CONVIDADOS

Andres Fonnegra - Colombia
Neurocirujano - Neurointervencionista - Radioneurocirugia Gamma Knife Icon®️ en Fundación Clínica Shai.

Belarmino Gonçalves - Portugal
BG is a fully dedicated interventional radiologist (IR). He's the Angiography Section Chief of the clinical Interventional Radiology Department of the Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto, FG). Founder e former (and first) President of APRI - Portuguese Society of IR. He´s specialized in several interventional adult and paediatric minimally invasive procedures he is dedicated to vascular interventions, biliary interventions, interventional oncology and many other non-vascular percutaneous techniques, in the fields of Rheumatology, Pain, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery and Urology.

Christoph Binkert - Suíça
Prof. Christoph Binkert started recently the first outpatient IR clinic in Zurich Switzerland after he was chairman of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Kantonsspital for 17 years.
He earned his medical degree at the University of Zurich. After a residency in Radiology which included one year of vascular medicine training Christoph Binkert went to the USA for a 2-year fellowship at the Dotter Institute in Portland Oregon. After his fellowship he worked at the Brigham and Women¿s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School in Boston Massachusetts where he was promoted to Associate Professor of Radiology. Besides his clinical work he published 100 peer-reviewed articles and delivered many lectures at different scientific meetings. At the moment he is the president of CIRSE. During his presidency he is focussing on clinical care within interventional radiology.

Flavio Requejo - Argentina
Specialist In Neurosurgery
Endovascular Neurosurgeon
Neuroradiologist
Current Head Of Neuroradiology Of The Garrahan Pediatric National Hospital
Degree in Medicine from Buenos Aires University (UBA).
Graduation 1989
Neurosurgery Resident: Between 1990 - 1995
Neurosurgery Chief of Residents: 1995 - 1996
Fellow in Neuroradiology in Freiburg University, Germany.
Head Professor, Dr. Martin Schumacher

Franco Orsi - Itália
Dr. Franco Orsi, a highly experienced and accomplished diagnostic and interventional radiologist, has an impressive career spanning over 33 years. He obtained his medical license from the University of Rome "Wisdom" in 1990 and specialized in diagnostic radiology at the same university in 1994. Dr. Orsi also holds a master's degree in health management.
Throughout his career, Dr. Orsi has held various positions at the prestigious European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy. He started as a Senior Resident in the Department of interventional radiology in 1994 and eventually became the department director in 2005. He has also served as the department's Senior Deputy Director and Co-Director.
Dr. Orsi is a member of several professional societies, including the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society in Europe. His expertise and commitment to his field are evident in his extensive list of 291 scientific publications. These publications cover a wide range of topics, including locoregional tumor therapy, the use of radioembolization in hepatic malignancies, and the management of colorectal liver metastases. Dr. Orsi's incredible experience, leadership roles, and contributions to medical literature make him highly regarded in interventional radiology. His expertise and dedication to patient care make him an excellent choice for diagnostic and interventional radiological needs at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan.

Gloria Salazar - EUA
Gloria Salazar, M.D., FSIR is certified by the American Board of Radiology, with added qualification in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology and Vice Chair of Diversity and Health Equity of the Radiology Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in women’s and venous interventional procedures, her clinical interests include Women’s Health, superficial/deep venous disease, pelvic venous disorders, and vascular malformations.
Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR, is a Vascular and Interventional Radiologist at University of North Carolina.  She trained in radiology at Universidade Federal de São Paulo and completed her fellowship in Vascular & Interventional Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She became a driving force for women's health as past chair of the Society of Interventional Radiology Women’s Health Council. She has continued to not only have a national impact, but also an international impact on the field of Interventional Radiology. She routinely speaks at worldwide conferences and continues to author numerous publications, allowing for the further development of the field of Interventional Radiology. She is currently the Vice Chair of Diversity and Health Equity of the Radiology Department at the University of North Carolina.

