Riemer Slart

Riemer Slart is full professor “Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging” at the University of Groningen (RUG) since 2019 and part-time clinical full professor “Translational Molecular Imaging” at the University of Twente (UT), Enschede, the Netherlands since 2014.

Since 2001 he is permanent medical staff member as nuclear medicine physician of the Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging of the Medical Imaging Center at the UMCG. After a 2 year cross-over training he is registered now as well in cardiac radiology (CT & CMR). He is member of the Amyloidosis Center of Expertise and the Vasculitis Expertise Center of the Netherlands.

From 2014-2021 he was board member and secretary of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Cardiovascular Committee and currently he is member of the EANM Guideline Council. In 2016 he became member of the imaging working group large vessel vasculitis of the EULAR and in 2018 Chair of the working group Cardiovascular Imaging in infections and inflammation (4Is), a collaboration between the EANM and the EACVI/ESC. He is medical director of Molecular Imaging of the Center of Medical Imaging North-East Netherlands since 2018.

Riemer Slart is teacher in cardiovascular imaging at the European School of Molecular Imaging & Therapy (ESMIT) of the EANM, at the EULVIC for rheumatologists  and other teaching & training projects. He organized internships for the IAEA at his department in Groningen, to train technologists, physicians and clinical physicists in nuclear cardiology imaging, and is the founder of EURO-LEARN web platform. The European Increasing Awareness of Nuclear Scintigraphy in Cardiac Amyloidosis with support of the EANM/ESMIT and EACVI. At the University of Twente he is involved in several technical medicine projects, including AI, teaching in Technical Medicine curriculum, and bridging the clinic with technical needs & developments.

He is author of > 420 peer-reviewed publications in mainly Q1 international journals, contributed in 30 book chapters/book, and is Associate Editor & Editorial board-member of 6 scientific journals. He serves as a peer reviewer for more than a dozen scientific journals. He is involved in several international recommendations/guidelines in molecular imaging and initiator and conductor of several imaging research trials and international oriented.