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CertificationEuropean Certification for Endovascular Specialists

European Certification for Endovascular Specialists

CIRSE is offering a specialist certification for EBIR holders who seek recognition of their expertise and experience in the field of endovascular therapy. This advanced qualification aims to further the acknowledgement of IRs as experts in minimally-invasive, image-guided endovascular treatment and provide a certification of documented experience to support IRs at a local level.

Scope of this certification

This evidence-based certification allows IRs to prove their expert knowledge which has been gained through the extensive performance of endovascular procedures. It is based on the European Curriculum and Syllabus for IR and highlights the important role that endovascular therapy plays within IR practice. To effectively verify an applicant’s experience, the application process will feature a number of elements including the provision of specific documentation co-signed by an authorized representative and the completion of CIRSE Academy online learning courses.

Successful recipients of the European Certificate for Endovascular Specialists are entitled to use the post-nominal qualification EBIR-ES.

Eligibility requirements

To apply for the EBIR ES certification, please complete the application form and click on the “Apply now” button to begin your registration.

Applicants must be European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) holders and must have passed the EBIR at least two years prior to applying for this certification. During this time, the applicant must have been actively practicing interventional radiology and endovascular therapy.

The application form can be downloaded here.

The form will verify that the applicants meet the following criteria:

Clinical competency checklist

As part of the application form, the checklist details the applicants’ clinical competency and confirms that they have seen at least 200 patients in-clinic since successfully completing the EBIR examination.

Education

Applicants must have attended a minimum of three CIRSE Live or Online Educational Events in the 5 years prior to application. These include CIRSE Annual Congresses, suitable clinical device trainings of the European School for Interventional Radiology (ESIR), the European Conference on Embolotherapy (ET), and the European Conference on Complications in Interventional Radiology (ICCIR).

For each of the three events to count toward the requirement, applicants must have a registration for each event. All-Access Pass holders who plan to attend events virtually, must sign in as online users. This feature is available on the congress platform throughout the duration of the event and for 12 weeks thereafter.

Furthermore, applicants are required to have successfully completed at least three of the below listed CIRSE Academy Courses*:

*Access to the CIRSE Academy courses is granted via the All-Access Pass (fee-based). Pass holders also profit from digital access to CIRSE congresses, all CIRSE webinars and strongly reduced onsite fees for all CIRSE congresses for the year of purchase.

Get your All Access Pass 2024 here!

Membership

Applicants must be CIRSE members in good standing.

Applicants are required to have completed at least 250 advanced IR procedures (in addition to the 150 vascular EBIR-required procedures, for a detailed list of the procedures please click here) as primary operator. These advanced procedures may be solely either venous or arterial, or a combination of both. This must be verified by the Authorized Representative as listed in the application form.

The required 250 procedures are to be completed since the applicant successfully passed the EBIR, and prior to application submission.

The application fee for the EBIR specialist certification is €250.

Application review times can vary, but most applicants will be confirmed within six weeks of their application being submitted. In case the application form is not complete, applicants can expect to be contacted to provide the required information.

 

Application process and review

EBIR Endovascular specialists

The following physicians have been certified as EBIR Endovascular specialists.

NameCountry
Aeed AlAklabiSaudi Arabia
Akash PrasharUnited Kingdom
Alexis RicoeurSwitzerland
Aman Kumar India
Amer MalouhiGermany
Andreas H. Mahnken
Germany
Arash NajafiSwitzerland
Arturo Alvarez LuqueSpain
Aws Sarmed AlfahadUnited Arab Emirates
Badar Bin Bilal Shafi
United Kingdom
Benedikt BeilsteinGermany
Can HazarUnited Kingdom
Carsten MeyerGermany
Christian Scheurig-Münkler
Germany
Christiaan van der LeijNetherlands
Christian WissgottGermany
Christof-Matthias SommerGermany
Christoph BinkertSwitzerland
Clemens BaumannGermany
Daniel GnutzmannGermany
Daniel KüttingGermany
Elias KehagiasGreece
Enrique Alejandre-LafontSwitzerland
Erik StahlbergGermany
Felix BudnyGermany
Filipe Veloso GomesPortugal
Florian Wolf
Austria
Gerard Goh
Australia
Gerardo Andrés Tovar FeliceSpain
Grigorios TsoukalosGreece
Hanno Hoppe
Switzerland
Hassan AbdullahKuwait
Hong Kuan KokAustralia
Igor LitvinSlovakia
Jakob SwanbergSweden
Jan HinrichsGermany
Jan Peter GoltzGermany
Jan Borggrefe
Germany
Jaume Sampere MoraguesSpain
Jens SchneiderGermany
Jernej LučevSlovenia
Jozef SivákSlovakia
Jules HarveyAustralia
Konstantinos PalialexisGreece
Lazaros ReppasGreece
Manuela Keller
Switzerland
Mateusz KrasunSweden
Marco DasGermany
Michael Kostrzewa Switzerland
Michael LeeIreland
Michael PittonGermany
Michiel de Haan
Netherlands
Miltiadis KrokidisGreece
Mohamad HamadyUnited Kingdom
Mohammed ShamseldinGermany
Nasreddin AbolmaaliGermany
Nasser AlgharemSaudi Arabia
Niklas NymanSweden
Omran Almokdad Qatar
Pankaj SharmaIndia
Panos Gkoutzios
United Kingdom
Patrick Haage
Germany
Patrick KnüselSwitzerland
Peter Attila MezesUnited Kingdom
Peter MeidGermany
Philippe PereiraGermany
Rached SiliniGermany
Ramanivas SundareyanUnited Kingdom
Rengarajan RajagopalIndia
Robert A Morgan
United Kingdom
Rohit Philip Thomas
Germany
Rolf W. HügliSwitzerland
Roman Klöckner
Germany
Sanne de BoerNetherlands
Saygin TunaGermany
Sebastian EbelGermany
Sebastian Kos
Switzerland
Sebastian SchottenGermany
Sheng Ming Alexander TanSingapore
Shueh Hao LimNew Zealand
Stavros SpiliopoulosGreece
Stefan Müller-HülsbeckGermany
Thomas JahnkeGermany
Thomas Rodt
Germany
Tiago BilhimPortugal
Tobias Michael PaulusGermany
Tobias Trabold
Germany
Uli FehrenbachGermany
Warren ClementsAustralia

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the EBIR specialist certification, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

CIRSE Certification and Accreditation Department
Neutorgasse 9/6
1010 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 1 904 2003
Fax: + 43 1 904 2003 30
E-mail: [email protected]