Video: RöKo 2026 puts next generation center stage

The German radiology congress RöKo 2026 made attracting the next generation a deliberate priority, with Science Slams, Oxford debates, and Rockstars of Radiology to make the field's biggest conversations feel less like lectures and more like a community.

Josephine Berger, Dr. Nour Maalouf EDiR, and Dr. Fiona Mankertz bring fresh energy to radiology's biggest stage.Josephine Berger, Dr. Nour Maalouf EDiR, and Dr. Fiona Mankertz bring fresh energy to radiology's biggest stage. Courtesy Claudia TschabuschnigIn Leipzig, we spoke with three residents from University Hospital Tübingen to hear what brought them here and what keeps them engaged. Josephine Berger, Dr. Nour Maalouf EDiR, and Dr. Fiona Mankertz, whose AI research earned her the Gustav-Bucky-Preis, each found their way into radiology differently: from piecing a puzzle together to discovering a specialty that connects everything else in medicine.

All three see radiology as a field of extraordinary range and potential, and they are living proof of it. Excited about where it is heading, clear-eyed about challenges, and candid about what needs to change, they are not willing to inherit the field as it is, but rather shape it into what it could be.

Our full coverage of RöKo 2026 can be found here.

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