The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has named Dr. Victoria Marx as its president for 2018-2019.
Marx is an interventional radiologist at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), and she is also a professor of clinical radiology and diagnostic radiology residency program director at the Keck School of Medicine. She assumed her new post on March 20 during the society's annual scientific meeting in Los Angeles.
SIR also announced three other new officers on its 2018-2019 executive council: President-Elect Dr. Laura Findeiss of Emory Healthcare; Secretary Dr. Michael Dake of Falk Cardiovascular Research Center in Stanford, CA; and Immediate Past-President Dr. Suresh Vedantham of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis.
Other new and reappointed members of the SIR executive council include councilors-at-large Dr. Robert Lewandowski of Northwestern Medicine and Dr. Akhilesh Sista of NYU Langone Health, along with Dr. Kelvin Hong of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as postgraduate medical education division councilor; Dr. Parag Patel of the Medical College of Wisconsin as graduate medical division councilor; and Dr. Brian Stainken of Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT, as international division councilor. The executive council also appointed Dr. Raj Pyne of Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, NY, to a one-year nonvoting term as ad hoc councilor for private practice, according to the society.
In SIR Foundation developments, the society has named Dr. Jeremy Durack as chair of the SIR Foundation Board of Directors, while Dr. Katharine Krol has been appointed as vice chair. Dr. Theresa Caridi of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital has also joined the board as development division chair. Meanwhile, Dr. Sarah White of the Medical College of Wisconsin has been reappointed as clinical research and registries division chair for an additional three-year term, SIR said.
