INDUSTRY NEWS PHILIPS HEALTHCARE GETS NEW CEO
signing of a strategic global partner- ship to provide advanced diagnostic and therapeutic solutions and services for treating cancer with image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery. The collaboration covers the mutual mar- keting and representation of prod- ucts for imaging and treatment in the global
ESGAR BACK IN UK
radiation oncology business. Deborah DiSanzo has been
appointed Chief Executive Officer of Philips Healthcare and member of its Executive Committee, with effect from May 1, to succeed Steve Rusck- owski, who has left the
company
after ten years service with Philips. DiSanzo, born in 1960 in the United States,
joined Philips in 2001 when
Philips acquired Agilent’s Healthcare Solutions Group. She became General Manager of Patient Monitoring in June 2006 and CEO of Healthcare Infor- matics and Patient Monitoring in June 2008. In April 2010, Deborah DiSanzo became CEO of Patient Care and Clin- ical Informatics (PCCI). Financial analysts say that in her
new role DiSanzo will face the chal- lenges of slower growth in the U.S. health-care market, political difficul- ties in Europe and a need to expand in emerging markets.
VARIAN AND SIEMENS TO COLLABORATE IN MARKETING RADIOSURGERY PRODUCTS
This collaboration further involves the development of software inter- faces between Siemens and Varian treatment systems. The two compa- nies will also investigate opportunities for joint development of new products for image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery. Under the agreement, Varian will represent Siemens diag- nostic imaging products such as CT, PET/CT or MRI to radiation oncology clinics around the world beginning immediately in most international markets.
Siemens Healthcare will
similarly represent Varian equipment and software for radiotherapy and radiosurgery within its offerings to its healthcare customers.
BRACCO CREATES NEW DIRECT PRESENCE IN ARGENTINA, BRAZIL & MEXICO Bracco Imaging, a leading global
Varian Medical Systems and Sie- mens Healthcare have announced the
APRIL/MAY 2012
company in the diagnostic imaging business, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the local Argentinian, Brazilian and Mexican subsidiaries of the Spanish company Justesa Imagen, an important distributor of contrast media in Latin America. Fulvio Renoldi Bracco, Head of the Global Business Unit Imaging of Bracco said “The acquisition follows a long-term strategy for strengthening Bracco Imaging’s presence in key mar- kets. With this transaction, Bracco Imag- ing has set another important milestone in its international expansion strategy which, over the last two years, has led to establishing a direct presence in South Korea, Scandinavia and Central Eastern Europe. Through the newly acquired affiliates, Bracco will reinforce its rela- tionship with the Latin America Scien- tific Community, offering a broad port- folio of contrast media, contrast admin- istration systems, and imaging solutions”
DI EUROPE
It’s been a long time coming but
after a gap of 21 years the ESGAR (European Society for Gastointesti- nal andAbdominal Radiology) is back in the UK. The 23rd Annual meet- ing of ESGAR will be held in Edin- burgh, capital city of Scotland, from June 12 to 15. The last ESGAR meet- ing in the UK was back in Oxford in 1991. No one who was at the 1991 meeting would recognize the meet- ing now, with no fewer than 1000 del- egates expected to attend this year’s meeting. Abdominal radiology is at the very centre of medical imaging and there will be something in this year’s programme to enhance every- one’s day-to-day clinical practice. In 2012 the Postgraduate Course, which always kicks-off the Annual Meeting, will focus on luminal gastrointesti- nal imaging, reflecting the UK’s long and illustrious heritage in that field, and recognizing that “the tube” has not been revisited as a postgraduate course topic since Crete in 2006. A major focus will be how to reengineer services to incorporate CT colonog- raphy, small bowel MRI, dynamic MR proctography etc. There will also be sessions on luminal radiology particu- larly relevant to our present health cli- mate, notably bariatric imaging, lumi- nal stenting and the ever-changing interface with endoscopic services. Of course, the main body of the meet- ing will provide very comprehensive coverage of our
subspecialty.There are multiple, simultaneous lecture sessions on every aspect of abdominal imaging, small-group workshops clinical-files, rad-path correlation, and the EPOS electronic poster system.
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