Patricio Méndez - Argentina
Radiólogo intervencionista Hospital Alemán de Buenos Aires

Gustavo Oderich - EUA
Dr Gustavo S Oderich is a vascular surgeon practicing in Houston, Texas. He is associated with a number of local hospitals, including Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital. He graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul School of Medicine and has been in practice for almost two decades.
Dr. Oderich worked at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he served as Chair of the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Division. He is credited with his extensive work and research in endovascular repair of complex aortic pathologies. He serves as the national principal investigator for multiple clinical trials, including the Cook Thoracoabdominal Branch Stent Graft Trial and ZFEN Plus Stent Graft Trial, and has served on the Editorial boards of many esteemed medical journals in the field of vascular surgery, including as an Associate Editor of the Annals of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Oderich is also the Chair and Reporting Standards Fenestrated and Branched Endografts for the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Joseph Erinjeri - EUA
Director of Interventional Radiology, Koch Cente
I am an interventional oncologist, a type of interventional radiologist who uses image-guided, minimally invasive techniques to perform procedures to treat cancer.
Rather than making a surgical incision, I perform procedures using miniaturized instruments, many of which are small enough to be used through a needle or catheter. Because of these innovations, many of the procedures I perform use only sedation, without the need of a breathing tube or an overnight stay.
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The first experience most patients have with an interventional radiologist is during either a biopsy (to diagnose cancer) or a mediport placement (to begin chemotherapy). Unlike open surgical biopsies, which require a surgical incision, the biopsies I perform are done using a tiny acupuncture-like needle. Nearly all patients go home the same day, and a diagnosis is usually made within two to three days after the biopsy. During mediport placement, I work with each individual¿s body and needs to place a mediport that allows effective delivery of chemotherapy through a small, cosmetically pleasing device.

Klaus Hausegger - Áustria
Chief. Prof. Hausegger graduated from the Medical.
University of Graz in 1984 and became a full radiologist in 1992. Shortly after, he became an Assistant Professor at the Medical.
University of Graz. He held positions as the Deputy Head of the Department of Radiology and the Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University Hospital of Graz.
His research interests lie in the field of vascular interventions including hepatobiliary interventions, TIPS and neurointerventions. He is currently the Department Head of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Klagenfurt State Hospital in Austria.

Marc Sapoval – França
O Professor Marc Sapoval possui um doutorado em Medicina (1989) e um doutorado em Ciências (1997), sendo chefe do serviço de Radiologia Intervencionista do HEGP desde 2005. Ele realiza numerosas intervenções endovasculares (guiando cateteres muito finos através de artérias ou veias sob controle por vídeo) para tratar condições como fibroma uterino, adenoma da próstata, hemorroidas, varicoceles, aneurismas da aorta, e obstruções venosas ou arteriais.
O Prof. Sapoval tem publicado extensivamente em revistas internacionais revisadas por pares e é frequentemente convidado a falar em diversos congressos médicos internacionais. Ele é um dos fundadores do congresso GEST (Global Embolization Symposium & Technologies), que reúne anualmente desde 2007 especialistas mundiais em embolização na Europa, EUA e Ásia. Além disso, o Prof. Sapoval atua como médico especialista para o site deuxiemeavis.com e como consultor para empresas da indústria farmacêutica e de dispositivos médicos (Merit Medical, Boston Scientific, Cook Medical, Siemens, Gore).

Marcelo Guimarães - EUA
Professor de Cirurgia e Radiologia
Divisao de Radiologia Vascular e Intervencionista
Universidade Medica da Carolina do Sul
Charleston, SC - EUA

Ricardo Hanel - EUA
Ricardo Hanel, MD, PhD, is known for his skill in treating acute stroke and cerebrovascular conditions with ground-breaking endovascular therapy that can be performed from inside the blood vessel. Dr. Hanel also has a special interest in neurosurgical research. His areas of expertise are:
Endovascular Neurosurgery
Brain Aneurysms
Acute Stroke Intervention
Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs)
Arteriovenous Fistulas (AVF)
Cerebrovascular Disease
Skull Base Neurosurgery
Brain Tumors

Ripal Tarun Gandhi - EUA
Dr. Gandhi did his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and Harvard University. He graduated summa cum laude. He received his degree in medicine from Northwestern University Medical School, where he also graduated with AOA honors. Following medical school, he completed a surgical internship at Cornell University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital. He completed his residency training and fellowship at UCLA Medical Center. Currently, he is a clinical professor at the University of South Florida School of Medicine and FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.
Dr. Gandhi also dedicated a year to biomedical research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he investigated minimally invasive therapies for liver cancer and other malignancies. He also served as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has published his findings in several scientific journals, authored several textbook chapters and presented his research internationally. Prior to joining Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, he was an international visiting scholar at Asan Medical Center/University of Ulsan Medical School in Seoul, South Korea. As an international scholar, he gave several lectures and furthered his expertise in innovative minimally invasive therapies.
Dr. Gandhi is the recipient of multiple awards, including the American College of Physicians Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Performance in Medicine, America’s Best Physicians, America’s Most Honored Doctors, Compassionate Doctor Award, Leading Physicians of the World, and Top 100 Health Professionals Distinction Award. In addition, he was recently honored with the Patients’ Choice Recognition Award. He is a fellow of the Society for Vascular Medicine and a fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology.
He is the co-author of the textbook Interventional Oncology.
He is a program director for the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) and Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO).

