Albert Jiao, MS3, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine @AlbertJiaoIR, SIR MSC PRCC, SIR RFS Social Media Manager We’ve all heard of Twitter. And if you’ve been to any event related to interventional radiology, you’ve heard of #TwittIR. Maybe you chose to join the discussion – or maybe you Read more…
Short Bio: Dr. Paul J. Rochon was born and raised in Louisiana where he spent all of his childhood. Both of his parents were hard-working, yet he had no one in his family who was affiliated with medicine. Experiences in his life, such as spending countless nights in the hospital Read more…
Short Bio: Dr. Janice Newsome grew up in Jamaica. While she had few possessions as a child, Dr. Newsome was blessed with a strong mind and a desire to help others. When she was a teenager, Dr. Newsome migrated to Brooklyn, New York to complete her education. After high school, Dr. Read more…
By: Paul Ippolito, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 2020 Edited by: Giovanni Santoro, DO Pulmonary embolism refers to an acute blockage or obstruction of a pulmonary artery by a thrombus formed at another anatomical site, commonly the deep veins of the legs, that has traveled to the lungs [1]. Inferior Read more…
PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of combination therapy (TACE+ sorafenib) in patients with advanced stage HCC. STUDY DESIGN Open-label, non-randomized, single-arm multicenter phase II clinical trial. The primary endpoint was defined as the rate of completion of the treatment protocol (i.e., 2 months duration of sorafenib following TACE); Read more…
Tell me a little about yourself. I am originally from Seattle. I received my undergrad degree in bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle and then spent 4.5 years in an immunology lab at Seattle Children’s Hospital performing high fidelity genome editing research before CRISPER/CAS9. The idea was to Read more…
Author : Alain Nathan Sahin, Medical student at the University of Montreal Being on the RFS’s Women in IR Committee and recognizing the importance of supporting women in IR, I wished to better understand IR demographics across time. I also wanted to understand how these findings could generalize across other Read more…
Written by: Chris Choe, University of Tennessee College of Medicine MS3 Rose Miller, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, MS3 General Overview about Military Match While currently a rare topic of discussion, IR opportunities in the military are increasing. Medical students choose a career in military medicine for various reasons. For many Read more…
What is interventional radiology? What is vascular surgery? Most importantly, what is the difference between these two specialties? Nature of the Work Interventional radiologists perform minimally invasive, image-guided procedures in an interventional suite. Interventional suites are different from a conventional operating room. IR suites contain imaging equipment and large Read more…
Introduction and Purpose Chronic venous insufficiency and varicose veins are a common condition with a broad prevalence in males and females. Risk factors for venous insufficiency including older age, female gender, pregnancy and obesity among others [1]. Venous disease can result in leg ulcerations. Conservative treatments for varicose veins include Read more…