Vienna, December 19, 2025
Dear colleagues, dear friends,
With the holiday season now upon us, I would like to take the time to thank you for your dedication to our field, as well as the support you have shown ESHNR over the past year.
Thanks to the outstanding effort of David Summers, we were able to deliver a very well attended conference in Glasgow packed with interesting scientific and highly instructive educational sessions, as well as informative industry involvement. Our past-president Tim Beale and his team prepared a successful ultrasound workshop. The best published papers, best presentations and our 14 new diploma holders received awards whilst Ann King and Christine Glastonbury received their well-earned gold medals– congratulations to all of them! Through our joint sessions with the ASHNR, ESNR, BSHNI we continued our fruitful relationships. In return we were able to send invited speakers in return to London, Las Vegas and Istanbul, as well as the ESMRMB meeting in Marseille and the RANZCR congress in Melbourne amongst others.
The ESHNR continues to support the world of head and neck radiology in many ways. Delegates have joined various ESR committees, whilst members are regularly invited to lecture at the ECR and ESOR courses. Our fellows have led guidelines for the ESR Essentials series on thyroid imaging, facial pain, acute infections, pseudolesions and tinnitus whilst collaborations include the AOSNHNR-ASHNR-ESHNR Joint Task Force for extranodal extension in head and neck cancer (iENE) and an ESHNR-ASHNR joint survey on diffusion and perfusion imaging in the head and neck. Ongoing work will help achieve consensus for the standardized measurement of vestibular Schwannoma and explore the attitudes of our members to structured reporting. We are also proud to announce that a project on structured reporting and a consensus paper with ESMRMB on the use of Gadolinium in inner ear imaging are also in the pipeline. These activities are all proof of the exceptional commitment and world-wide cooperation of active ESHNR members to advance head and neck radiology practice.
We have continued our educational opportunities, providing regular webinars, dental webinars, as well as joint webinars with the ASHNR. Both the record number of online participants, and the number that view the recordings are proof of their success. Thank you to everybody involved; it is a huge effort, and we are proud of their high quality and interactivity.
Our special gratitude goes to Stephen Connor, whose time as chair of the Educational Committee has come to an end and who has not only ensured high quality teaching, but also smooth and fair procedures at the diploma examination. There has been a sharp upward trajectory in the number of applicants for our diploma which is testimony to the process and the perceived benefits We wish his successor Jussi Hirvonen good luck in his endeavor and are looking forward to his fresh ideas.
The fact that our online Masterclass kindly prepared by Darka Hadnadjev-Simonji was fully booked shortly after the announcement and attendance by all participants shows that our efforts don’t go unnoticed.
Our ESOR fellowships supported by the ESHNR are high in demand and help to propagate interest and expertise in our field. The ESOR-ESHNR fellowship programme will also continue in 2026.
ESHNR Mentoring Programme: Since its start in 2021, we have been able to match nearly 100 international mentor-mentee pairs, and we are proud that Anne Peportéis our first mentee who has mastered the transition to becoming a mentor herself!
Currently we have nearly 8000 followers on X and over 1,000 followers on LinkedIn, which we see as one of the many bridges to the next generation.
To cater for the special needs of young trainees we have established the SHINE Working Group. It stands for our rising Stars of Head and Neck Imaging Network, and it will organise one webinar per year, quiz cases and one session at the annual conference. It will work in close contact with the SHINE Club (all interested ESHNR members up till the age of 35) which will be a welcome addition to the family of the ESHNR.
It is with great joy that we have reached the threshold of over 1000 active members. We are grateful for your trust and will wholeheartedly continue our mission to enthuse and instruct, motivate and empower you for the best clinical practice for your head and neck patients and to catalyze research in this field.
I am grateful for the loyalty and ongoing efforts of all members of the Executive Committee and highly value their input.
None of our activities would be possible without Ricarda Allabauer and Francesca Cecutti from our office. They are the backbones of all our activities. They guide and support us with their expertise and continuous, as well as effective hard work.
On behalf of ESHNR, I would like to thank our office, our members, our industry partners and the radiological community for participating in our many events, activities and projects throughout 2025.
We wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year.
Kind regards,
Soraya Robinson
ESHNR President
