Education
Rösch attended medical school at Charles University in Prague and graduated in 1950.
Rösch attended medical school at Charles University in Prague and graduated in 1950.
Rösch was the first director of the Dotter Interventional Institute and served until 1995. He is credited with developing the Treasury Inflation Protected Securities procedure in 1969 and the incorporation of embolization into the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding in 1971. Doctor Rösch"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.
Early Life and Training
Josef Rösch was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1925.
He credits his mother for inspiring him to help others and become a physician. Initially, Rösch aspired to be an internist but decided to pursue radiology after working on splenoportography.
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 Rösch to do a one year fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University.
After the fellowship, Rösch spent two years at University of California, Los Angeles before returning to Oregon in 1970.
Interventional Radiology Rösch would become the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at OHSU. During the late 1980s, his work helped found the Dotter Interventional Institute. Rösch retired from clinical practice in 1995 and has since served in a research faculty role at the Dotter Institute.