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Scott C. Goodwin, M.D., FSIR, Begins Term as SIR President; New Executive Council Members Named During SIR's 38th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scott C. Goodwin, M.D., FSIR, an interventional radiologist and Hasso Brothers professor and chair of the department of radiological sciences at the University of California, Irvine, assumed office as the 2013-14 president of the Society of Interventional Radiology during SIR's...

Registration open for 38th Annual Scientific Meeting April 13-18 in New Orleans; advanced registration deadline March 8 FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Online meeting registration is open for the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting April 13-18 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100127/SIRLOGO) "The meeting's theme, 'IR Reaching Out,' illustrates the many ways the...

Society of Interventional Radiology publishes guidelines that capture consensus on clinical practice of intra-arterial stroke revascularization, recommend national stroke outcomes registry FAIRFAX, Va., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first outcome-based guidelines for interventional treatment of acute ischemic stroke--providing recommendations for rapid treatment--will benefit individuals suffering from brain attacks, often caused by artery-blocking blood clots....

AMSTERDAM and FARNHAM, England, September 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Launch of collaboration marked with development of new treatment protocol for trans-arterial embolization in hypervascular tumors Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and Biocompatibles, a BTG international group company, announced a collaboration to advance the use of image guidance to control the delivery of beads during the arterial embolization of hypervascularized tumors today at the...

WESTMINSTER, Colo., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- European regulators have approved Surefire Medical's Surefire Infusion System, a next generation device for chemo- and radioembolization procedures. The Colorado-based medical device company today announced that it is launching this product in the European market immediately. "Surefire Medical developed this ground-breaking technology to provide interventional radiologists with improved embolization certainty during their...

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CentraState Medical Center has begun a week-long training program for physicians from China on comprehensive imaging and interventional techniques for diagnosing breast cancer. A group of physicians is training with internationally distinguished interventional radiologist Ken Tomkovich, MD, medical director of Interventional Radiology at CentraState and with Freehold Radiology Group. (Photo:...

Foundation Also Announces Leaders in Innovation, Gary J. Becker Young Investigator and Resident/Medical Student Awards FAIRFAX, Va., April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- John A. Kaufman, M.D., FSIR, a professor and Frederick S. Keller Chair of Interventional Radiology at the Dotter Interventional Institute in Portland, Ore., delivered the 2012 Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecture on Monday, March 26 at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San...

JVIR Editor's Awards for 2011 Outstanding Clinical Research and Outstanding Laboratory Investigation Articles Presented During Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology--the Society of Interventional Radiology's flagship publication--together with the SIR Foundation presented the 2011 JVIR Editor's Award for Outstanding Clinical Research Paper to...

Honorees Kyung J. Cho, M.D., FSIR; Dimitris Kelekis, M.D., FSIR and Louis G. Martin, M.D., FSIR, Ensure Future of Interventional Radiology by Advancing Quality of Medicine and Patient Care SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kyung J. Cho, M.D., FSIR; Dimitris Kelekis, M.D., Ph.D., FSIR, and Louis G. Martin, M.D., FSIR, were each awarded SIR's Gold Medal, an honor given to those who have helped ensure the future of interventional radiology by advancing the...

Marshall E. Hicks, M.D., FSIR, Begins Term as SIR President; New Executive Council Members Named During SIR's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Marshall Hicks, M.D., FSIR, head of the division of diagnostic imaging at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, assumed office as the 2012-13 president of the Society of Interventional Radiology during its 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San...