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Full Schedule

  • Tuesday, March 26, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM MT
    Members' Business Meeting
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM MT
    QPI Workgroup Working Meeting (per invitation only)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM MT
    Residency Essentials Advisory Council (per invitation only)
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM MT
    APDIR Business Meeting (per invitation only)
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM MT
    Imaging & Intervention: The Canon Experience (Presented by Canon Medical Systems USA)
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM MT
    WIR Governing Council (per invitation only)
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Artificial Intelligence in IR: What Every Interventional Radiologist Should Know

    Co-Coordinator: Julius Chapiro, MD, PhD – Yale Interventional Oncology Research Lab

    Coordinator: Dania Daye, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

    General IR

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Current State of Understanding and Developmental Research in PE Interventions

    Coordinator: Akhilesh Sista, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine

    Coordinator: Vivian Bishay, MD – Mount Sinai Hospital System

    Venous Interventions

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Endovascular Management of Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections

    Coordinator: John F. Angle, MD – University of Virginia

    Co-Coordinator: Aaron R. DuCoffe, MD – Fairfax Radiological Consultants and Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

    Arterial Interventions and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Ethics: Social Media, COI, and Beyond

    Coordinator: Charles Ray, Jr., MD, PhD – University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences Center

    Coordinator: Wael Saad, MD – University of Utah

    General IR

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Non-vascular Procedures in Women's Health

    Coordinator: Alexandra Fairchild, MD (she/her/hers) – LSU Health

    Coordinator: Francois Cornelis, MD, PhD – MSKCC

    Women's Health

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Pediatric Liver Transplant

    Coordinator: Aparna Annam, DO (she/her/hers) – Children's Hospital Colorado

    Coordinator: Joe Baker, IV, MD (he/him/his) – Lurie Children's Hospital/Lcmg

    Pediatric Interventions

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Pelvic Venous Disorders

    Coordinator: Amy C. Taylor, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia

    Coordinator: Neil Khilnani, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine-NY Presbyterian Hospital

    Women's Health

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Practice Development for Office-Based Procedures

    Coordinator: Premal Trivedi, MD, MS – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center

    Coordinator: Seetharam Chadalavada, MD (he/him/his) – University of Cincinnati | UC Health

    Office-based Procedures

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Radioembolization: The Modern Era

    Coordinator: Ammar Sarwar, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – Harvard Medical School / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Coordinator: Beau Toskich, MD, FSIR – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

    Interventional Oncology

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    SIR Nerve Block Bootcamp 2024

    Coordinator: David Valenti, MD, FSIR – McGill University Health Center

    Coordinator: Jason Wong, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre

    Pain Management/MSK

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Bone and Soft Tissue Interventions

    Coordinator: Sean Tutton, MD (he/him/his) – UCSD HEALTH

    Coordinator: Brandon M. Key, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Pain Management/MSK

  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM MT
    Venous Interventions Around the World: How do I do it in my country?

    Coordinator: Christoph A. Binkert, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – Kantonsspital Winterthur

    Co-Coordinator: Gerard J. O'Sullivan, MD (he/him/his) – University Hospital Galway

    Venous Interventions

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM MT
    HOW: Interventional Oncology (IO): Ablation

    Coordinator: John R. Kachura, MD, FRCPC, FSIR – University of Toronto

    Interventional Oncology

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM MT
    HOW: MSK Therapies & Advanced Pain Management

    Coordinator: John B. Smirniotopoulos, MD – MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    Coordinator: Junjian Huang, MD – UAB Heersink School of Medicine

    Workshop Panelist: Douglas Beall, MD, FSIR – Comprehensive Specialty Care

    Workshop Panelist: George Zlotchenko, MD – University of Colorado

    Workshop Panelist: Amit Gupta, MD, FSIR – The Ohio State University

    Workshop Panelist: Felix M. Gonzalez, MD – AdventHealth radiology group

    Workshop Panelist: Nariman Nezami, MD (he/him/his) – Georgetown University Medical Center

