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Dr. Murugesan Manoharan, M.D., FRACS , is a urologic oncologist and the chief of urologic oncology surgery at Miami Cancer Institute. Dr. Manoharan specializes in the treatment of genitourinary cancers, including bladder, kidney, prostate and testicular cancer. Dr. Manoharan also serves as the chairman of the Department of Urology at Baptist Health South Florida and a professor of urology at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University.Dr. Manoharan is a renowned leader in the treatment of prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer and other urologic malignancies.
Dr. Manoharan’s research interests include stem cell applications, biomarkers and cancer outcomes. He serves as an editorial reviewer for several scientific publications. He is also widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals and is an invited speaker at national and international scientific symposiums. Dr. Manoharan has authored more than 140 scientific articles and 15 textbook chapters and has presented papers and posters at more than 100 national and international meetings. He served as vice chairman and a member of the International Bladder Cancer Guidelines committee, organized by the WHO and Société Internationale d’Urologie.
Yilun Koethe, MD, RPVI is an assistant professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. Her focus is on genicular artery embolization and interventional oncology, with a focus on tumor ablation.
Dr. Andrew Scott Niekamp is a Vascular Interventional Radiologist with Radiology Associates of South Florida and joined the group in July of 2020. He currently practices at Baptist Hospital of Miami, South Miami Hospital and Doctors Hospital.
A native of Ohio, Dr. Niekamp received his undergraduate degree and medical degree from The Ohio State University. He then went on to complete his residency training in diagnostic radiology at the University of Texas at Houston/M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.
Dr. Niekamp’s interests are in the diagnosis, treatment and management of peripheral arterial disease, venous disease, aortic disease as well as hepatobiliary disease. He is active in clinical research and has published numerous papers encompassing many different aspects of interventional radiology. Dr. Niekamp is also an active member in the Society of Interventional Radiology and has given multiple research and educational podium presentations throughout both North America and Europe.
Dr. Malcolm M. Bilimoria is a general surgeon in Arlington Heights, Illinois and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Amita Health Elk Grove Village and Amita Health Adventist Medical Center-Hinsdale. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Dr. Rony Avritscher is an Associate Professor and co-chair of the pre-clinical research program in the Department of Interventional Radiology. Dr. Avritscher earned his medical degree from the University of Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He completed his radiology residency at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and Interventional Radiology Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center and subsequently joined the faculty in 2006. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Interventional Radiology.
Prof. Dr. Tze Min Wah
MSc (Birmingham, UK), PhD (Leeds, UK)
MB ChB (Leeds, UK), FRCR (UK), CCST (UK), , EBIR (CIRSE), FHEA (UK), Pg. Cert. Clin. Ed. (Leeds, UK)
Honorary Professor and Consultant Radiologist
Clinical Lead for Interventional Oncology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT)
Interventional radiologist with specialist interest in both imaging and Interventional Oncology (IO) treatments. IO is the 4th pillar of cancer care alongside surgical, clinical and medical oncology. Since 2003, she has led and developed the IO programme at LTHT using various technologies e.g. radiofrequency (RFA), microwave ablation (MWA), cryoablation (CRYO) and irreversible electroporation (IRE) for a range of cancers such as liver, lung, renal, pancreas, adrenal, spleen etc. Today, Leeds is one of the leading national and international IO centres with reputable clinical outcomes and provides a full complement of innovative technologies such as RFA, MWA, CRYO and IRE for cancer treatment. She is one of the pioneers and leading interventional radiologists in the UK with a vast amount of clinical experience in renal ablative therapy. She has participated in grant funding research and lectured extensively on IO related topic to help to promote awareness and providing mentoring schemes to many trainees and consultants in IO on global platform since 2003.
In addition, she is a passionate champion for female leadership and love to inspire more women into Interventional Radiology. She has strived to inspire all male and female IRs to help in closing the IR gender gap issue. She is keen to share the publication on IR Gender Gap work that she has collaborated with CIRSE in 2017 and published in CVIR 2018 titled- The Interventional Radiology (IR) Gender Gap: A Prospective Online Survey by the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the publication can be downloaded at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29789874.
Keith Quencer MD is an interventional radiologist at the University of Utah where he is an Assistant Professor and the associate section chief, fellowship director and the associate IR/DR program director. His main clinical focuses are renal ablation, adrenal vein sampling and IVC filter removal.
Constantino S. Peña, MD is an interventional radiologist at the Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute at Baptist Hospital in Miami Florida where he also serves as the Medical Director of Vascular Imaging. Dr. Peña earned his B.S. and M.S. from the Stanford University Department of Biology in Palo Alto, Calif., prior to earning his medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. He completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology in 1999 as well as a Vascular and Interventional fellowship in 2000 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. An educator, Dr. Peña is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Florida International University College of Medicine in Miami as well as a Collaborative Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. He is on the Annual Meeting Committee of the SIR. He has served as the Chair of the Cardiovascular Radiology & Intervention Council of the American Heart Association (AHA) and a board member of the IAC CT. He has served on several committees for many professional organizations, including the RADInfo Committee of the ACR and RSNA, the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) IO service line, and the Vascular and Interventional Subcommittee Scientific Program Committee (SPC) for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Dr. Peña is a fellow of the SIR, AHA, and SCCT.
Dr. Siddharth Padia is an Interventional Radiologist and Professor of Radiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also director of Interventional Radiology at UCLA Santa Monica. His areas of clinical expertise and research interests include liver cancer, interventional oncology, vascular disease and portal hypertension.
Hester J Scheffer, MD, PhD
Affiliation: Amsterdam UMC
Radiology Resident
Thesis: “Lightning Strikes – Irreversible electroporation in Interventional Oncology”. Obtained September 11th 2016, with honours.
William S. Rilling, MD FSIR is Professor of Radiology and Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and his Fellowship in Vascular Interventional Radiology at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1996. He has been practicing at the Medical College of Wisconsin since 1996 in the Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Dr. Rilling is also Vice Chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Radiology.
Dr. Rilling’s areas of interest include image guided therapy of a variety of cancers with an emphasis on liver cancer using chemoembolization, y-90 radioembolization, as well as local ablative strategies such as radiofrequency, microwave and cryoablation. Dr. Rilling has been active in patient care, research, and education in Interventional Oncology for over 15 years. As Education Counselor for the Society of Interventional Radiology, he co-directed the first three meetings to focus solely on IO beginning in 2001.
Dr. Rilling is active in many IO clinical trials and has a strong interest in showing cost effectiveness in IO therapies.
Charles W Nutting DO FSIR, Interventional Radiologist @ ECCO Medical, OBL based practice in Colorado.
Specializing in prostate embolization and Liver Directed Therapy in the Office-Based Setting.
Dr David M Liu MD is an Interventional Radiologist with the current appointments of Clinical Professor of Radiology at the University of British. He is board certified in both Canada and the US, and holds appointments at the Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia Hospital and the BC Cancer Agency with a cross appointment in the department of Surgery.
Dr Liu received his medical degree from University of Toronto, completed his radiology residency at University of British Columbia, and interventional radiology fellowship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and has practiced on both sides of the border. In addition to benchside and clinical research in the fields of novel embolic platforms, ablative technologies and cancer related thromboembolic disease. Dr Liu maintains an active clinical practice interventional oncology practise incorporating all aspects of embolization, ablation, venous access, and palliative therapy in all organ systems.
