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Antoine Béclère Medalist Recipients

Antoine Béclère

The Antoine Béclère Medal was created under ISR Treasurer Dr Jean-François Moreau during a session held in Paris between officers of the ISR and Dr Jean-Victor Raust, Secretary General of the Centre Antoine Béclère. Antoine’s unmarried daughter, Antoinette Béclère, before her death, granted the ISR with a large amount of money in order to give the former ISR Secretary General, Walter Fuchs, the means to develop his projects of African radiologist education. Dr Moreau obtained a general consensus among the ISR Executive Committee for the creation of a new kind of ISR honors in the form of a Béclère Medal as well as a Béclère Lecture and a Fuchs Lecture, in order to perpetuate the memory of both major leaders of international radiology and medical imaging. The honors have been awarded during the biennial International Congress of Radiology since ICR’96 held in Beijing where two main educational leaders, Dr Gerald Hanson of the WHO and Dr Philip Palmer of the UCSF, were elected during an ad hoc committee chaired by Dr Moreau, who was himself honored in 2000 in Bueno s Aires with Dr Ludovico Dalla Palma, Dr Lenny Tan and Dr de Souza Almeida. The first Fuchs Lecture was delivered by Dr Maurice Tubiana, both Past-President of the ISR and President of the Centre Antoine Béclère.

Antoine Béclère Medalists & Lecturers
Walter Fuchs Lecturers*

At each International Congress of Radiology, the International Society of Radiology sponsors a distinguished lecture featuring an outstanding radiologist. 

Named after our benefactor, Antoine Béclère, the Béclère lecture covers scientific advances in international radiology. 

1996 – Beijing, People’s Republic of China – ICR 1996
– Gerald Hanson – WHO/USA
– Philip Palmer – USA
– Maurice Tubiana* – France

1998 – New Delhi, India – ICR 1998
– Sundersham Aggarwal – India
– Charles Gooding* – USA
– Ian Isherwood – UK
– Holger Pettersson – Sweden
– Robert Steiner – UK

2000 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – ICR 2000

– Ludovico Dalla Palma* – Italy
– Sidney deSouza Almeida – Brazil
– Jean-François Moreau – France  
– Lenny TK Tan – Singapore

2002 – Cancun, Mexico – ICR 2002
– Anne Osborn – USA
– Peter D. Corr* – South Africa
– Josef Lissner – Germany
– Joseph A. Marasco, Jr. – USA
– Jose Luis Ramirez-Arias – Mexico

2004 – Montreal, Canada – ICR 2004
– Barry B. Goldberg – USA
– Pablo Ros* – USA
– Carl-Gustaf Standertskjöld-Nordenstam – Finland
– Mutsumasa Takahashi – Japan
– Harald Østensen – WHO/Switzerland

2006 – Capetown, South Africa – ICR 2006
– Guy Frija* – France
– Hedvig Hricak – USA
– George Klempfner – Australia
– Lilian Leong – Hong Kong
– Cesar S. Pedrosa – Spain

2008 – Marrakech, Morocco – ICR 2008
– Francisco Arredondo* – Guatemala
– Elias Zehrouni – USA

2010 – Shanghai, People’s Republic of China – ICR 2010
– A. James Barkowitz – USA
– Dai Jianping* – PR s China
– Claude Manelfe – France
– Rolf Guenther – Germany

2012 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – ICR 2012
– James Thrall – USA
– Hans Ringertz – Sweden

2014 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates – ICR 2014
– Harvey Neiman – USA
– Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis – Greece

2016 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – ICR 2016 
– Helmut Diefenthal – USA
– Hassen Gharbi – Tunisia

2018
– James P. Borgstede – USA
– Lawrence Lau – Australia

2023 – Hurghada, Egypt – ICR 2023
– Eric Stern – USA
– Jan Labuscagne – South Africa