    Workshop Panelist: Moutasem Aljundi, MD – Medstar Health

    Pain Management/MSK

  • 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM MT
    Refreshment break, visit Expo and attend corporate events
  • 9:45 AM – 3:15 PM MT
    Expo open
  • 9:45 AM – 3:15 PM MT
    Interventional Pain Skills Lab (Presented by Medtronic)
  • 9:45 AM – 3:15 PM MT
    Simulation of IO, PAD, MSK/Pain, Men's/Women's Health, Neuro, Renal, and Venous Interventions (provided by Mentice)
  • 9:50 AM – 10:20 AM MT
    Publishing A Book…What I Wish I Knew

    Coordinator: Kumar Madassery, MD – Rush University Medical Center, Rush Oak Park

    Panelist: Ziv J. Haskal, MD (he/him/his) – Univ of Virginia

    Panelist: J. David Prologo, MD – Emory Interventional Radiology

  • 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM MT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session: Chemical Segmentectomy: Next-Gen BPH and Tumor Treatment (Presented by inTUMO Therapeutics)
  • 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM MT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session: Introducing the Latest Innovation in Packing Coils: AZUR HYDROPACK™ (Presented by Terumo Medical)
  • 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM MT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session: TheraSphere Y90: Driving Dosimetry with “RPM” (Presented by Boston Scientific)
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM MT
    Film Panel Plenary Session and JVIR Awards recognition

    General IR

  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT
    SIR Foundation PhD/Scientist Committee (per invitation only)
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MT
    International Scholars Hackathon/Lunch (per invitation only)
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MT
    Lunch, exhibits and corporate symposia
  • 12:10 PM – 12:50 PM MT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session: Steerable Vertebral Augmentation & RF Ablation In An Office Setting (Presented by Merit Medical)
  • 12:10 PM – 12:50 PM MT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session: The role of variable isotherms in palliative intervention: Fitting the VProbe into your clinical workflow (Presented by Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company)
  • 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM MT
    Corporate Expo Theater w/Lunch: Evolution of Venous Treatment: My Past vs. Present Algorithm (Presented by BD)
  • 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM MT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium No Fibers? No Problem Penumbra's Peripheral Embolization Platform with Mechanical Occlusion Technology (Presented by Penumbra)
  • 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM MT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium: From RCTs, to real world, to big data. Moving forward with Drug Eluting Technologies for PAD (Presented by Boston Scientific)
  • 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM MT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium: Sizing For Success with Shockwave IVL (Presented by Shockwave Medical)
  • 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM MT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium: Unlocking the Potential of Embolotherapy in Pelvic Pathologies (Presented by Medtronic)
  • 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM MT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium: Venous and arterial intervention essentials: A panel discussion on the importance of advanced imaging and specialized treatment options (Presented by Philips)
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Advanced IVC Filter Retrieval and Practice Strategy

    Coordinator: William Kuo, MD – Stanford University Medical Center

    Coordinator: Jennifer Montgomery, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic

    Venous Interventions

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Head and Neck Interventions

    Coordinator: Joseph J. Gemmete, MD, FSIR – Radiology, Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Otolaryngology Michigan Medicine

    Coordinator: Sten Solander, MD (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina

    Neurointerventional Radiology

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Below the Knee Disease Management

    Coordinator: Robert E. Beasley, MD (he/him/his) – Palm Vascular Centers of Coral Gables

    Coordinator: Mark L. Lessne, MD, FSIR – Charlotte Radiology

    Arterial Interventions and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Complications Related to Prostatic Artery Embolization: Why and How to Manage

    Coordinator: Riad Salem, MD, FSIR, MBA – Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    Coordinator: Samdeep Mouli, MD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin

    Men's Health

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Implantable Devices for Spasticity, Oncologic Pain, and Chronic Non-malignant Pain

    Coordinator: Douglas Beall, MD, FSIR – Comprehensive Specialty Care

    Coordinator: Neil J. Resnick, MD, FSIR – UMass Chan Medical School

    Pain Management/MSK

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    The ABC’s of OBL

    Coordinator: Mike Watts, MD, FSIR – Atlantic Medical Imaging

    Coordinator: Warren Swee, MD – Palm Vascular Delray

    Office-based Procedures

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Lymphatic intervention from neck to groin

    Coordinator: Seung Kwon Kim, MD, FSIR, MBA (he/him/his) – Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Coordinator: Saebeom Hur, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Seoul National University Hospital

    Nonvascular Interventions

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Portal hypertension angio-club workshop: Amazing Cases

