Interventional Radiologists Revolutionize Modern Medicine: Latest Minimally Invasive Treatments Featured at SIR's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting March 26–31 in Chicago, Ill.

March 28: A categorical course will explore chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in individuals with multiple sclerosis. This session includes presenters Paolo Zamboni, M.D., an Italian doctor who published the study suggesting that a blockage in the veins that drain blood from the brain and spinal cord and return it to the heart (CCSVI) might contribute to MS and its symptoms; Sandy McDonald, M.D., a cardiovascular surgeon from Barrie, Ontario, Canada; Gary P. Siskin, M.D., FSIR, an interventional radiologist and chair of the radiology department at Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y.; E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D., director of the MRI Institute for Biomedical Research and director of Harper University Hospital Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility, both in Detroit, Mich.; and Michael Dake, M.D., an interventional radiologist and Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif. Frontiers in Interventional Oncology will explore current and future clinical practice, imaging methods and targeted treatments with today's leading researchers, including Jeff H. Geschwind, M.D., FSIR, professor of radiology, surgery and oncology and director of vascular and interventional radiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md.; William S. Rilling, M.D., FSIR, professor of radiology and surgery and director, vascular and interventional radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Riccardo Lencioni, M.D., associate professor of radiology at the University of Pisa in Italy and director of the division of diagnostic imaging and intervention at Pisa University Hospital; and Riad Salem, M.D., MBA, FSIR, professor of radiology, medicine and surgery, and director, interventional oncology, division of interventional radiology, department of radiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill.

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