em. O.Univ.Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Rainer Rienmueller has been working as a clinical professor of Radiology at Weill College, Cornell University, San Francisco, USA Ordinarius for Radiology. He also held the position of Head of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. His main clinical interest is the non-invasive assessment of cardiac disease with CT, MSCT, DSCT and MR, and the integration of these methods into clinical practice. His main scientific interests include coronary heart disease and myocardial perfusion cybernetics, pericardial diseases, especially constrictive pericarditis.
Some other positions he has held are:
- Founder and First President of the European Society of Cardiac Radiology
- Organizer of Tutorials for Eastern European Radiologists on behalf of the ESR
- External Member of the Doctoral Study Program Committee for Radiology at Masarykova University Brno/Czech Republic
- Professor at the Medical University of Prague in Czech Republic
- Visiting Professor at the University of Jacksonville/Florida in the USA
- Founder of the Interdisciplinary Center for Cardiac Imaging (IC²) Graz
- Chief Advisor to the Minister of Labor, Health, and Social Affairs of Georgia
- Co-director of the Cardiac Imaging Seminars at the Open Medical Institute Salzburg/Austria
Prof. Rienmuller is a member of:
- German Radiological Society
- Austrian Radiological Society
- Bavarian Radiological Society
- Medical Society Styria
- Society of Thoracic Radiology (USA)
- German University Teachers Association
- European Society of Thoracic Radiology
- Radiological Society of North America (USA)
- German-Polish Radiological Society
- European Society of Cardiology
- Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (USA)
- European Congress of Radiology
- European University Radiologists
- European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
- European Society of Cardiac Radiology
- Honorary member of over 20 national radiological societies
- Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
- Foreign member of the "Royal Society of Sciences" in Uppsala in the class for Natural History and Medicine
- Foreign member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
He has received various honors and medals, including the 1984 W.C. German Radiology Medal, the 2000 Medal of Honor of the Republic of Kazakhstan for caring for people's health in Kazakhstan, the 2003 Medal of Honor of the Republic of Georgia awarded by President Eduard Shevardnadze, and the 2005 Boris Rajew Medal.
