Search Results

Dr. Alda L. Tam Named SIR President for 2023-2024

March 8, 2023—The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) announced incoming officers of its 2023-2024 Board of Directors during the society’s annual Members’ Business Meeting held at SIR 2023, its annual scientific meeting on March 4-9, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona.

SIR Launches Mobile Application to Access Guidelines and Statements

April 1, 2021—The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has launched the SIR Guidelines app as a source for the society’s published guidelines and statements.

SIR Names New Leadership and 22 New Fellows

June 14, 2022—The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) announced that Parag J. Patel, MD, an interventional radiologist and Professor of Radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, assumed the office of SIR President during the society’s annual members’ business meeting during the SIR 2022 annual scientific meeting held June 11-16 in Boston, Massachusetts.

SIR Names Dr. Robert J. Lewandowski as President for 2024-2025

March 26, 2024—The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) announced that Robert J. Lewandowski, MD, assumed the office of president of the society for the 2024-2025 term. Dr. Lewandowski is an interventional radiologist (IR) and professor at Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

SIR Position Statement Outlines Appropriate Use of Endovascular Management for Treatment of Chronic Iliofemoral Venous Occlusions

July 5, 2023—The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) recently announced publication of a new position statement offering recommendations on the management of chronic iliofemoral venous obstruction with endovascular placement of metallic stents.

PAD Pulse Alliance Survey Highlights Disconnect in Public Knowledge of PAD Risks

February 28, 2024—The Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI), Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), and Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), which have joined together as the PAD Pulse Alliance, announced the “Get a Pulse on PAD” public awareness initiative.