Awards

Dr. Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award

The Dr. Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award promotes excellence in academic research for members early in their careers. This award honors the founding editor of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) by recognizing the importance of the young investigator in developing the interventional solutions for the future.

In 1990, the SIR Foundation established the Dr. Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award as a way to recognize promising young practitioners of interventional medicine early in their careers and encourage their pursuit of academic careers. Each year an author of the most outstanding clinical science research paper submitted receives this distinguished award. The primary author must be within 5 years of completion of a fellowship in interventional radiology.

The recipient of the Dr. Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award will be invited to travel, courtesy of SIR Foundation, to SIR's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, FL. The recipient will also receive complimentary registration along with a $3,000 honorarium. The awardee will be invited to present on how this award will help further their research and how they expect their research to transform the practice or IR.

APPLICATION PROCESS

All Items MUST be submitted no later then November 13th, 2009 5:00pm EDT

  • Submit a manuscript that has been published in the last year or is being considered for publication. This manuscript does not have to be submitted to JVIR to be considered.
  • Submit CV
  • Fill out an application
  • Provide a document containing information on your service to the interventional radiology community and patient care/teaching
  • Include a letter of support from a department chair
  • Include a letter of endorsement from an SIR member, if department chair is not an SIR member

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2009 Dr. Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award Recipient


Filip Banovac, MD

The 2009 Dr. Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award was presented to Dr. Filip Banovac. Dr. Banovac has been a faculty member at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC since 2004. He assumed the position of the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology in 2008. Filip is a graduate of Duke University with a degree in biomedical engineering. He attended Medical School at Medical College of Virginia where he also completed his internship. He did his Diagnostic Radiology Residency training at Georgetown University and his Fellowship in IR at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

Filip has been an active member of SIR and serves on a number of committees, mostly focusing on research, research education, and medical education of Residents and Fellows. He served as the Chair of the Communications subcommittee of the SIR Research Policy Committee form 2007-2008. He is also the Program Director of the IR Fellowship and the DIRECT Pathway Residency at Georgetown University.

Filip’s interests in research focus on technology development for precision delivery of instruments into small targets. He and the team of investigators at the ISIS Center at Georgetown University have focused on development of these applications as they relate to Interventional Oncology, specifically ablation of tumors. He authored and co-authored about 80 publications, abstracts and book chapters mostly on technology development in image guided therapy and Interventional Oncology. In his present work titled “Radiofrequency Ablation of Lung Tumors in Swine Assisted by a Navigation Device with Pre-procedural Volumetric Planning” a team of investigators at the Georgetown’s ISIS center explored the role of electromagnetic navigation of RFA probes for purpose of lung tumor ablation in a swine model.

Previous Dr. Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award Recipients

2009 - Filip Banovac, MD
2006 - Michael Kuo, MD
2005 - Thomas Jahnke, MD
2004 - Kamran Ahrar, MD
2003 - Kevin Baskin, MD
2002 - Daniel Sze, MD
2001 - David Kallmes, MD
2000 - Jeff Geschwind, MD
1999 - Stephen T. Kee, MD
1998 - Kenneth Moresco , MD
1997 - Michael J. Hallisey, MD
1996 - Richard Shlansky-Goldberg, MD
1995 - Gregory S. Berkey, MD
1994 - Dean A. Nakamoto, MD
1993 - Yonghua Dong, MD
1992 - Moni Stein, MD
1991 - Douglas C. B. Redd, MD
1990 - Max P. Rosen, MD