He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Symposium HPB Oncology at Whister (SHOW). He has presented internationally, authored book chapters, and publications relating to minimally invasive locoregional cancer therapy. He holds specific interest in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, and metastatic colorectal carcinoma and is actively involved in both translational research and clinical trials.
Nishita Kothary, MD, FSIR
Professor, Interventional Radiology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA
Clinical and Research Focus
Technology and Innovation
Healthcare Economics
Hepatocellular cancer genomics
Advanced imaging techniques
Rupesh Kotecha, M.D., is a board-certified radiation oncologist at Miami Cancer Institute. Dr. Kotecha is the Chief of Radiosurgery and has specialized training and experience in utilizing the latest techniques in radiation therapy treatment for both cancer and noncancerous conditions. His research background and clinical interests have primarily focused on the treatment of patients with stereotactic radiotherapy, including CyberKnife®, LINAC-based and GammaKnife® radiosurgery, and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) or stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR). He also specializes in advanced radiation therapy treatment techniques, including re-irradiation, proton beam radiotherapy, and MR-guided radiation therapy. He also has unique expertise in cardiac radiosurgery, an emerging non-invasive procedure for patients with cardiac arrhythmias. During medical school, Dr. Kotecha was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, an organization that recognizes excellence in scholarship and the profession of medicine. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international symposiums, and has published multiple book chapters and dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Cancer, and Practical Radiation Oncology. He is an editorial contributor on the topic of brain cancer for Practice Update, an online resource for healthcare providers throughout the United States and around the world.
Edward Kim MD, FSIR is Professor of Radiology and Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is Director of Interventional Oncology in the Division of Interventional Radiology. His clinical research has focused on the field of minimally invasive procedures for treatment of cancer. Through interdisciplinary collaboration with the division of liver transplantation and surgical oncology, numerous publications have been generated related to radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, transarterial chemoembolization, radioembolization and electromagnetic tracking for image guidance for the treatment of primary and metastatic liver cancer. Edward Kim participates in multi-center industry sponsored trials that study the use of novel devices for the treatment of liver cancer.
Adeel Kaiser, M.D., is a board-certified radiation oncologist at Miami Cancer Institute. He has expertise in the treatment of a number of solid tumor malignancies, with a special focus on genitourinary and gastrointestinal cancers. He also has significant experience in proton therapy dating back to 2008, when he served as an assistant professor at Loma Linda University Medical Center, the first clinical proton therapy center in the United States. At Miami Cancer Institute, Dr. Kaiser aims to provide patients with a personalized, integrative strategy for their cancer treatment by incorporating complementary therapies with radiation treatment.
Matthew S Johnson, MD FSIR is Professor of Radiology and Surgery, Gary J Becker Professor of Radiology Research, and Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, and Director of Interventional Oncology for Indiana University Health. He is the President of the Society of Interventional Radiology and and Co-Primary Investigator of the PRESERVE study, which is evaluating the safety and efficacy of IVC filters in the United States.
Dr. Jack Jennings is a Professor in the Department of Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and serves as the Chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology and Director of Musculoskeletal and Spine Intervention.
Dr. Jennings has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, review articles, and book chapters. He is an active manuscript reviewer for such journals as Radiology, American Journal of Radiology, Skeletal Radiology, Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology, American Journal of Neuroradiology and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology. He has done over 100 invited lectureships with the majority focusing on musculoskeletal and spine tumor ablation. He co-created the multi-disciplinary metastatic spine disease working group in Dallas 2014 composed of recognized experts in the fields of medical, radiation, and surgical oncology and interventional radiology which led to the published algorithms and recommendations for the treatment of metastatic spine disease, including percutaneous tumor ablation.
Dr. Jennings has presented at several national and international radiology and musculoskeletal/orthopedic society meetings, including ASSR, ASNR, ISS, SSR, RSNA, SIO, WFITN, ECIO, WOA, CIRSE, and APSCVIR. He is an active member in these societies including serving on Executive, Program, Clinical Practice, Nominating and Informatics Committees. Dr. Jennings main research interest lies in musculoskeletal and spine tumor ablation, bone and soft tissue biopsies, and osteoporotic and pathologic fracture treatment. He has been involved in multiple funded prospective studies and has been both the institutional and overall Principal Investigator on bone and spine tumor ablation trials. In addition, he has numerous scientific abstracts and presentations at national and international society meetings. Locally, he is actively involved in many multi-disciplinary tumor boards and hospital committees. Dr. Jennings is involved in many active therapeutic trials and has a long-term collaboration with medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists obtaining high quality bone and soft tissue biopsies to meet study requirements.
Medical School:
1994-1996 Georg-August-University of Göttingen
1996 University of Vienna, Austria
1996-2001 Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU)
1999 University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Profession:
01/2001- 03/2008 Resident, Department of Radiology, University of Munich; Germany; Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Maximilian F. Reiser
05/2007- 08/2007 Research Fellowship, Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
04/2008- 12/2010 Section Chief of Angiography and Interventional Radiology; Department of Radiology, University of Munich; Germany
05/2010 Associate Professor of Radiology
01/2011- present Head, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hospital Brothers of Charity, Munich
Research:
Minimal-invasive Tumortherapy
Radiofrequency ablation of primary and secondary liver tumors
Radiofrequency ablation of lung, kidney and soft tissue tumors
Radiofrequency of benign osseous tumors (Osteoidosteoma)
Vertebroplasty in osteoporotic vertebral fractures
Vertebroplasty / osteoplasty in tumoral osteolysis
Radioembolization of primary and secondary liver tumors
Publications:
95 authorships in national and international peer reviewed journals
• 23 first-authorships
• 67 co-authorships
• 5 last-authorships
10 book chapters:
• 4 first-authorship
• 6 co-authorship
Awards:
• European Radiology, “Most Cited Paper of Volume 12 (2002)”:
• ”Multislice helical CT of the heart with retrospective ECG gating: reduction of radiation exposure by ECG-controlled tube current modulation”
• ESGAR 2004: TOP 50 presenter
• ECR 2009: Winner of the “Rolf W. Günther Foundation for Radiological Science”
Editorial Board:
European Radiology
Reviewer
European Radiology (Eur Radiol)
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR)
Journal of CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR)
Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und bildgebenden Verfahren (RöFo)
Memberships:
German Roentgen Ray Society
RSNA
ESR
ESGAR
CIRSE
Dr Farah Gillan Irani, (MD, FRCR, FAMS) is Senior Consultant, and Deputy Head of the Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiologist at the Singapore General Hospital. She is also the Service Lead for IR at Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore.
After completing her basic Radiology training in India she obtained her fellowship training in Interventional Radiology in London UK and Toronto Canada. She practices the whole gamut of IR but has special interest in Interventional Oncology, hepato-biliary and Vascular IR.
Dr Irani is an active member of the local Radiology and Interventional Radiology community. In additional to her clinical practise, she is interested in Research and Education helping groom the future IRs of tomorrow.