    Coordinator: Hassan Anbari, MD – Vascular and Interventional Radiology/University of Michigan

    Coordinator: Bartley Thornburg, MD – Northwestern University

    Portal Hypertension

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Vascular Malformations – Approach and Treatment in Challenging Locations

    Coordinator: Kyung Rae Kim, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    Coordinator: Gulraiz Chaudry, MBChB, FRCR, FSIR – Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    Pediatric Interventions

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    When A Good Time Goes Bad

    Coordinator: Timothy W.I Clark, MD, MS – University of Pennsylvania

    Coordinator: Luke R. Wilkins, MD, FSIR – University of Virginia

    Arterial Interventions and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Data for Endovascular Therapy for Acute Pulmonary Embolism

    Coordinator: Robert A. Lookstein, MD – Mount Sinai Hospital

    Venous Interventions

  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM MT
    Interventional Oncology Around the world

    Coordinator: Yasuaki Arai, MD, FSIR – National Cancer Center Hospital

    Coordinator: Thierry De Baere, MD – Gustave Roussy Cancer Center

    Interventional Oncology

  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM MT
    Refreshment break, visit Expo and attend corporate events
  • 2:40 PM – 3:00 PM MT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session: Access; The Good To Know And The Must To Know (Presented by Merit Medical)
  • 2:40 PM – 3:00 PM MT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session: Advancing VTE Patient Care Through Evidence and Innovation (Presented by Inari Medical)
  • 2:40 PM – 3:10 PM MT
    From the Bedside to the Beltway… Advocacy Actions that Impact IR

    Coordinator: Jay H. Shah, MD – Emory University School of Medicine

    Panelist: Alok Bhatt, MD – Kaiser Permanente physician

    Panelist: Alexandra Fairchild, MD (she/her/hers) – LSU Health

    Panelist: Kamal Morar, MD, MBA – Morar Medical

    Panelist: Ammar Sarwar, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – Harvard Medical School / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    HOW: Venous Thromboembolic Interventions & Management

    Coordinator: Rex M. Pillai, MD (he/him/his) – UC Davis Medical Center

    Venous Interventions

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    HOW: Women’s & Men’s Health

    Coordinator: Keith Pereira, MD, DABR, RPVI – Saint Louis University

    Women's and Men's Health

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    Practice Development 2

    Moderator: Warren Swee, MD – Palm Vascular Delray

    Moderator: Robert K. Ryu, MD – University of Colorado

    Practice Development

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    Pain-MSK; Miscellaneous

    Moderator: J. Dana Dunleavy, MD – Atlas Interventional Radiology (AIR)

    Moderator: Brandon M. Key, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Pain Management/MSK

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    Portal Hypertension; TIPS

    Moderator: Hector Ferral, MD (he/him/his) – Louisiana State University

    Moderator: Khashayar Farsad, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health and Science University

    Portal Hypertension

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    Liver Locoregional 2

    Moderator: Jordan Tasse, MD – Rush University Medical Center

    Moderator: Resmi Charalel, MD, MPH – Weill Cornell Medicine

    Interventional Oncology

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    AI in IR

    Moderator: Younes Jahangiri, MD – Corewell Health West Michigan

    Moderator: Robert A. Lookstein, MD – Mount Sinai Hospital

    General IR

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    GU Interventions 2

    Moderator: John Do, MD – University of California San Diego

    Moderator: Gordon McLennan, MD (he/him/his) – Interventional Innovations Consulting, LLC

    Interventional Oncology

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    Venous interventions 2

    Moderator: Vivian Bishay, MD – Mount Sinai Hospital System

    Moderator: Gloria Salazar, MD (she/her/hers) – UNC

    Venous Interventions

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    JVIR: Trials, Abstracts, and What It Takes to Publish an Award-Winning Article

    Moderator: Daniel Y. Sze, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University; Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

    Moderator: Shellie Josephs, MD – Texas Childrens Austin; Baylor College of Medicine

    General IR

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    IR Miscellaneous

    Moderator: Thierry De Baere, MD – Gustave Roussy Cancer Center

    Moderator: Rahul A. Sheth, MD – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    General IR

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    Dialysis Interventions

    Moderator: Ahmed K. Abdel Aal, MD, PhD – University of Texas Health Science Center

