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Education program

Education program

  • Sunday, March 30, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    JVIR Writing Club: IRs-in-Training
    Coordinator: Ziv J. Haskal, MD (he/him/his) – Univ of Virginia
    General IRCategorical CourseJVIR
     Earn 1 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Vascular Malformations The Basics
    Coordinator: Brian Funaki, MD, FSIR – University of Chicago
    Coordinator: Jessie Stewart, MD (she/her/hers) – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    EmbolizationLevel 100 (beginner)Angio-club WorkshopMedical Students
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    AI in IR: Where are we today and where we are going?
    Coordinator: Dania Daye, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
    General IRLevel 200 (intermediate)Categorical CourseIR physicians
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Oncologic Interventions: Tips and tricks from experts around the World
    Coordinator: Constantinos T. Sofocleous, MD PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    Coordinator: Afshin Gangi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University Hospital Of Strasbourg
    Interventional OncologyLevel 200 (intermediate)Categorical Course
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Breast Cancer Cryoablation
    Coordinator: Kenneth Tomkovich, MD – Princeton University
    Coordinator: Yolanda Bryce, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Interventional OncologyLevel 100 (beginner)Categorical CourseMedical Students
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Soup to Nuts: Building a Pain Practice and Regional Blocks
    Coordinator: Junjian Huang, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
    Coordinator: Shantanu Warhadpande, MD – University of Michigan Medical Center
    Pain Management/MSKLevel 200 (intermediate)Categorical Course
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Stroke
    Coordinator: Manraj Kanwal Singh Heran, MD (he/him/his) – BC Children's Hospital; Vancouver General Hospital
    Coordinator: Joseph J. Gemmete, MD, FACR, FSIR – Radiology, Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Otolaryngology Michigan Medicine
    Neurointerventional RadiologyLevel 100 (beginner)Categorical Course
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Office Based Labonomics 101: Building a core team, exploring different models
    Co-Coordinator: Michelle N. Maneevese, MD (she/her/hers) – Access Vascular Health
    Coordinator: Derek Mittleider, MD, FSIR – Vascular and Embolization Specialists
    Office-based ProceduresLevel 100 (beginner)Categorical Course
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    PAD Practice Building: Private Practice to Ivory Tower
    Coordinator: Srini Tummala, MD – Florida Vascular Specialists
    Coordinator: Amy C. Taylor, MD, MBA (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
    PAD/Arterial InterventionsLevel 100 (beginner)Categorical CourseMedical Students
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    The State of PE: Where We Are, Where We Need To Go
    Coordinator: Carin Gonsalves, MD, FSIR – Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
    Coordinator: Mona Ranade, MD (she/her/hers) – UCLA
    Venous InterventionsLevel 200 (intermediate)Categorical Course
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Women’s Health in the Pelvis Beyond Fibroids
    Coordinator: Claire Kaufman, MD – OHSU
    Coordinator: Nicole Lamparello, MD – New York-Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical College
    Women's HealthLevel 200 (intermediate)Categorical CourseIR physicians
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Opening Plenary Session with Gold Medalists, Leader in Innovation Awards and Dotter Lecture
    Plenary Faculty: Robert Lewandowski, MD – Northwestern University, Dept. of Radiology, IR section
    Plenary Faculty: Maureen Kohi, MD – UNC
    Award Recipient: Yasuaki Arai, MD, FSIR – National Cancer Center Hospital
    Award Recipient: Michael Brunner, MD – Madison VAH, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine
    Award Recipient: Lindsay Machan, MD, FSIR – University of British Columbia
    Award Recipient: Jeanne LaBerge, MD, FSIR – SIR
    Award Recipient: John Kaufman, MD, FSIR, MS – Dotter Interventional Institute
    Award Recipient: Vicki Marx, MD, FSIR – University of Southern California
    Award Recipient: Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FACR, FSIR (he/him/his) – UNC School of Medicine
    General IRPlenary Session
     Earn 1.5 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Dialysis: Percutaneous AVF Creation and Advanced Interventions
    Coordinator: Bart Dolmatch, MD – PAMF and El Camino Hospital
