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Educational program

Educational program

  • Sunday, March 30, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Vascular Malformations The Basics
    Coordinator: Brian Funaki, MD, FSIR – University of Chicago
    Embolization
  • 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
    Coordinator: Bradford J. Wood, MD, FSIR – NIH
    General IR
  • 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 Oncology
  • 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 Oncology
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Soup to Nuts: Building a Pain Practice and Regional Blocks
    Coordinator: Junjian Huang, MD – UAB Heersink School of Medicine
    Coordinator: Shantanu Warhadpande, MD – University of Michigan Medical Center
    Pain Management/MSK
  • 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, FSIR – Radiology, Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Otolaryngology Michigan Medicine
    Neurointerventional Radiology
  • 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 & Interventional Physicians, Brevard Physician Associates
    Office-based Procedures
  • 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 – UCLA
    Venous Interventions
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Women’s Health in the Pelvis Beyond Fibroids
    Coordinator: Claire Kaufman, MD – Oregon Health & Science University
    Coordinator: Nicole Lamparello, MD – New York-Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical College
    Women's Health
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Advanced Skills Workshop for Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Arterial (Crossing and Re-Entry, Closure)
  • 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CT
    Poster Hall open
  • 9:15 AM – 3:15 PM CT
    Expo open
  • 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Refreshment break, visit Expo and attend corporate events
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Opening Plenary Session with Gold Medalists, Leader in Innovation Awards and Dotter Lecture
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    International Scholars Panel/Lunch (per invitation only)
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Lunch, exhibits and corporate symposia
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Nurse Practitioners (NP) and Physician Assistants (PA) Section Lunch
  • 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Corporate Expo Theater w/Lunch (Presented by Medtronic - PVH)
  • 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium (Presented by BD)
  • 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium (Presented by Boston Scientific)
  • 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium (Presented by Penumbra, Inc.)
  • 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium (Presented by Stryker Interventional Spine)
  • 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Corporate Lunch Symposium (Presented by Terumo Medical Corporation TIS)
  • 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 Interventions
  • 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 Health Center
    Embolization
  • 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 – Vascular and Interventional Radiology
    Gastrointestinal Interventions
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Genitourinary Potpourri and M&M: How to manage complications in difficult cases
    Coordinator: Quinn Meisinger, MD – UC San Diego
    Coordinator: Keith Quencer, MD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health Sciences University
    General IR
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Preventing IR complications through imaging review
    Coordinator: Olga Brook, MD, MBA, FSIR, FSAR – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Coordinator: Elika Kashef, MD – Imperial College NHS Trust
    Imaging
  • 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,M.Sc. (he/him/his) – UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Interventional Oncology
  • 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, ABWM (he/him/his) – Vascular and Interventional Experts
    Office-based Procedures
  • 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: Marianne Brodmann, MD – Medical University of Graz
    PAD/Arterial Interventions
  • 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 – University of Kentucky College of Medicine
    Portal Hypertension
  • 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Live Ultrasound in Comprehensive Venous Care -- Iliac Obstruction, Iliac Compression, Renal Compression, and Ovarian Reflux
    Coordinator: Ronald Winokur, MD – Weill Cornell Medical College
    Co-Coordinator: Nicos Labropoulos, PhD – Vascular Surgery Stony Brook University
    Venous Interventions
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Refreshment break, visit Expo and attend corporate events
  • 2:35 PM – 2:55 PM CT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session (Presented by Boston Scientific)
  • 2:35 PM – 2:55 PM CT
    Corporate In-Expo, In-Booth Session (Presented by Medtronic Pain Therapies)
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Embolics and Delivery Systems (Radioactive, Drug-Eluting, and Bland)
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Dialysis Access (EndoAVF, Maintenance Balloons, Stents)
  • 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM CT
    ECS: Trailblazing Insights: Learning from the Pioneers in Interventional Radiology

    Coordinator: Merve Ozen, MD – University of Kentucky College of Medicine

    Coordinator: Thomas Tullius, MD – University Medical Center, El Paso, Texas

  • 5:45 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Medical Student, Resident and International Scholars Reception
  • 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM CT
    SIR Foundation 2025 Gala