Dr. Gervais completed her medical training at Tufts University School of Medicine and her residency in Diagnostic Radiology and fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and Intervention at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After a short stay in private practice, she returned to academics as a staff radiologist at Children’s Hospital Boston where her clinical focus was nonvascular interventional radiology. She returned to MGH in 1998 where she has served in numerours leedership positions including as Division Chief of Abdominal Imaging. She currently servers as Associate Chair for Clinical Compliance in the Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research areas of interest include percutaneous tumor ablation, nonvascular abdominal interventional radiology, and imaging for response assessment of oncologic therapies. She is an internationally known expert on the topic of renal tumor ablation and has written and lectured extensively on that topic.
Afshin Gangi, M.D., Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Dr. Afshin Gangi received his education in the International French School of Teheran, graduating in 1980. During the summer of 1980, he attended medical school at the University of Reims in France, receiving his Degree in 1987. He began his residency in Strasbourg in 1987, first in the intensive care unit and Pneumology where he became excited about imaging and moved to the imaging department. After his Residency in general radiology and Neuroradiology, he worked one year in Luxembourg with Professor R.F. Dondelinger in Interventional Radiology.
Dr. Gangi began his fellowship in Strasbourg in November 1991 in the department of Neuroradiology and MSK with special interest in percutaneous procedures. He performed his first vertebroplasty in 1989 during his residency and continued to develop image-guided procedures in interventional oncology, especially under CT-C arm fluoroscopy and MR guidance. In 1995, Dr. Gangi obtained his Ph.D. in Laser Physics in Strasbourg. During the same year, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the University Hospital of Strasbourg and he became a full Professor of Radiology in 2000. Since 2014, he is working in King’s college London for research in interventional oncology and HIFU as an invited Professor with Professor Andy Adam.
Prof Gangi holds numerous patents and is an author of more that 200 peer reviewed articles. He has more than 35 book chapters to his credit along with over 500 abstracts at numerous national and international conferences.
Currently, Dr. Gangi is the Chairman of Radiology and Nuclear medicine in the University Hospital and work in the department of Interventional Radiology, with a special interest in Interventional Oncology. He is actively involved in different international society and is the vice president of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE).
Richard S. Finn, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Hematology/ Oncology
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr Finn is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hematology/ Oncology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Director of the Signal Transduction Program in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA.
He currently splits his time between patient care and laboratory and clinical research. His research interests lie in the development of molecular targeted agents and biomarkers in liver cancer and breast cancer. Dr Finn has served as principal and sub-investigator in trials exploring the use of targeted therapies in breast and hepatocellular cancers. He has a particular interest in identifying predictive markers of response to novel therapeutics. His work has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Hepatology, Cancer Cell and elsewhere. Dr Finn has also given oral presentations at major meetings including American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), European Cancer Conference (ECCO/ ESMO), and the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) and others. An active cancer researcher, he has been involved in the development of several novel therapeutics in cancer medicine.
Dr Finn is a member of ASCO, American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) and the European Society of Medical Oncology. He and is on the editorial board of Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Hepatology, and Liver Cacner. He is a past-president of the International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA).
Dr. Callstrom is a Professor of Radiology and Chair for the Department of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His clinical and research foci are on image-guided intervention to treat cancer. In particular, Dr. Callstrom is an expert in the use of various ablation technologies for treating neoplasms in liver, lung, kidney, bone, and soft tissue. Research efforts include developing an understanding of the response of neoplastic cells to thermal injury, development of new imaging methods for improved tumor targeting, and involvement in clinical trials to understand efficacy of interventional oncologic treatments. Dr. Callstrom has a strong track record of collaborating with academic and industrial investigators. His involvement in education is mentoring Ph.D. students in experimental design and laboratory studies, as well as mentoring radiology residents and fellows in the medical graduate program.
Dr. Brown is Interventional Radiology Section Chief and Professor of Radiology at the University of Utah and works at both the Huntsman Cancer Center and University Hospital. For 26 years she was an Attending Radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she established a national as well as international reputation in the field of Interventional Oncology. She is a founding member of Society of Interventional Oncology and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of HPB. Her primary clinical focus has been on hepatobiliary intervention, with particular interest in local/regional therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). She is well known to be a proponent of using embolization with particles/microspheres alone as primary treatment for HCC and for secondary hypervascular liver tumors, including metastatic neuroendocrine tumor, as well as for benign lesions such as hepatic adenoma. Dr. Brown was the Primary Investigator on an NIH supported, prospective, randomized trial of trans-arterial treatment for HCC, the results of which were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in 2016. She has a special interest in biliary intervention and has been a strong advocate for percutaneous, rather than endoscopic, intervention with primary stent placement in cases of high bile duct obstruction. Dr. Brown led the weekly hepatobiliary disease management conference at MSKCC for years and continues to attend interdisciplinary conferences in her new position at the University of Utah in order to promote image guided intervention for patients with appropriate indications. Although Dr. Brown sees herself as a clinician educator, and considers sharing her experience with others at meetings, conferences and in the interventional suite as important for the exchange of ideas and the growth and development of the field, she sees her most important role as advocating for and taking care of patients at the University and Huntsman Cancer Center.
Chris Brace, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, and serves as the Assistant Dean for Graduate Affairs in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin — Madison. His expertise includes applications of elecromagnetics in medicine, microwave tissue heating, medical imaging, multiphysics simulation and translational medical device research. He has authored over 120 manuscripts and book chapters and regularly speaks at international conferences on these topics. He also holds over 20 patents and was a co-founder of NeuWave Medical. Dr. Brace is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society and Americal Society for Engineering Education.
a.o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med
Deputy Chairman Department of Radiology
Chief Division of Interventional Oncology / Microinvasive Therapy
Innsbruck Medical University
http://sip.i-med.ac.at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/reto-bale-a4265631/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Reto_Bale
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0021-5792
Academic career history:
Since 2020 Deputy Chairman Department of Radiology Innsbruck Medical University (Chair: E. Gizewski)
Since 2002 Chief Division of Interventional Oncology / Microinvasive Therapy at the Department of Radiology (Chairman: o.Univ.Prof. Dr. Werner Jaschke), Innsbruck Medical University
2002 Board Certification in „Diagnostic Radiology“
2002 Associate Professor of Radiology (Venia legendi)
1996- 2002 Resident in Radiology, University Hospital Innsbruck (Chairman: W. Jaschke)
1995 M.D.- University of Innsbruck, Medical School (A)
1992- 1995 Institute of Anatomy- University of Innsbruck (A)
1993 Prince Charles Hospital- Brisbane (AUS)
1990- 1991 Dissertation Institute of Pathology- University Hospital Innsbruck (A)
1989 Humana Hospital- West Palm Beach (USA)
1989- 1990 Institute of Histology and Embryology- University of Innsbruck (A)
Main research areas and previous research achievements:
Minimal invasive tumor therapy (Radiofrequency Ablation, Alcohol Instillation, Transarterial Chemoembolization, …)
Immobilization, Fixation, Motion artifacts
3D- Navigation, Computer- assisted Surgery, Computer- assisted Interventions, Frameless Stereotaxy, Computer -assisted stereotactic interventional brachytherapy, 3D- surgical planning
Targeting devices for Stereotaxy
Image Fusion: CT- MR- PET- SPECT- Ultrasound
Past research funding:
Österreichische Nationalbank ÖNB 12479: Entwicklung einer Ziel- und Pfadplanungs-Software für minimal-invasive 3 D-navigierte Punktionen EU 40000
MITIGATE FP7 (Nr. 602306) EU 372.800,00 (PI Prof Schönberg)
KM-HYPO, Visipaque- Study, GE Healthcare EU 20000 (PI Doz Widmann)
DOC Funds (FWF AUSTRIA) PhD Program: 2.7 M Euro (PI Prof. Gizwewski)
Additional Functions:
2005- Head of the Working Group “Technique and Innovation” from the Austrian Society of Radiology
2005- Advisory Board of “Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery”
2014-2016 President of the Austrian Society of Interventional Radiology (ÖGIR)
Dr. Abi-Jaoudeh is an American and Canadian board-certified vascular and interventional radiologist at the University of California Irvine. Dr. Abi-Jaoudeh earned her medical degree from the University of Montreal and completed internship and residency at the University of Laval in Québec, Canada a fellowship in interventional radiology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. She then joined National Institutes of Health where she was a principal and associate investigator on several human trials. She also completed multiple animal and translational studies. In 2015, Dr. Abi-Jaoudeh joined the University of California Irvine where she has grown the research program. In 2018, she became the director of Clinical research of the department of Radiology. She is principal investigator on multiple Phase I, II and III trials. In 2020, she became the section of IR at UCI.
