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Society of Interventional Radiology Presents Highest Honors
Local interviews are available by contacting SIR's communications department staff: Ellen Acconcia, SIR website and communications manager, eacconcia@SIRweb.org, (703) 460-5582, or Maryann Verrillo, SIR director of communications and public relations, mverrillo@SIRweb.org, (703) 460-5572.
SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Society of
Interventional Radiology will present its highest honor, the SIR Gold
Medal, to Michael D. Dake, M.D., FSIR; Matthew A. Mauro, M.D., FSIR;
and Lenny K. Tan, M.D., FSIR, on March 25, during its 39th Annual
Scientific Meeting in San Diego. The Gold Medal acknowledges
distinguished and extraordinary service to SIR or to the discipline of
interventional radiology.
"These three interventional radiologists each embody and reflect the
limitless potential of our medical specialty," said SIR President
Scott C. Goodwin, M.D., FSIR, who represents nearly 5,000 doctors,
scientists and allied health professionals dedicated to improving
health care through image-guided, minimally invasive treatments.
"These dedicated doctors have explored uncharted avenues of treatment
to benefit patients, researched unique ways of using proven
interventional radiology techniques to treat in new and effective ways
and worked tirelessly to spread the message of interventional
radiology to a worldwide audience," added Goodwin, who is an
interventional radiologist and Hasso Brothers professor and chair of
the department of radiological sciences at the University of
California, Irvine.
Since 2008, Michael D. Dake, M.D., FSIR, has been the Thelma and Henry
Doelger Professor in Stanford University's department of
cardiovascular surgery and the medical director of the Stanford
catheterization and angiography laboratories. His current research is
focused primarily on endovascular device development, vascular biology
and molecular imaging.
From 2005-08, Dake was the chair of the department of radiology and
the Harrison Distinguished Medical Teaching Professor of Radiology at
the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. Dake
joined Stanford in 1990 as section chief of cardiovascular and
interventional radiology and co-director of the catheterization and
angiography laboratories. During this period, Dake and his team
published seminal research on the use of stent-grafts for the
treatment of aortic pathologies, which dramatically changed the way
physicians today manage thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.
Matthew A. Mauro, M.D., FSIR, is the Ernest H. Wood Distinguished
Professor of Radiology, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, and chair
of the department of radiology at the University of North Carolina
(UNC) Medical Center. He is the chair of the department of radiology
and professor of surgery and biomedical engineering at the UNC School
of Medicine and UNC Hospitals, where he has spent his entire academic
career.
An early proponent of an expanded role for interventional radiology in
venous access, endovascular therapy of aortic aneurysms and oncologic
interventions, Mauro's textbook, "Image-Guided Interventions," is a
standard reference in the field. Mauro has served as president of the
Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (now SIR) and
chair of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Research and
Education Foundation (now SIR Foundation).
Lenny K. Tan, M.D., FSIR, emeritus consultant in the diagnostic
imaging department at National University Hospital (NUH) Singapore (an
academic medical center formed by the amalgamation of the Medical
School and the National University Hospital), has had a major role in
the development of interventional radiology in Asia.
Instrumental in the establishment of interventional radiology in the
Asia-Pacific region, Tan was the first radiologist to introduce a
comprehensive service in interventional radiology in the 1970s at
Singapore General Hospital. Tan was the first full professor of
radiology ever appointed by the National University of Singapore (NUS)
in 1990. In addition to introducing to Singapore treatments and
techniques pivotal to the field of interventional radiology-such as
the CT scan and advancements in interventional oncology-over his
decades in practice, Tan has also trained scores of interventional
radiology residents and fellows.
More information about the Society of Interventional Radiology,
finding an interventional radiologist in your area and minimally
invasive treatments can be found online at www.SIRweb.org. To learn
about the 39th Annual Scientific Meeting, which is being held March
22-27 in San Diego, visit www.SIRmeeting.org.
About the Society of Interventional Radiology Interventional
radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive,
targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the
least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and
clinical experience across all specialties. Using X-ray, MRI and other
imaging to advance a catheter in the body, such as in an artery, they
treat disease at the source internally. As the inventors of
angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in
the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional
radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine. Many
conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invasively
by interventional radiologists. Interventional radiology treatments
offer less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open
surgery. Visit www.SIRweb.org. Follow SIR on Facebook and Twitter and
use #SIR2014 to keep up with news from SIR 2014, which is being held
March 22-27 in San Diego.
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