Dr. Fabian M. Laage Gaupp Please tell us more about yourself and your medical training in Germany? I spent my childhood from kindergarten to medical school in Munich. In Germany, you go to school for up to 13 years and finish high school to be eligible to go to university. Read more…
Long before Dr. Seldinger and Dr. Dotter went to work, the first iterations of the catheter began to find their way into clinical care. In fact, the concept of catheters have existed for centuries.
This is the story of an inventor who built a lead shield that hangs from overhead. It is a story of someone working with limited resources and little help, motivated by necessity, and achieving unconventional success. And it all started in the interventional suite when Dr. Chet Rees developed back pain.
When you see an image of an oil rig floating in the ocean, what do you think of? The scent of crude oil weighing heavily in the breeze, or maybe the gasoline you pump into your car? How about inferior vena cava filters? The oil industry doesn’t seem like the best place to look for an answer to how to make a better filter for thrombotic blood—believe it or not, that’s where the inspiration came from.
As with many past stories of innovation, Intravascular Lithotripsy demonstrates the limitless possibilities when you put an engineer, a physician, and a businessman in the same room. This is a story of an unrelenting determination and the creative use of an existing technology that sends shockwaves to the world of calcified arteries.
Short Bio: Dr. Jamaal Benjamin is a fourth-year radiology resident in the T32 research track at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Benjamin grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. After attending Morehouse College for undergrad, Dr. Benjamin joined the medical scientist training program (MSTP) Read more…
Written by: Dylan RopertDO Candidate, Class of 2020 Western University of Health Sciences COMP-Northwest Interview with Hilary Swift Hilary Swift graduated from Western University of Health Sciences COMP-NW in Lebanon Oregon in 2019. She was accepted to the Integrated IR residency program at the University of Michigan and is currently Read more…