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SIR 2025

General IR
Session Type: Symposium

SIR Global Society Summit: IR Global Educational Discrepancies Impacting IR workforce and Awareness

Saturday, March 29, 2025
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
Location: Music City Center, 101 AB

The SIR Global IR Summit will provide the podium to our global strategic Societal partners. This strategic forum is meant to give an overview of IR training and certification in each region. The goal is for Interventional Radiologists worldwide to coordinate efforts and discuss possible collaboration efforts to strengthen the profession and improve patient-centered care through image-guided therapy by optimizing minimally invasive patient care. We will spend the first hour on presentations to give a global overview of IR education and the last hour in discussion.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about the status of IR Education around the world
  • Learn about the challenges of IR recruitment around the world.
  • Learn about the aspirations of IR around the world.

Presentations:

  • 3:00 PM – 3:05 PM CT
    Welcome and introductions

    Coordinator: Justin J. Guan, MD – Cleveland Clinic

    Coordinator: Shams Iqbal, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Coordinator: Constantinos T. Sofocleous, MD PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

  • 3:06 PM – 3:13 PM CT
    Society of African Interventional Radiology & Endovascular therapy (SAFIRE)

    Speaker: Wael Saad, MD – University of Utah

  • 3:14 PM – 3:21 PM CT
    Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR)

    Speaker: Shyamkumar Nidugala Keshava, FRANZCR, MBBS (he/him/his) – Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

  • 3:22 PM – 3:29 PM CT
    Society For Interventional Radiology in Australia and NZ (IRSA)

    Speaker: Warren Clements, FRANZCR, MBBS – Alfred Hospital and Monash University

  • 3:30 PM – 3:37 PM CT
    Chinese College of Interventionalists (CCI)

    Speaker: Gao-Jun Teng, MD, FSIR – Zhong-Da Hospital, Southeast University

  • 3:38 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology (CAIR)

    Speaker: Alessandra Cassano-Bailey, MD – Health Sciences Center Winnipeg

  • 3:46 PM – 3:53 PM CT
    Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (ASPCVIR)

    Speaker: Kiang Hiong Tay, FSIR, MBBS – Singapore General Hospital

  • 3:54 PM – 4:01 PM CT
    La Sociedad Iberoamericana de Intervencionismo (SIDI)

    Speaker: Ethel G. Rivas Zuleta, MD (she/her/hers) – Iberoamerican Society of Interventional Radiology

  • 4:02 PM – 4:09 PM CT
    The Korean Society of Interventional Radiology (KSIR)

    Speaker: Ji Hoon Shin, MD, PhD – Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan

  • 4:10 PM – 4:17 PM CT
    Brazilian Society of Interventional Radiology and Endovascular Surgery (SOBRICE)

    Speaker: Marília de Brito Abath, MD (she/her/hers) – SOBRICE

  • 4:18 PM – 4:25 PM CT
    Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology (JSIR)

    Speaker: Koichiro Yamakado, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Radiology, Hyogo Medical University

  • 4:26 PM – 4:33 PM CT
    Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE)

    Speaker: Philippe L. Pereira, MD, PhD – SLK Kliniken GmbH

  • 4:34 PM – 4:41 PM CT
    Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)

    Speaker: Robert Lewandowski, MD – Northwestern University, Dept. of Radiology, IR section

  • 4:42 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Summary

    Moderator: Robert A. Morgan, MD, FSIR – St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George's University of London

    Moderator: Parag J. Patel, MD, FSIR, MS – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Moderator: Alda Tam, MD, FSIR – MD Anderson Cancer Center