Her clinical interests include minimally invasive image guided interventions, including but not limited to, vascular and non-vascular oncological interventions.
She has authored multiple manuscripts and submitted two patents related to imaging technology in the angiography suite. Her research interests include fusion and functional imaging during image guided procedures, innovative therapeutic methods to treat metastatic and primary liver disease. Her goal is to grow a translational research program to improve UCI patient care and outcome.
Dr Abi-Jaoudeh is a fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology, a member of the Royal Canadian College of Radiology and associate editor of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. She is also on the scientific committee of the Society of Interventional Radiology annual meeting and the SIR foundation board.
Dr Pierre De Marini is an interventional radiologist at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, France in the department of Pr Afshin Gangi. His research interests focus mainly on percutaneous ablative therapies, but his field of clinical interest covers a wide range of interventional procedure including endobiliary and endovascular treatments. He is also a member of the European Training Forum in the CIRSE which aims to promote interventional radiology among medical students.
After completing medical school at the University of Amsterdam he specialized in prostate cancer care through his PhD on focal therapy for localized prostate cancer with irreversible electroporation. He now combines clinical Urology at the Amsterdam UMC with a post doctorate research position at the Garvan Institute and St. Vincent’s Prostate Cancer Centre on various prostate cancer research lines involving multiparametric MRI, PSMA PET CT, immunology, focal therapy, robotic surgery and active surveillance.
Dr. Klevos is fellowship trained in both Breast Imaging and Interventional Radiology. She completed her Radiology residency and fellowships at the University of Miami. Upon the completion of her training, she served in an academic capacity as a faculty member at the University of Miami in Breast Imaging and as the Chief of Breast Interventional Oncology. She is double board certified by the American College of Radiology in Diagnostic Radiology and by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
She has authored and co-authored several peer reviewed journal articles in the fields of both Breast Imaging and Interventional Radiology. She is recognized for her published works in Image Guided Cryoablation of Breast Tumors, Breast Cancer, Treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer with DEBIRI and Irreversible electroporation (IRE) for pancreatic cancer. She is a graduate of the founding class of the PLA (Physician Leadership Academy-South Florida chapter) and has published articles on important topics like Physician Burnout and the ‘Business of Medicine’. Additionally, she has been an invited speaker in multiple national and international medical conferences in the fields of Breast Imaging and Interventional Radiology.
Her current research interest and passion is focused in the field of Breast Cancer and finding minimally invasive treatments to cure breast cancer including Cryoablation.
Assistant Professor of Radiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL
As an interventional radiologist, I use image guidance (x-rays, ultrasound, CT, PET, or MRI) to perform minimally invasive procedures. The images are used to direct tiny catheters, wires, and needles in order to diagnose and treat tumors. Using image guidance allows us to perform a wide variety of procedures without making large incisions, leading to shorter recovery times and fewer complications. We can also treat tumors by burning or freezing them (ablation) or clogging the arteries that supply them with different materials (embolization). Other procedures we perform include biopsies, opening an obstructed channel (for example, a vessel, a bile duct, or a ureter), or stopping a bleeding vessel.
I am also trained as a computational biologist, which means I develop, adapt, and apply algorithms from machine learning and information theory to biology. Some of my previous work focused on building mathematical models of biological networks such as gene networks and structural brain networks. Currently I am working on applying these same tools to analyzing genomic data from tumors to better predict and ultimately better tailor treatments to individual patients.
Dr. Bradford Wood directs a multi-disciplinary team (NIH Center for Interventional Oncology) that develops and translates devices, software, and navigation approaches for cancer patients via novel local and regional minimally-invasive image-guided therapies. Dr. Wood has directed the Interventional Radiology Research Lab from 2004 to present, and was Acting Co-Director of Radiology from 2006 to 2008. His research relies upon multi-disciplinary team science within multiple institutes and holds appointment in Radiology & Imaging Sciences in the CC, as well as the Urological Oncology Branch in NCI/CCR. He has received both the Clinical Center Director’s Award and the NIH Director’s Award, and has published widely in the field of Interventional Radiology and the emerging discipline in Interventional Oncology. The Center for Interventional Oncology translates technologies and paradigms for first in human treatments for cancer and cultivates interventional radiology applications within a muliti-disciplinary framework, to apply biomedical engineering to solve real-life clinical problems and patient care needs. His team’s achievements include helping to pioneer several technologies from concept to bench to patient, including prostate cancer MRI/TRUS fusion biopsy and ablation, image-able iodinated drug eluting beads for chemoembolization of liver tumors, heat deployed chemotherapy combined with thermal ablation for liver cancer, “medical GPS” electromagnetic (EM) tracking for fusion of ultrasound to CT, MR, and PET, and fusion for needle-based procedures like biopsy and thermal ablation, and other smart needles, devices, and software for minimally invasive, multi-modality, image-guided procedures. Dr. Wood &/or the CIO team performed “First-in-human” treatments including: First RFA for kidney tumors; First RFA of pheochromocytoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, & chordoma; First thermal ablation of liver tumors augmented with heat-deployed liposomal doxorubicin; First iodinated & image-able drug eluting bead embolization of liver tumors; First GPS-enabled ablation and biopsy devices; Ultrasound fusion enabled navigation systems; and PET, MRI, CT and ultrasound fusion interventions.
Clinical Interest for Patients I take care of patients with all kinds of bone and soft tissue tumors and cancers, including sarcomas, desmoid tumors, GIST, and PVNS (tenosynovial giant cell tumor). I an an expert not only in standard chemotherapy treatments, but also am active in clinical trials including immunotherapy, and personalized/precision medicine. Care Philosophy I believe that medicine, especially cancer medicine, is best practiced as a partnership between doctors, researchers, and patients. Decisions are always best made as a team effort, taking into account every aspect of a patient’s unique situation! Personal Interests I have recently moved from Miami, Florida to Denver and had to change my hobbies a bit! My husband and I love fishing and boating, and now are getting into exploring the incredible outdoor activities, including hiking, off-roading in our Jeep, learning to ski, and just being outside with our dog! Volunteer Activities I am active with several patient-initiated foundations as an advisory board member, helping to empower patients, families and advocates to advance research to find a cure for sarcomas. Public Speaking Yes I enjoy speaking to patients, families, and physicians in the community to raise awareness of sarcomas and to provide updates on new research including immunotherapy.