    Coordinator: Scott O. Trerotola, MD – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
    Dialysis InterventionsLevel 200 (intermediate)Angio-club Workshop
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Embolization M&M
    Coordinator: Jason Wong, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre
    Coordinator: David Valenti, MD, FSIR – McGill University
    EmbolizationLevel 300 (advanced)Angio-club Workshop
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    My Best Save: GI Interventions
    Coordinator: Jonathan Lorenz, MD, FSIR – The University of Chicago
    Coordinator: Baljendra Kapoor, MD, MBA – Vascular and Interventional Radiology
    Gastrointestinal InterventionsLevel 200 (intermediate)Angio-club Workshop
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Genitourinary Potpourri and M&M: How to manage complications in difficult cases
    Coordinator: Quinn Meisinger, MD (he/him/his) – UC San Diego
    Coordinator: Keith Quencer, MD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health and Science University
    General IRLevel 300 (advanced)Angio-club WorkshopIR physicians
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Preventing IR complications through imaging review
    Coordinator: Olga Brook, MD, FSIR, MBA – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Coordinator: Jeffrey Weinstein, MD, FSIR – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    ImagingLevel 200 (intermediate)Angio-club Workshop
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Renal Ablation: from pre-procedural evaluation through post-procedural care
    Coordinator: Andrew Gunn, MD – University of Alabama At Birmingham
    Coordinator: Mohamed E. Abdelsalam, MD – UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Interventional OncologyLevel 200 (intermediate)Angio-club Workshop
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Breaking Barriers: Navigating Exclusivity Clauses and Mastering Contract Negotiations
    Coordinator: Mary Costantino, MD, FSIR (she/her/hers) – Advanced Vascular Centers
    Coordinator: Michael Cumming, MD, MBA, RPVI (he/him/his) – Vascular and Interventional Experts
    Office-based ProceduresLevel 200 (intermediate)Categorical Course
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    What is important and new in Wound care?
    Coordinator: Kumar Madassery, MD – Rush University Medical Center, Rush Oak Park
    Coordinator: Nicholas Alianello – Rush University Medical Center
    PAD/Arterial InterventionsLevel 200 (intermediate)Angio-club Workshop
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Breaking the ICE: Mastering TIPS in Portal Hypertension
    Coordinator: George Behrens, MD – VIR Chicago
    Coordinator: Merve Ozen, MD – Mayo Clinic Arizona
    Portal HypertensionLevel 300 (advanced)Angio-club Workshop
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Live Ultrasound in Comprehensive Venous Care -- Iliac Obstruction, Iliac Compression, Renal Compression, and Ovarian Reflux
    Coordinator: Nicos Labropoulos, PhD – Vascular Surgery Stony Brook University
    Coordinator: Neil M. Khilnani, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine-NY Presbyterian Hospital
    Venous InterventionsLevel 200 (intermediate)Angio-club Workshop
     Earn 1.25 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    ECS: Trailblazing Insights - Learning from the Pioneers in Interventional Radiology
    Coordinator: Merve Ozen, MD – Mayo Clinic Arizona
    Coordinator: Thomas Tullius, MD – University Medical Center, El Paso, Texas
    General IRLevel 100 (beginner)Section ProgrammingECS
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    IR Education and Practice around the world. Potential efforts for global improvement of IR Practice through education.
    Coordinator: Robert A. Morgan, MD, FSIR – St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George's University of London
    Coordinator: Michael Dake, MD – University of Arizona
    Panelist: Brian Stainken, MD – Self employed
    Panelist: Murthy R. Chamarthy, MD – UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas ; Lake Granbury Medical Center, Granbury and Texas Center for Interventional Surgery, Addison
    Panelist: Ethel G. Rivas Zuleta, MD (she/her/hers) – Iberoamerican Society of Interventional Radiology
    Panelist: Koichiro Yamakado, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Radiology, Hyogo Medical University
    Panelist: Shuvro H. Roy-Choudhury, MD, MBBS – NH Group of hospitals India
    Panelist: Kiang Hiong Tay, FSIR, MBBS – Singapore General Hospital
    Panelist: Constantinos T. Sofocleous, MD PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    SIR Connect Townhall
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    Are you ready to become a department as an IR service in your own hospital?
