and interventional radiology with interactive case discussions.
 
Professor Sergey Morozov, executive director of Russian Society of radiologists and roentgenologists was present during the Congress.

 

 

Dr. Kostan Galumyan, PhD. AAR President, made an opening speech and kindly welcomed all the guests, honorary professors and all participants.
 

The first presentation was made by Professor Sala, MD, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK, on the topic of Updates on Functional MRI of Genitourinary system, uterus.
 

PhD. Gegham Aghabekyan,Chief radiologist of the Ministry of Healthcare of RA gave lecture on “Ultrasound Diagnostic Features of Ectopic Thymic Tissue in the Neck Area”.
 
Then Prof. Charikleia Triantopoulou, ead of the Radiology department at “Konstantopouleion” general Hospital, Athens, Greece, talked about “Imaging in Acute Pancreatitis”.
  
 
 
 

 

Professor Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis, the founder of the European School of Radiology, first President of the ESR represented his lecture on the “Role, Structure and Perspectives of Multidisciplinary teams”.
Dr. Aramayis Galumyan, interventional radiologist, Nairi MC, represented one of the newest technologies in the field of interventional radiology, the “Radiofrequency Ablation of Tumours”, a minimally invasive procedure that has been successfully practiced in Armenia during the last years.
 
Prof.Stoupis, Head of Radiology Dept. at Hospital Lake of Zurich, Maennedorf, Switzerland, continued with his presentation on “Cystic Hepatobiliary Lesions”.
 

 
Dr.Narek Matinyan, Deputy Director at MIBS MC, AAR secretary, talked about the “MRI Features in Infrequent Brain Pathologies”.
 
After the lunch break Dr. Marina Aloyan, YSMU, represented a presentation on “Interactive Neuroradiology Cases” and Dr Garik Hovhannisyan, Astghik MC, talked about “Advantages of MRI Examination During Knee Injury”.

 
The last lecture of the Congress was conducted by Dr. Tsaturyan, interventional cardiologist at Erebui MC, who talked about another interventional radiology technique – Transarterial Embolization as Minimally Invasive Treatment Option for Uterine Fibroids and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia”.
 
 

 
The congress was marked by unique surprises for the guests and participants. The letters were extremely touched by the musical performance of young and talented musicians with Hayk Karapetyan combined Armenian folk music with modern instrumentation and added cultural elements to the event.
Another surprise was the rewarding of Prof. Gourtsoyinnnis with Honorary Membership of Armenian Association of Radiologists.
 
These two days of the scientific programmes were huge event in the field of radiology and were embraced with inspiration and joy.
 
We express our gratitude to the professors of the ESOR, honorary lectures and guests, the organizers all participants, Dr. Samson Khachatryan and Dr. Hasmik Amirjanyan for providing the simultaneous interpretation, as well as our partners, AAR residents Mery Davtyan, Aghavni Karapetyan, Janeta Kayfajyan for their assistance and special thanks to Marianna Harutyunyan for her invaluable support.