Interventional radiologist with interventional oncology as special field of expertise. Head fellowship and differentiation program interventional radiology for (resident) radiologists. Certified senior investigator interventional radiology and oncology trial reader. Primary investigator of several multicenter controlled studies in the field of thermal and non-thermal ablation and trans-arterial therapies for malignancies within the liver, pancreas and biliary tract. Expert in open and percutaneous minimally invasive image guided treatments such as radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, irreversible electroporation (nanoknife), transarterial bland embolization, chemo- and Y90 radioembolization. General expertise in treatment of vascular interventions such as acute traumatic and non-traumatic hemorrhages, peripheral arterial disease (PTA and stenting), venous interventions and non-vascular interventions such as percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, abscess drainage, ultrasound and CT guided biopsy and percutaneous nephrostomy
Minesh P. Mehta, M.D. Medical School: University of Zambia, Zambia Post Graduate: Ndola Central Hospital, Zambia Radiation Oncology, University of Wisconsin Board Certifications: American Board of Radiology; United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties
Dr. McWilliams obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biology at Truman State University in Missouri, where he graduated valedictorian and Summa Cum Laude. He then attended the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he received multiple letters of distinction and was selected for the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society. After completing a transitional internship at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City, Dr. McWilliams returned to UCLA for radiology residency. There he served as Chief Resident, and also received awards for Outstanding Radiology Resident and Outstanding Graduating Senior Resident. He then remained at UCLA for interventional radiology fellowship, at which time he also served as Chief Fellow. Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr. McWilliams accepted a faculty position in the interventional radiology department at UCLA. There he splits his time between angio/interventional procedures and cross-sectional interventional procedures, with a focus on HHT, interventional oncology, prostate embolization, vascular disease, dialysis work, and liver interventions.
Dr. David C. Madoff is Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicinein NYC. Dr. Madoff earned his B.A. from Emory University and his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Diagnostic Radiology at SUNY at Stony Brook. His fellowship training in IR was at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He was on faculty at MD Anderson Cancer Center for a decade before joining Weill Cornell in 2011. From January 2011 to November 2015, Dr. Madoff served as IR Division Chief. Dr. Madoff has a strong background in clinical care and has treated many patients with complex oncological problems. He is world-renowned for his work on preoperative portal vein embolization, a technique based on the liver’s ability to regenerate that has been used in patients with hepatobiliary cancer to increase the size of the anticipated liver remnant before surgery. Without this procedure, many patients with potentially resectable disease would not be eligible for curative resection. Dr. Madoff is a leader in academic IR and an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings. He authored over 120 peer-reviewed articles, written more than 30 book chapters and served as co-editor of four textbooks. Dr. Madoff served as Deputy Editor for RADIOLOGY from 2012-2017 and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of JVIR from 2007-2010. Dr. Madoff currently serves on the editorial boards of Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Seminars in Interventional Radiology, Cancer Biology & Medicine and European Radiology Experimental. Dr. Madoff is active in many major radiological societies including RSNA, ARRS, SIR and AUR and serves on the Board of Trustees of the ARRT. Based on his important contributions to the field, Dr. Madoff was elected Fellow of SIR in 2007, ACR in 2015 and CIRSE in 2017.
Robert John Lewandowski, MD is the Director of Interventional Oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He specializes in minimally invasive image-guided cancer therapies for primary and secondary hepatic malignancies.
Surgery
LOCATIONS
Transplant Center at Carolinas Medical Center
1000 Blythe Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28203
Phone: 704-355-6649
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SPECIALTIES
Surgery
EDUCATION
Fellowship
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Specialty: Transplantation
Completion Year: 1999
Medical School or Graduate School
University of Miami School of Medicine
Completion Year: 1992
Residency
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Specialty: General Surgery
Completion Year: 1997
BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Surgery
Fred T. Lee Jr, MD is a Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Urology, The Robert A. Turrel Professor of Imaging Science, and the Chief of Abdominal Intervention at the University of Wisconsin. Previous roles include Chief of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention and Senior Vice Chair at the University of Wisconsin Department of Radiology. He has been a University of Wisconsin faculty member since 1991, and was designated as a Radiologic Society of North America Scholar in 1996. Dr. Lee established the Tumor Ablation Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin in 1995, one of the first of its type in the world. His work has resulted in over 200 scientific publications, hundreds of scientific and business presentations, 20 book chapters, 24 inventions/patents, and substantial federal and industrial grant support. He is the recipient of more than 50 major honors and awards including multiple “Best Doctor” awards, the UW Health Presidential Physician Leadership Award, and the Grand Prize in the 2014 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Competition. Dr. Lee is a founding member of the International Working Group on Tumor Ablation, and a founder of three venture-backed biotech start-up companies devoted to cancer treatment: Cellectar, Inc. (Madison, WI), NeuWave Medical Inc. (Madison, WI a member of the Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson family of companies), and Elucent Medical, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN). NeuWave Medical was sold to Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) in May 2016, and Dr. Lee remains as a consultant. Dr. Lee currently serves on the board of directors and as Senior Medical Advisor for Histosonics, Inc., a University of Michigan startup company developing a non-invasive, non-thermal focused ultrasound technology for tissue destruction, and is a founder and board member of LiteRay LLC, a company developing methods to reduce radiation dose to physicians and patients during percutaneous interventions.
Maureen Kohi, M.D.
Chief, Interventional Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Interventional radiologist
Clinics
Interventional Radiology
505 Parnassus Ave., Room M-361
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-1300
Appointments: (415) 353-2573
Billing: (415) 514-8888
Fax: (415) 353-8570
Hours: Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Radiology at Divisadero Street
1600 Divisadero St., Room A-142 and A-219
San Francisco, CA 94115
Scheduling: (415) 353-2573
CT, MRI and Bone Densitometry: (415) 885-7282
X-Ray and Nuclear Medicine:
(415) 885-3822
Interventional Radiology:
(415) 885-3578
Fax: (415) 353-7299
Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Board Certification
Diagnostic Radiology, American Board of Radiology
Academic Title
Associate Professor
More about Maureen Kohi
Education
New York School of Medicine 2005
Residencies
UCSF Medical Center 2010
Fellowships
UCSF Medical Center 2012
Selected Research and Publications
Seo Y, Khalighi MM, Wangerin KA, Deller TW, Wang YH, Jivan S, Kohi MP, Aggarwal R, Flavell RR, Behr SC, Evans MJ. Quantitative and Qualitative Improvement of Low-Count [68Ga]Citrate and [90Y]Microspheres PET Image Reconstructions Using Block Sequential Regularized Expectation Maximization Algorithm. Mol Imaging Biol. 2019 Apr 15.
Wang M, Ballah D, Wade A, Taylor AG, Rizzuto G, Li B, Lucero J, Chen LM, Kohi MP. Uterine Artery Embolization Following Cesarean Delivery but Prior to Hysterectomy in the Management of Patients with Invasive Placenta. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2019 Mar 25.
Wang M, Laguna B, Koethe Y, Lehrman E, Kumar V, Kohi MP. Bridging the Gender Gap in the Society of IR: A Benchmark Study. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2019 Feb 27.
