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SIR Foundation Funds HHMI Award

Medical Students! Make a Difference Through Research in IR! The Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Collaborates Provides Funds for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Medical Research Fellows Program. Online Application Opens August 2012. Click here for more information. (Apr. 30, 2012)

AHRQ Accepts Abstract Submissions for Invitational Symposium

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is accepting abstract submissions for an invitational symposium on research methods for comparative effectiveness (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).

Abstract Submission Deadline is March 1, 2011.

The symposium is a follow-up to the 2006 and 2009 AHRQ conferences on Methods in Comparative Effectiveness Research.

The theme of the 2011 conference is "Methods for Developing and Analyzing Clinically Rich Data for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research". Authors of abstracts that are selected for the symposium will be invited to present their work at the symposium and to submit a complete manuscript for peer-review and publication in a special journal supplement.

More information and instructions about abstract submission are available here.

"Getting Started in IR Research" Workshop at the 2012 SIR Annual Scientific Meeting

SIR Foundation is sponsoring "Getting Started in IR Research," a research training workshop for interventional radiologists that will be held on Monday, March 26, 2012, at the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting. "Getting Started in IR Research" will be helpful for both IRs who are new to research and those who would like to refresh their research knowledge. SIR members are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity. Click here to register for the SIR 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting and this workshop. The Society of Interventional Radiology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide medical education for physicians.

Discovery Campaign and Industry

The Discovery Campaign, launched initially in 2007 with an SIR membership phase, is a major fund raising initiative that will further the growth of minimally invasive medicine into new areas of discovery. 2010 marks the initiation of the Campaign's outreach to industry for support.

Transforming the practice of medicine is a fundamental principle of interventional radiology. With that comes the onus of proving our procedures work. SIR Foundation is the mechanism through which we seek to establish the safety and efficacy of interventional radiology. Like our industry partners, SIR members are committed to investing in research and education to advance the future of patient care.

Strengthening this commitment to research ensures that IR physicians remain at the front line of innovation and that industry will have a strong voice in the specialty's future.

SIR members advance first stage of Discovery Campaign beyond goal

Donations to the membership phase of the SIR Foundation Discovery Campaign have not only reached the initial goal of $2.5 million but exceeded it. The current amount raised for this phase of the Campaign is $2,713,419.03. The initial stage of the membership phase closed at the end of 2009, however, the Campaign will continue to solicit and receive donations from SIR members after that date.

Many SIR members have already made incredibly generous contributions. In comparison to our last fundraising effort, IA2000, to which 6 members donated $25,000 or more; the Discovery Campaign has already received 19 member donations of this amount. The SIR Foundation is extremely grateful to all those SIR members who already generously contributed to the Foundation during the Discovery Campaign. Many thanks to all of you.

For those members who have not yet donated, it is not too late. Please consider making a positive investment in your future by ensuring that interventional radiology remains vibrant and important for the rest of your career. Donating the collections you receive from one major procedure per year for five years will help to validate present and new procedures, guarantee that these procedures will continue to be available to patients and make sure that interventional radiologists will continue to be reimbursed for them.

IR Clinical Trials Searchable Database

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PAD Protocol Development

Experts in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) convened in Herndon, Va., on Sept. 4, 2008, to map out the protocol for a high-level consortium outcomes study to evaluate SFA disease outcomes. The protocol topic was previously determined at the Foundation's April 2008 PAD Research Consensus Panel meeting.

The PAD outcomes study will represent a broad, multiyear survey of the current and future practice of endovascular therapy for SFA disease, as well as the factors influencing current trends. In addition, the study will serve to provide long-term data in the PAD population undergoing various interventions.

Read more about PAD protocol development.

Opportunity to Submit Proposals for Carotid Intervention Research

Members who have an interest in carotid interventions have an opportunity to submit a proposal for academic research leading to an abstract or manuscript. The National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Carotid Artery Revascularization and Endarterectomy Registry (CARE) program collects patient, provider and facility characteristics; device and lesion characteristics; adverse event rates, including 30 day follow-up and many more measures. Applicants can request funding from NCDR to perform and pay for all data analysis and statistical work. For more information about the CARE registry and to download a research proposal application

Read more about the CARE registry; a research proposal application may be downloaded here as well.

ATTRACT Trial

In 2004, SIR Foundation's Cooperative Alliance for Interventional Radiology Research (CAIRR) convened a research consensus panel (RCP) in order to discuss and establish a research agenda for endovascular venous thromboembolism (VTE) interventions. The expert panel proposed that the most needed research in VTE was an acute DVT trial. This trial will compare the best medical therapy with the current best interventional clot removal method. The meeting proceedings were published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology in 2005.

The SIR Foundation began working with Suresh Vedantham, M.D., from the Washington University School of Medicine in 2006 to develop the federal application for the ATTRACT trial. An NIH R01 application was submitted to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in June 2007. The ATTRACT trial subsequently received $10.2 million in funding. SIR Foundation serves as a collaborating institution on the ATTRACT trial.