Award

Eligibility

• Active participation on SIR Foundation fundraising committees or other fundraising efforts
• Significant individual donation to SIR Foundation
• Inspiring or facilitating significant donations to SIR Foundation

2026 recipient

Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR 

Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR, is the founder and chief medical executive emeritus of the Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, a system-wide center of excellence that is part of Baptist Health South Florida, the largest health system in South Florida. He is a professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Services and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computing Science at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University. Since its founding in 1987 Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, under Dr. Katzen's leadership, has served as a national model of success in multidisciplinary cooperation, innovation and patient centered care, and is one of the nation’s leading cardiac and vascular institutions.

Dr. Katzen graduated from the University of Miami, School of Medicine in 1970 and completed an internship in internal medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital, residency in diagnostic radiology at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center and awarded a fellowship in cardiovascular radiology at St. Vincent’s Hospital Medical Center in New York, and the University of Rome, Italy.

He established the interventional radiology program, cardiac catheterization laboratory and noninvasive vascular laboratory at Alexandria Hospital in Virginia in 1976, where he pioneered the use of sophisticated video and audio technology to enhance the process of education for practitioners. He is credited with being the first to use “live patient demonstrations” in the United States, which became the benchmark for procedural education in endovascular therapy and many other procedural areas of medicine.

A pioneer of interventional radiology, Dr. Katzen has served as a national site principal investigator for many clinical trials in the study of aneurysms, carotid artery disease, and peripheral vascular disease and has been involved in the development of numerous devices for less invasive vascular therapy, such as percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and peripheral thrombolysis for vascular disease, and the first intravascular stent. He is a past president of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) as well as the Peripheral Vascular Section of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Katzen has authored/co-authored four textbooks, numerous book chapters and more than 190 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. Dr. Katzen is the founding editor of Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Endovascular Today, where he was chief medical editor.

Dr. Katzen has received numerous awards, including: the SIR Gold Medal; the Gold Medal of the University of Miami School of Medicine Alumni Association and entered into the “Hall of Fame” at the UM Medical School; the Gold Medal award from the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe; the Career Achievement Award at the Transcatheter Therapeutics Conference; Vascular Disease Foundation’s Julius H. Jacobson II MD Award for Physician Excellence; Cor Vitae Heart Award; and the American Heart Association Distinguished Achievement Award.

Congratulations, Dr. Katzen!