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Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Georgetown University Medical Center where he serves as the Chief of the Division of Interventional Radiology. After receiving his medical training from Drexel University College of Medicine, Dr. Kim completed a surgical internship at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. He went on to perform a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he studied various molecular pathways involved in cancer development. He performed his post-graduate training in radiology at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital where he also completed his fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. His main clinical and research interest is in interventional oncology – specifically to develop methods to augment outcomes from liver-directed therapies – and has published a number of papers on this topic. He currently serves as an investigator in a number of single center and multi-center trials in various interventional oncology treatments.
Dr. Geronemus received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University and his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. He completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, as well as a fellowship in interventional radiology at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.
Dr. Geronemus is Board-Certified in Diagnostic Radiology with a Certificate of Added Qualification in vascular and interventional radiology.
Dr. Christopher Gomez is a specialist in urinary incontinence and urogenital reconstruction. He earned his medical degree and completed a residency in urology at the University of Miami where he was recognized for his accomplishments in urologic research. He went on to complete a fellowship in female urology, urodynamics and reconstruction. He returned to the University of Miami in 2011 at which point he became a faculty member with the urology department, and in 2012, he became the associate program director of the urology residency program. In 2018 he joined the Miami Cancer Institute to start a center for Continence and Genitourinary Reconstruction. Dr. Gomez was awarded the American Urological Associate/Urologic Society of India academic exchange scholar grant where he focused on urogenital reconstruction in India. He was also selected by the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons and American Urological Society to participate in urethral reconstruction and vesicovaginal fistula repairs in Haiti. He continues to lecture nationally and internationally regarding the impact of neurologic disease on the urinary system and urogenital reconstruction. Dr. Gomez is currently working to advance urologic medicine using minimally invasive surgical techniques to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence, and he is actively involved in research to test and develop new treatments for these disorders.
El Dr. Ricardo García Mónaco es un destacado Radiólogo Intervencionista, especialista en Terapia Endovascular y Angiografía, de reconocimiento nacional e internacional.
Realizó sus estudios médicos en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, en donde se doctoró con Diploma de Honor en el año 1981. Luego completó su residencia en el Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires y su Fellowship en Angiografía y Radiología Intervencionista en el Bicetre Hospital de París, Francia. También realizó un Fellowship en Neuroradiología Intervencionista en el New York Medical Center, Estados Unidos, un Fellowship en Neuroradiología en el Toronto Western Hospital, Canada, y un Fellowship en Intervencionismo Oncológico en el Instituto Gustave Roussy, Francia.
Actualmente se desempeña como Jefe del Servicio de Diagnóstico por Imágenes del Hospital Italiano, así como Jefe de la Sección de Angiografía y Terapia Endovascular. Se desempeñó durante dos mandatos consecutivos como Presidente de la Sociedad Argentina de Radiología, en el período 2001-2006, y es actualmente Miembro Honorario Nacional de dicha Sociedad. Asimismo, fue Presidente del Colegio Interamericano de Radiología (CIR) durante el período 2006-2008, y es también Profesor Titular en la Especialidad de Diagnóstico por Imágenes de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Miembro de numerosas organizaciones profesionales, entre ellas:
RSNA (Radiological Society of North America)
SCVIR (Society of Interventional Radiology)
CIRSE (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe)
CIR (Colegio Interamericano de Radiología).
ISR (International Society of Radiology).
ISSSR (International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology).
ISSVA (International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies)
En 2005 se convirtió en el primer médico de Sudamérica en recibir la Membresía Honoraria de la Sociedad Europea de Radiología (ESR), galardón que recibió también en el año 2002 de parte de la Sociedad Italiana (SIRM), y en 2009 de la Sociedad Francesa de Radiología (SFR). Entre 2006 y 2010 fue miembro del International Advisory Committee (IAC) de la Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), siendo el primer médico argentino en ocupar un cargo similar. Se desempeña también como Reviewer de importantes publicaciones médicas, como por ejemplo la revista Radiology (RSNA) y JVIR (SIR).
La Sociedad Argentina de Radiología le otorgó en 2010 la Medalla Dorada a la Trayectoria en Radiología, y en 2011 recibió la Membresía Honoraria de la Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), siendo la primera vez que esta sociedad otorga semejante reconocimiento a un radiólogo argentino en sus 92 años de historia.
El Dr. García Mónaco ha realizado hasta el momento alrededor de 412 presentaciones de trabajos científicos en Congresos tanto nacionales como internacionales, y ha publicado cerca de 172 trabajos e investigaciones en revistas y libros especializados, muchos de los cuales han recibido premios y distinciones.
Ripal T. Gandhi, M.D. is faculty at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute / Miami Vascular Specialists and Miami Cancer Institute. He is also an associate professor at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and USF College of Medicine. Dr. Gandhi graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a degree in Biology. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Following medical school, he completed a surgical internship at Cornell University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital. He completed his residency training and fellowship at UCLA Medical Center and was voluntary faculty at UCLA following fellowship. He has served as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health and dedicated an entire year to biomedical research at the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Prior to joining Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Dr. Gandhi was an international visiting scholar at Asan Medical Center/University of Ulsan Medical School in Seoul, South Korea. He has authored multiple scientific papers, presented research findings at national and international meetings, and is the recipient of multiple awards. He has published a textbook entitled “Interventional Oncology”. Hs also a course director for the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) and Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO).
Chiara Floridi, MD San paolo University Hospital Milano Born 05.05.1982 M.D., Univeristy of Perugia (110/110 cum laude), 2007 MEDICAL TRAINING Residency in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Perugia , 2008-2012 Fellowship in Interventional Radiology Univerity of Insubria-Varese, 2012-2013 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Physician Consultant at Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Varese Hospital (2013-2016) Physician Consultant at Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology san Paolo University Hospital, Milano (2016-Present)
Mehul Harshad Doshi, MD, is an Interventional Radiologist at Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, and a Clinical Affiliate Associate Professor of Radiology at Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine – Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Doshi completed his medical school and residency in Radiology from B. J. Medical College, civil hospital, Ahmedabad (India) in 2004. He subsequently completed fellowships in Vascular Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology from Jackson Memorial Hospital/ University of Miami in 2008. He served as a faculty in the Department of Radiology and Interventional Radiology at the University of Miami from 2008 to 2018. In April 2018, Dr. Doshi joined the section of Interventional Radiology at Cleveland Clinic Florida. Dr. Doshi is Board-Certified in Diagnostic radiology with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Vascular and Interventional Radiology from the American Board of Radiology (ABR). He is a member of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). Dr. Doshi’s areas of clinical interest include Interventional Oncology, TIPS and management of portal hypertension, embolization and ICV filters. His research interests include tissue ablation, chemoembolization, portal hypertension and IVC filters.