    Coordinator: Bulent Arslan, MD, FSIR – Rush University Medical Center
    Panelist: Joshua Weintraub, MD, FACR, FSIR (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Panelist: Khashayar Farsad, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health and Science University
    SIR Connect Townhall
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    Fluoroscopy privileges and related challenges for APPs
    Coordinator: Carrie M. Hayes DMSc, MS, PA-C (she/her/hers) – Advanced Vascular Centers
    Coordinator: Angela Nash, PhD, PA-C – Mecklenburg Radiology Associates
    Coordinator: Christopher Davis, PA-C – Radiology Partners Phoenix
    SIR Connect Townhall
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    Meaningful Mentorship - From trainee to mid career attending
    Coordinator: Jackie Brenner, BS (she/her/hers) – University of Miami
    Coordinator: Aazrin Mir, MS (she/her/hers) – Georgetown University School of Medicine
    Panelist: Gregg Khodorov, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Department of Radiology
    Panelist: Neil K. Jain, DO (he/him/his) – Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
    Panelist: Brittany Brookner, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington / University of Pennsylvania
    Panelist: Meghan R. Clark, MD (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
    SIR Connect TownhallMedical Students
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    Being an IR Within A DR/IR Private Practice Group - Where Are We in 2025?
    Coordinator: Raj Pyne, MD, FSIR – Rochester Regional Health
    Coordinator: Jason C. Hoffmann, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – New York University Long Island School of Medicine
    Panelist: Mark L. Lessne, MD, FSIR – Charlotte Radiology
    Panelist: Swar Shah, MD – American Radiology Associates / Baylor University Medical Center
    Panelist: Sonali Mehandru, MD – New Mexico VA Health Care System
    Practice DevelopmentLevel 200 (intermediate)Level 300 (advanced)SIR Connect Townhall
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    Unique challenges like breastfeeding, maternity leave, advocacy, etc.
    Coordinator: Jessie Stewart, MD (she/her/hers) – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    Coordinator: Abinaya Ramakrishnan – UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
    Panelist: Claire Kaufman, MD – OHSU
    Panelist: Kirema Garcia-Reyes, MD – Mount Sinai
    Panelist: Teodora Bochnakova, MD – Oregon Health and Science University
    Panelist: Shenise Gilyard, MD – UCLA
    SIR Connect Townhall
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    JVIR/WIR Joint Workshop on Scholarly Writing and Reviewing
    Coordinator: Daniel Y. Sze, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Panelist: Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, MD, FSIR – University of California
    Panelist: Shellie Josephs, MD (she/her/hers) – Texas Childrens Austin; Baylor College of Medicine
    Panelist: Maria del Pilar Bayona Molano, MD, FSIR – University of Miami
    Panelist: Divya Kumari, MD – University of Chicago Hospitals
    Panelist: Anna Sophia McKenney, MD, PhD, MPH (he/him/his) – Weill Cornell Medicine / NewYork Presbyterian
    Panelist: Xiao Wu, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Francisco
    Panelist: Qian Yu, MD (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Panelist: Ron C. Gaba, MD, MS – University of Illinois at Chicago
    General IRCategorical CourseJVIR
     Earn 1 CME
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    Demystifying Fertility Preservation in IR
    Coordinator: Ashley Lamba – Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
    Coordinator: Rebecca Choi, MD – Johns Hopkins
    Panelist: Christine Yoon (she/her/hers) – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Panelist: Lilit Aslanyan, DO, MS – Emory University School of Medicine
    Panelist: Anne Sailer, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Panelist: Michelle Roach, MD (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Panelist: Sagine Berry-Tony, MD – Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine
    SIR Connect Townhall
     Earn 1 CME