sentences:  After more than three years of meetings and discussions, the General Assembly of EAR held in the on March 7, 2005 unanimously approved of the statutes of the ESR, paving the way for the creation of the society as it functions today.Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis of the University of Crete, a guiding force behind the creation of the ESR and president of ECR 2003, served as its first president from December 2005 to March 2007.The House of European Radiology is the current headquarters of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and has been since 2018 after the completion of its renovation.