Dr. Thierry Jacques de BAERE 20 juillet 1962 French Head of department of intreventional radiology Institut Gustave Roussy, 39 rue Camille Desmoulins, Villejuif, France – Tel : 00 33 142115428 Main interests : Tumor ablation Portal vein embolization Intra-arterial therapies Digestive tract intervention Chairman of standard of practice committee at CIRSE 2007-2009 Member of the scientific committee of WCIO 2006-2008/2011, ECIO 2008/2010, CIRSE 2008/2009, GUEST 2008-2011, ECR 2013 Chairmann of the proram committee ECIO 2012/2013 Memeber of the CIRSE Foundation Advisory Council 2008-2012 Reviewer JVIR, CVIR, Radiology, European Radiology Full time dedicated to interventional oncology at Institut Gustave Roussy since 1991. Clinical work dedicated to minimal invasive therapy for treatment of liver, lung and kidney tumors. Treatment of liver tumor is optimized due to excellent collaboration with surgery and medical oncology teams, namely through devellopement of many synergistic treatment, including optimization of various intra-arterial therapies for primary and secondary liver tumors. We have been working since over 15 years in the field of percutaneous ablation of liver tumors either by direct injection, or more recently physical destruction . Our first RF experience was in 1996. We are also investigated pre-operative portal vein embolization in order to hypertrophy unembolized parts of the liver. These treatments have been develloped from experimental studies in order to allow a rapid transfer from bench-top to clinical applications.
Michael Darcy, M.D., Professor of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis Chief, Interventional Radiology at Barnes Jewish Hospital and the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Dania Cioni MD Assistant Professor of Radiology at Department of Radiology, Univerity of Pisa Clinical and research activities on diffuse and focal liver lesions buy using contrast ultrasound, computed tomograpy and magnetic resonace imaging, and on interventional oncology procedures and new molecular-targed drug for the treatment of liver malignancies
Jacob Cynamon, MD, Director of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Montefiore Medical Center and Prof of Radiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Chairman of the AIMsymposium, an annual vascular and interventional radiology symposium held in November in NYC. Currently planning the 27 th year. Research in Dialysis access, Arterial and venous thrombolysis. PI for the Safeflow IVC filter. Seatlle 2 investigator. Recently described a new technique for transvenous liver biopsies- TransFemoral TransCaval (TFTC) liver biopsies One of the team that performed the first Aortic Stent Graft procedure in the US. Current practice is concentrated on interventional oncology, Venous Disease, Women’s health, and Prostate Artery Embolization for BPH.
Undergraduate: University of Miami, School of Engineering Medical School: University of Miami, School of Medicine Residency: Emory University Affiliated Hospitals Fellowship: Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at Hospital University Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Board Certification: American Board of Radiology Societies: Radiological Society of North America, Society of Interventional Radiology Specialties: Interventional Radiology with CAQ Dr. Cohn joined Radiology Associates of Hollywood in 1999 after completing his fellowship training from the Hospital at University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His particular area of expertise is in interventional oncology services. Dr. Cohn has pioneered and is responsible for bringing various new interventional oncological procedures to Memorial and south Florida such as: Hepatic Arterial Chemoembolization, Radio-embolization and Radio Frequency/Microwave/Cryo Ablation for oncology patients. He is highly experienced and trains other physicians throughout the U.S.in interventional oncological intervention such as radio-embolization. Dr. Cohn frequently travels as an invited lecturer throughout the United States and has also published several articles. He now serves as Co-Director of Interventional Radiology at the Memorial Healthcare System, Broward County Florida and is an assistant Professor at the Florida Atlantic University Medical School.
Dr. Michael Chuong, MD is a radiation oncologist and director of radiation oncology clinical research at Miami Cancer Institute. He is a member of the NRG Oncology GI committee and the Disease Site Committee Chair for the Proton Collaborative Group. His clinical practice focuses on gastrointestinal cancers for which he has expertise in treating with IMRT, MR-guided SBRT, and proton therapy. He has published numerous peer reviewed manuscripts and is actively involved in clinical trials development.
Dr. Chapiro joined the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging as a research scientist and interventional radiology resident from Berlin, Germany. After graduating from the University of Leipzig and upon completion of his research thesis at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in interventional oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and then as radiology resident at the Department of Radiology, Charité University Hospital in Berlin. Dr. Chapiro works on the development of novel imaging biomarkers, tumor response criteria, staging systems and molecular imaging techniques for image-guided liver cancer therapies. His translational research portfolio includes the development of novel embolic agents as well as the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for the assessment of liver cancer. His basic research interest mainly focuses on tumor metabolism and immuno-oncology. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and news articles, Dr. Chapiro advocates the element of personalized medicine in interventional oncology, which is the most rapidly growing field in interventional radiology practice. Creating innovative and clinically practicable solutions and translating them from concept to practice has been his central mission for the past five years. He is the co-initiator of the “Rising Star” Student Exchange Program in collaboration with the Charité University Hospital in Berlin and co-directs the Yale Radiology Research laboratory.
Dr. Jorge Raul Caso is an adjunct assistant professor of urology at FIU and the director of the urologic oncology fellowship and of the kidney cancer institute at the Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health. He has lectured in national and international conferences on advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery for genitourinary malignancies. Dr. Caso has extensive experience in kidney surgery, including the utilization of laparoscopic single site and robotic platforms for nephrectomy and partial nephrectomy. He has particular interest in extraperitoneal and retroperitoneal approaches to renal and pelvic surgery, bypassing intraabdominal approaches where precluded by medical history. He is an expert in performing robotic radical prostatectomy and complex upper and lower tract reconstruction by minimally invasive means. Dr. Caso has published extensively in the surgery and natural history of varied malignancies. His interests include outcomes based-research and novel surgical techniques.
Theresa Caridi, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. After attending the University of Florida for medical school and radiology residency, Dr. Caridi completed a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. She then joined the faculty at Georgetown. Dr. Caridi is board certified in radiology and also holds her specialty certification for interventional radiology. She currently serves as the medical student clerkship director for interventional radiology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Dr. Caridi is an active member of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and is presently serving as an officer on the SIR Foundation Board of Directors as the Development Division Chair. She has been named a Washingtonian Top Doctor in 2018, an honor given to her as a preeminent physician in the DC, Maryland and Virginia region. Special interests include the treatment of uterine fibroids and other uterine conditions, pelvic venous congestion/ varicocele, prostate hypertrophy, and pulmonary AVMs.
Jim Caridi MD FSIR, Professor of Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Chairman of Radilogy at Tulane University Medical School. Initial training began at FSU and UF in Florida where he was chief of vascular and interventional radiology for 20 years. Part of this time he also served as fellowship program director. During his tenure along with Dr. I Hawkins and staff they published many peer reviewed articles as well as book chapters and posters. Many of the educational materials centered around improving safety and techniques for vascular and interventional procedures as well being the thought leaders for the use of CO2 as an alternative contrast agent. In 2013 Jim moved to Tulane University Medical Center where he started as an attending in VIR. He has since become Chairman of the Department of Radiology.
James F. Benenati, MD, FSIR, is a practicing Interventional Radiologist, Medical Director, Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory and Fellowship Program Director at the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute at Baptist Hospital in Miami, Florida.
He is a Clinical Professor of Radiology at Florida International University College of Medicine and Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He is past President of SIR. He served as President of the Vascular Division for the Intersocietal Accreditation Committee (IAC) and served for over a decade on their board. He served as the annual meeting chairman for SIR in 2005. He was the recipient of the SIR Charles T. Dotter Award in 2014.
He has participated in numerous clinical research projects and national trials. His interest include peripheral arterial disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm and management of pulmonary embolism. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 scientific publications. He has been a Program Director of ISET for over 20 years.
He attended the University of Notre Dame as an undergraduate, received his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine, completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Indiana University and a fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
Yolanda Bryce, MD, RPVI, Assistant Attending in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with special interests in minimally invasive locoregional treatment of primary breast cancer as well diagnosis and treatment of vascular disorders in the oncologic patient.