    Moderator: David Tabriz, MD, RPVI – Cleveland Clinic Florida

    Renal and GU Interventions

  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM MT
    Embolization 2

    Moderator: Preston Eiswirth, MD – SPS Radiology/Intermountain Health

    Moderator: Charles Ray, Jr., MD, PhD – University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences Center

    Embolization

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    Resource needs and human capital to sustain institutional preclinical/translational IR research

    Coordinator: Govind Srimathveeravalli, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Massachusetts

    Coordinator: David Woodrum, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic

    Panelist: Sanjay Misra, MD – Mayo Clinic & Foundation

    Panelist: Rahmi Oklu, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic Arizona

    Panelist: Rahul A. Sheth, MD – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    General IR

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    Real PE

    Coordinator: Robert A. Lookstein, MD – Mount Sinai Hospital

    Panelist: Julie C. Bulman, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

    Panelist: Daniel A. Leung, MD, FSIR – Christiana Care Health Services

    Panelist: John M. Moriarty, FSIR, MBBS (he/him/his) – UCLA

    Panelist: Lisa Rauschert, MD – Rush University Medical Center

    General IR

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    Friend or Foe: OBLs in Academics

    Coordinator: David Mauro, MD – UNC

    Coordinator: David C. Sperling, MD, FSIR – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Panelist: Robert P. Liddell, MD, FSIR – The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Panelist: David Mauro, MD – UNC

    Panelist: David C. Sperling, MD, FSIR – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Panelist: Jessie K. Stewart, MD (she/her/hers) – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

    Practice Development

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    Healthcare Disparities in IR

    Coordinator: William Alago, Jr., MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Panelist: William Alago, Jr., MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Panelist: Elizabeth Ann Ignacio, MD – Hawaii Medical Association

    Panelist: Vishal Kumar, Associate Professor – UCSF / ZSFG

    Panelist: Premal Trivedi, MD, MS – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center

    Panelist: Abhishek Kumar, MD – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

    General IR

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    EMBOLIZE

    Coordinator: Gloria Salazar, MD (she/her/hers) – UNC

    Panelist: Kush Desai, MD FSIR (he/him/his) – Northwestern University

    Panelist: Neil Khilnani, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine-NY Presbyterian Hospital

    Panelist: Lindsay Machan, MD, FSIR – University of British Columbia

    Panelist: Mark H. Meissner, MD (he/him/his) – University of Washington

    Panelist: James Spies, MD – Georgetown

    General IR

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    IR can survive as an independent clinical practice: Yes or No?

    Coordinator: John Kaufman, MD, FSIR – Dotter Interventional Institute OHSU/Cook Medical

    Coordinator: Luke Sewall, MD, RPVI – VIRchicago.com

    Panelist: Bulent Arslan, MD, FSIR – Rush University Medical Center

    Panelist: Shivank Bhatia, MD – University of Miami

    Panelist: Michael D. Dake, MD (he/him/his) – University of Arizona

    Panelist: Maureen Kohi, MD (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Panelist: Mike Watts, MD, FSIR – Atlantic Medical Imaging

    General IR

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    Mentorship and sponsorship for WIR

    Coordinator: Paula Novelli, MD, FSIR (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Interventional Radiology Division

    Panelist: Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, MD, FSIR – University of California

    Panelist: Claire Kaufman, MD – Oregon Health & Science University

    Panelist: Ethel Rivas Zuleta, MD – Isss

    General IR

  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM MT
    JVIR Editors' Workshop Tue

    Coordinator: Daniel Y. Sze, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University; Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

    Panelist: Khashayar Farsad, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health and Science University

    Panelist: A. Kyle Jones, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Panelist: Shellie Josephs, MD – Texas Childrens Austin; Baylor College of Medicine

    Panelist: R. Peter Lokken, MD, MPH, FSIR (he/him/his) – UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

    Panelist: Ammar Sarwar, MD, FSIR (he/him/his) – Harvard Medical School / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    General IR

  • 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM MT
    Corporate Dinner: Histotripsy: Transforming Liver Tumor Treatment Today and in the Future (Presented by HistoSonics)
  • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM MT
    A Night of Innovation at Merit Medical HQ (Presented by Merit Medical)
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM MT
    Corporate Reception: Fire & Frost Fest (Presented by Medtronic)