The UVA Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging had a great showing at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s annual meeting.
Several department residents and fellows delivered scientific presentations at the conference, which was held from March 23 – 28 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Those trainees and their presentation titles are listed below:
- John Barrera, MD (PGY-4 Integrated Resident): Advanced Imaging Techniques During Percutaneous Ablation of Occult Hepatic Lesions: Tips and Tricks
- Vishnu Chandra, MD (PGY-5 Integrated Resident): Intravascular US During Tunneled HD Catheter Exchange: A Tool to Improve Technical Success
- Meghan Clark, MD (PGY-6 Integrated Resident): Extreme IR Case
- Christina Dalzell, MD (PGY-2 Integrated Resident): Contrast Extravasation on CT vs. Splenic Angiography in Blunt Trauma
- Marc Kryger, MD (PGY-5 Integrated Resident): Comparisons of Outcomes
- Hideyuki Torikai, MD (Body Imaging Fellow): Association Between Quantitative Perfusion Using Catheter-Directed CTA and Clinical Success in Patients with Critical Limbe Threatening Ischemia
Department faculty also participated in the conference — as both presenters and moderators. Those contributors were John Fritz Angle, MD; Ziv Haskal, MD; John Matson, MD; Alan Matsumoto, MD; Daniel Sheeran, MD; Amy Taylor, MD; and Luke Wilkins, MD.
In addition, three medical students from the University of Virginia School of Medicine also presented at the SIR conference:
- Malinda Gong: Comparison of Current Risk-Stratification Systems for TIPS Patients: a Single Center 5-Year Experience
- Sandeep Murthy” Introduction to Arterial Spin Labeling for Peripheral Extremity Perfusion
- Joseph Nguyen: Outcomes of Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Lower Extremity Arterial Thrombolysis Based on Rutherford Classification; Differences in Outcomes of Intra-Arterial Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Unilateral vs Bilateral Lower Extremity Arterial Thrombosis (poster)