Congratulations, Maureen Kohi of UNC Radiology! Dr. Kohi was awarded the Tom Dorsey Gold Medal—by the Western Angiographic and Interventional Society (Western Angio) in recognition of her lifelong contribution to Interventional Radiology. @VIRTARHEELS. @SIRSpecialists

Western Angio Sabeen Dhand Sabeen - kudos for creating such a great conference, your work on this was appreciated by all! Always love catching up with the IR Family… Mark Lessne, MD Kumar Madassery Don Garbett Aparna Baheti, MD Jill Sommerset Charles Nutting, DO FSIR Aaron Fritts Mike Watts Road2IR

Great photo, good fun! #wais2023

Just announced - Trailer for Without A Scalpel episode 5 on #withoutascalpelday Check it out!

IRs in training: want to go to the best conference in the field?? We now have a way to do it!! The LSD Memorial Scholarship fund! It’s in Hawaii this year too!! Please share with trainees! SIR RFS SIR ECS Kumar Madassery Parag Patel Ziv J Haskal MD Abhishek Kumar M.D. Robert Ryu Daniel Sze

One of the questions on Jeopardy! tonight! Dr. Palmaz, an Interventional Radiology pioneer was the keynote speaker at #wais2019 conference! 🎉

🔥 Next OC Angio club 2/28/24 @ 6PM 🔥 Big cases being shared! Reply or DM for details/RSVP. In person only!!! USC IR UCI Interventional Radiology UC San Diego Interventional Radiology UCLA IR BackTable Vascular and Interventional SIR RFS SIR ECS Western Angio Raj Khalsa, MD, MBA Omar Solana MD NFT Brian Kolski,MD Scott Fujimoto Kyle Cooper

Reminder about our new scholarship program for trainees! See OP:

Looking forward to this! LAIIC will be there!! Always an awesome meeting Paul O'Connor Raymond Melikian Michael J. Hsu Raj Khalsa, MD, MBA Jalil Kalantari, MD, MS Kyle Cooper @theIIMD Omar Solana MD NFT Stuart Schroff, MD Robert Ryu Western Angio Society of Interventional Radiology SIR RFS SIR ECS Register now!!

Larry-Stuart Deutsch (LSD) Memorial Scholarship Fund 👨‍🏫 A fund in honor of Dr Deutsch awarded to IRs-in-training to attend WAIS @theIIMD Susan J. 💥 💫 SIR RFS Maureen Kohi Don’t wait - apply now!! Apps already coming in! FYI - You don’t have to be part of western region to apply!

If you didn’t believe me when I said that the loss of ERAS revenue is an existential threat for the AAMC, take a look at this ‘not for circulation’ e-mail they sent to medical school deans, urging them to keep program directors from switching to another application system. (🧵)

Life-changing, life-saving #IRad procedure for those willing to take it on No more ascites No more bleeding Walking 4 miles a day "I feel totally healthy again" Trans-splenic #PVRTIPS w SMV recan: do it! Society of Interventional Radiology #Liver #GITwitter

Here's a little cinematic snack and preview for the #WAIS2024 Conference... the Wellness & Longevity Session will include a presentation from the Blue Zones Project. If you haven't watched the docuseries, it's on Netflix. Watch the trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=it-8MI…

Congrats to Shankar Rajeswaran, MD, who was a new faculty speaker at #WAIS2023 Palm Springs on this very topic. Interesting and life changing for the pediatric population! 🔥

#WAIS2024 is filling up!! Register and get your room!! Before it’s fully booked! IRs in training — please see info re: LSD scholarship to cover your entire trip!! You don’t want to miss on this!!

🔥 2024 WAIS Conference Program online 🔥 Going to be one great conference!! Room blocks full but trying to accommodate as much as possible! westernangio.org/program

Thanks Jay and Sabeen for a such a genuine and heartfelt conversation about a critically important topic. Jay: your brother would be so proud of you. #IRad #MentalWellness #radres

Saw the most legit phlegmasia case of my life recently. Sensory+motor function loss reversed with single session thrombectomy. Can you believe we were doing this with 5-6 F devices a decade ago?! Society of Interventional Radiology Vascular SVS Endovascular Today BackTable Vascular and Interventional VIR at RUSH MCW Vascular and Endovascular Surgery MCW VIR

A #WAIS2023 highlight: a wine tasting fundraiser for ⁦Road2IR⁩ led by ⁦Mike Watts⁩ raised over $10k! Really looking forward to #WAIS2024 in Kauai! ⁦Alda Tam⁩ ⁦Parag Patel⁩ ⁦Jenanan Vairavamurthy, MD⁩ ⁦Sabeen Dhand⁩ ⁦Eric J. Keller⁩ ⁦Western Angio⁩