Residence Portland, Oregon | Name Josef Rosch | |
Born 1925 Pilsen, Czechoslovakia Education MD from Charles University in 1950. Radiology residency at Central Military Hospital in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Occupation Professor of Vascular and Interventional Radiology | ||
IGI50 congress celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Charles Dotter
Josef Rosch (born in 1925) is an award winning researcher and pioneer in vascular and interventional radiology. Rosch was the first director of the Dotter Interventional Institute and served until 1995. He is credited with developing the TIPS procedure in 1969 and the incorporation of embolization into the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding in 1971. Dr. Rosch's work in the field of interventional radiology spans half a century and has resulted in over 470 scientific papers, multiple book chapters and dozens of scientific exhibits.
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- IGI50 congress celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Charles Dotter
- Early Life and Training
- Interventional Radiology Career
- Awards
- References
Early Life and Training
Josef Rosch was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1925. He credits his mother for inspiring him to help others and become a physician. Rosch attended medical school at Charles University in Prague and graduated in 1950. Initially, Rosch aspired to be an internist but decided to pursue radiology after working on splenoportography. After publishing a book on splenoportography, Rosch become friends with Charles Dotter. They would meet in 1963 at the Czechoslovak Radiologic Congress in Karlovy Vary, where Dotter gave his famous lecture on angiography, effectively creating the field of interventional radiology. Dotter recruited Rosch to do a one year fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University. After the fellowship, Rosch spent two years at UCLA before returning to Oregon in 1970.
Interventional Radiology Career
While Josef Rosch helped advance many aspects of interventional radiology, his crowning achievements were the development of the TIPS procedure and the incorporation of embolization into the treatment of gastrointestinal hemorrhage. The invention of the TIPS procedure, which creates a shunt between the portal and systemic venous circulation, revolutionized the treatment for portal hypertension. Similarly, arterial embolization for gastrointestinal bleeds became a powerful tool for life-threatening hemorrhages. Other techniques Rosch worked on include super-selective catheterization, expandable stents, thrombolysis and visceral angiography.
Rosch would become the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at OHSU. During the late 1980s, his work helped found the Dotter Interventional Institute. Rosch retired from clinical practice in 1995 and has since served in a research faculty role at the Dotter Institute.
Awards
Some of Dr. Rosch's notable awards include: