The international Jury which labeled Strasbourg’s IHU project (Institute for Image-Guided Surgery) in 2011 visited IRCAD and IHU today, further to the mid-term audit performed at the end of last year. The objective of this visit was to analyze the unfolding of the project, gather the observations made about the IHU to improve the concept and to make recommendations for [...]
On February 22, 2017, Jacques Marescaux was in Taiwan to meet with Sen-Tien Tsai, Vice Minister, Ministry of Health and Welfare, to plan how IRCAD Taiwan courses could be included in the curriculum of Taiwanese surgeons. On the same day, he had an official meeting with Fong-Chin Su, Vice Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, to program the creation of [...]
On January 19, 2017, J. Scott Magnuson, MD, FACS, Chief Medical Officer, supervising and coordinating education at the Florida Hospital Nicholson Center (Orlando), and Todd Larson, Vice-President and Chief Clinical Officer, Mimic Medical Education & Development (Orlando), toured the IRCAD with Professor Jacques Marescaux and Professor Luc Soler. They all took part in a video conference with the team of [...]
On January 11, 2017, IRCAD had the visit of a Medtronic VIP team who came over to discuss common programs in the fields of R&D and medical imaging. From left to right: Rob Sharp, R&D director, general surgery, Surgical Innovations, Chris Barry, Medtronic Senior Vice President and President of Surgical Innovations, Jacques Marescaux, IRCAD President and Chairman of IHU Strasbourg, [...]
On January 9, 2017, Professor Jacques Marescaux was happy to welcome Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Schönberg, Chairman of the Mannheim/Heidelberg Universitätklinikum Radiology Department and Prof. Dr. med. Steffen Diehl, Head of the Mannheim/Heidelberg Universitätklinikum Interventional Radiology Department.
Already successful in London two years ago, Brasserie des Haras is once again ranked in the top ten best designed restaurants in the world, according to Hong Kong gourmet Crave magazine. A symbol of great achievement for this brasserie restaurant currently celebrating its third anniversary!
Professor Jacques Marescaux was awarded the distinction of Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association, at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Surgical Association which took place in Chicago on April 14, 2016.
On April 6, 2016, Strasbourg’s Image-Guided Surgery Institute (IHU/IRCAD Strasbourg) was honored during the first University Hospital Institute (IHU) International Days organized jointly by the CGI (General Commissariat for Investment), the Ministry of Health, and the ARIIS (Alliance for Healthcare Industries Research and Innovation).
Rio de Janeiro – Brazil: On Saturday, January 30, 2016, Professor Jacques Marescaux, IRCAD President, signed a partnership agreement with Dr. Edson De Godoy Bueno, CEO of Amil and board member of UnitedHealth group, with the objective of creating a new training center in Brazil in 2017 (IRCAD Rio).
during the 117th National Congress of the Italian Society of Surgery, which took place in Milan on October 21-24, 2015.
The renovation works, which took place in August in our experimental laboratory entirely dedicated to surgical training, have now been completed. The IRCAD minimally invasive surgery training platform now shifts from 17 to 34 operating tables.
On Sunday, August 23, 2015, during the opening ceremony of the World Congress of Surgery, which gathered more than 8,000 surgeons in Bangkok, the International Society of Surgery Prize was awarded to Professor Jacques Marescaux by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.