Dr. Daniel Brown is a radiologist in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Dr. Sandeep Bagla is board certified in Diagnostic Radiology with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Interventional Radiology. He graduated with honors from St. Georges University School of Medicine before completing residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Albany Medical Center where he also served as Chief Resident. Dr. Bagla completed subspecialty training in Vascular & Interventional Radiology at George Washington and completed his Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Vascular & Interventional Radiology. He has been selected as a Top Doctor in multiple publications, including Washingtonian Magazine. Dr. Bagla is actively involved in clinical research, leading multiple clinical trials and receiving national grant awards. His research interests have included: Prostate Artery Embolization in the Treatment of Benign Prostate Hypertrophy, Soft Tissue Tumor Ablation, Pancreatic Cancer and Pulmonary embolism. He has delivered invited lectures at numerous scientific meetings both nationally and abroad. Dr. Bagla has numerous publications in peer- reviewed journals and currently reviews manuscripts for publication in two major medical journals: Journal of Vascular & Interventional Radiology and Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology. He has co-authored book chapters on Prostate Artery Embolization and has delivered numerous invited lectures at national and international meetings. Dr. Bagla currently sits on the physician advisory board of multiple worldwide medical device companies providing his advice for the future of cancer and robotic therapy.
Bulent Arslan, MD, is trained for his fellowship at University of Rochester, New York. His first job was at Tucson Veterans Hospital, where he developed a vascular intervention consult service and provided system wide education for management peripheral vascular disorders. Performed first carotid stenting and percutaneous thoracic aneurysm repair in the VA Healthcare system. Received several gold star awards for outstanding service. He then moved to University of Virginia where he performed several first in man procedures, such as in-vivo fenestration of a stent-graft to preserve renal artery flow and percutaneous treatment of bilateral iliac and aortic aneurysm with two bifurcated stent-grafts. He was one of the early adaptors of thoracic Type B Dissection Treatment with Stent-Grafts as part of UVA vascular intervention team led by Dr Dake. His next appointment was Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Arslan initiated the radioembolization program at Moffitt. In 2011, 256 radioembolizations were performed which was the highest number of cases in the world. He then moved to Rush University Medical Center in Jan 2012, as the director of vascular/interventional radiology. He started developing both interventional oncology and peripheral vascular and aortic intervention programs at Rush. Radioembolization volume increased 10 folds and critical limb ischemia intervention volume increased 5 folds in the first two years of his tenure at Rush. Almost 1000 CLI interventions performed with 98% technical success rate. He also treats thoraco-abdominal aneurysms with percutaneous approach using Octopus technique. Dr Arslan performed the first ever percutaneous femoral to femoral vein bypass graft procedure to alleviate severe lower extremity swelling with excellent clinical outcome. He also performed the first ever percutaneous ilio-femoral arterial bypass procedure. An active researcher, Dr. Arslan has participated in more than 30 clinical trials and has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts, as well as several book chapters.
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Bulent Arslan, M.D., earned his medical degree at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. He completed a residency in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology at University of Rochester Medical Center, NY. Before joining Rush in 2012, he served as Associate Professor of Radiology & Interdisciplinary Oncology at University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of Radiology at University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, and at University of Arizona, Tucson. He recently obtained his professorship in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Rush University Medical Center Dr Arslan is certified by the ABR in Diagnostic Radiology with CAQ in Vascular & Interventional Radiology. His clinical interests include aortic and peripheral vascular interventions, endovascular treatment of complex abdominal, thoracic, thoracoabdominal and arch pathologies and endovascular tibio-pedal recanalization procedures for critical limb ischemia. An active researcher, Dr. Arslan has participated in more than 20 clinical trials and has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts, as well as several book chapters. A frequent speaker, he has been an invited lecturer at more than 150 regional, national, and international medical conferences. Dr. Arslan is a fellow of SIR and a member of ARRS, RSNA, CIRSE, NANETS, ISNVD, and AMA. He currently serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology, and Neurosurgery.
Dr. Horacio Asbun is a general surgeon in Kendall, Florida. He received his medical degree from University of Chile and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Asbun accepts several types of health insurance, listed below.
Angie Amaro PA-C has been in the field of Intervention Radiology for the last 5 years and is the Chief Physician Assistant of Interventional and Vascular Radiology at Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute.
I am a Thoracic Medical Oncologist at the Miami Cancer Institute. Board Certified. Member of ASCO and IASLC. Have a special intrest in the treatment of lung cancer.
Board-certified medical oncologist who treats patients with gastrointestinal cancers. Specializing in primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), pancreas, gallbladder, and bile duct tumors. As part of a multidisciplinary group, my colleagues and I offer patients a team approach to treating these cancers.
Govindarajan Narayanan, M.D., is an interventional radiologist at the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute and the Chief of Interventional Oncology at the Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida. He is Board certified in diagnostic radiology and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in interventional radiology.
Dr. Narayanan received his medical training at Madras Medical College in India. He completed a residency in Nuclear medicine at Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, as well as a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. He also completed fellowships in Interventional radiology at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and Stony Brook University Hospital in New York.
Most recently, he served as the Chief of Interventional Radiology at University of Miami and Jackson Memorial hospital, and as the founding Chairman of the Department of Interventional Radiology at the University of Miami Miller School Of Medicine, where he also served as a Professor of Interventional Radiology.
Dr. Narayanan’s primary clinical research interests include pancreatic, liver and colon cancer. A member of numerous professional and honorary organizations, he is also a pioneer in his field, developing the technique of percutaneous irreversible electroporation (IRE) of the pancreas. He is widely published in high-impact medical journals as Cancer, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and serves as a reviewer and editor for several scientific publications. He has authored textbook chapters and is an invited faculty member and speaker at several national and international scientific meetings.
Riccardo Lencioni, MD, FSIR, EBIR, is Professor of Radiology at the University of Pisa School of Medicine in Pisa, Italy, and Honorary Research Professor of Interventional Oncology at the Miami Cancer Institute in Miami, USA. He was previously Professor of Radiology and Director of Interventional Oncology Research at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Professor Lencioni is one of the world’s foremost interventional oncology specialists, known especially for his highly influential work in liver cancer. He has been the principal investigator of several large, multicenter, randomized clinical trials investigating the use of image-guided interventions for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma and the potential synergies between loco-regional therapies and systemic agents. Professor Lencioni has been a leading member of several expert panels developing recommendations for research and clinical management of hepatocellular carcinoma.
He is also known for having developed modified RECIST criteria for the assessment of tumor response in hepatocellular carcinoma. Riccardo Lencioni has been the Founding Chairman of the European Conference of Interventional Oncology, a co-Founder and Chairman of the World Conference of Interventional Oncology, and a Founding Governing Board Member and Executive Secretary of the International Liver Cancer Association. Riccardo Lencioni has published 206 articles in peer-reviewed international journals indexed in PubMed and numerous chapters in textbooks of interventional radiology, gastroenterology, oncology and surgery. In addition, he has been the editor of nine books. According to the SCOPUS database, citations of his publications currently number in excess of 21,000, for an h-index of 60. Riccardo Lencioni has received numerous international awards for his research and has been an invited or honorary lecturer at more than 500 international meetings or conferences held in 65 different countries.