Romaric Loffroy – França
Dr. Romaric Loffroy, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of interventional radiology currently working at the University of Dijon School of Medicine. He is currently the Past President of the French Society of Vascular and Interventional Imaging (SFICV) and the Director of European Liquid Embolic Course (ELEC).

Ronald Steven Arellano - EUA
I am an Interventional Radiologist with specialization in the diagnosis and treatment by minimally invasive methods of diseases in the chest, abdomen and pelvis. My work where I am lead author highlights innovative techniques to safely target lymph nodes, hepatic and renal tumors for treatment with image-guided ablation. My work where I am joint author has shown the benefits of image guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation to treat renal tumors in patients who are poor surgical candidates. I have also applied innovative techniques to facilitate percutaneous drainage of abscesses and biopsies in difficult to reach locations. In 2012, I co-established the Center for Image-Guided Cancer Therapy. The Center aims to foster clinical and research collaborations with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.
In 2003 I established the Tumor Ablation Clinic at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was the director between 2003 and 2013. In 2013, I fostered the integration of the Tumor Ablation clinic into the Liver Multidisciplinary Oncology Clinic at the Massachusetts General Hospital. I have seen and coordinated the care of approximately 1000 patients who have been seen in this clinic. I provided education and treatment planning for patients who undergo image-guided thermal ablation of abdominal tumors. I was responsible for reviewing pre-and post treatment imaging studies and for coordinating patient care with referring oncologists, surgeons and hepatologists.
My teaching responsibilities have included Fellowship Program Director for Interventional Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital between 2006 and 2016. Since 2020 I have served as the Residency Director for the Integrated and Independent Interventional Radiology Programs at the Massachusetts General Hospital. I work closely with the Graduate Medical Education Office at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education to oversee the training and teaching responsibilities of clinical fellows in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. I was responsible for maintaining educational and administrative requirements of the fellowship with the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. Locally, I worked with physicians in all specialties to organize lectures on topics related to interventional radiology. In 2012, I organized the graduate medical education course titled ¿Gamuts in Interventional Radiology¿ that aimed to provide continuing education in Interventional Radiology for MGH faculty and fellows. I have served as faculty examiner for the Comprehensive Examination administered to 4th year Harvard Medical students. I have mentored 1st year medical students from Tufts University School of Medicine through the Selective Program. I have mentored approximately 60 fellows and 4 medical students over the last 10 years. I continue to mentor medical students from Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
My training in Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology has allowed me to be at the cutting edge of Interventional Radiology. I entered my fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and Intervention at the Massachusetts General Hospital when clinical applications of percutaneous radiofrequency ablations were beginning and I have worked to expand the clinical applications.

Rony Avritscher - EUA
Rony Avritscher, MD is a Professor of Interventional Radiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Avritscher earned his medical degree from the University of Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He completed his radiology residency at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and Interventional Radiology Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Interventional Radiology. His main research focus is in image-guided interventions for liver cancers, including translational research in animal models of liver disease and catheter-based therapies. He established an independent laboratory and is the recipient of a prestigious individual investigator award from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) focusing on characterizing the heterogeneous nature of liver tumor immune microenvironment after local therapies, as well as implementing novel molecular and imaging approaches to reduce disease recurrence. He is a current active member of the Radiological Society of North America, Society of Interventional Radiology, and Society of Interventional Oncology and actively participates in the annual planning of these meeting and in research grant study sections, as well as serving as vice- chair of SIO research committee. Dr. Avritscher is the recipient of an SIO research grant for his work on the tumor immune microenvironment after transcatheter arterial embolization in hepatocellular carcinoma. He was recently elected a fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology in 2018 and has been chairing diverse interventional oncology sessions at the annual meeting of RSNA, SIR, and SIO. Other interests include advanced hybrid suite imaging, lymphatic interventions, and cirrhosis. He received the Editor¿s Award for Outstanding Laboratory Investigation from the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology in 2014.

Sheyla Alfaro - Peru
Sheyla Alfaro MD, interventional radiologist from Lima-Peru. Trained and currently working at the Interventional Radiology Service of Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara. Training in Interventional Oncology in Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. Professor of surgery and radiology residency programs for Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

Thanila Macedo – EUA
Dr. Thanila Macedo, MD is a radiology specialist in Rochester, MN. She is affiliated with medical facilities Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus and Mayo Clinic - Rochester.