Christian Herold MD

Christian J. Herold is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital. Director of International Affairs at the same institution, and a part-time faculty member of Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, USA. He is well known and respected for his work in thoracic radiology. Prof. Herold initially studied medicine at the medical school of the University of Vienna. After receiving his medical degree and he went on to serve as an intern at the Weinviertel Clinical Centre in Mistelbach, Lower Austria. He was a fellow of the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Following this fellowship he became a part time member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins and he received a tenured position as an associate professor at the University of Vienna. A year later he was appointed acting director of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Vienna General Hospital, a post which he held when he became a full professor.

Prof. Herold has received throughout his career are the Hounsfield Award of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Honorary Membership of the Radiological Society of North America. He has also been awarded honorary membership of the Iranian Society of Radiology, Argentinean Society of Radiology, French Society of Radiology, and the Hungarian Society of Radiology. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Cornell University and the Mayo Clinic. Prof. Herold is widely respected as a thoracic radiologist who is committed to passing his knowledge on to the next generation. He served as President of the European Society of Radiology.