Summer internships

2019 Summer Medical Student Internship Program

The SIR Foundation Summer Medical Student Internship Program introduces medical students early in their studies to interventional radiology research and medical device development. The internships are for highly motivated medical students who seek to acquire a fundamental understanding of research methods as they relate to vascular and interventional radiology.

2019 IR Internship Sites:

Children's National Medical Center / George Washington University

Cleveland Clinic

Johns Hopkins University

Medical College of Wisconsin

University of Illinois at Chicago

2019 Corporate Host Sites:

Becton Dickinson

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Current Interns (2019):

Becton Dickinson with Alex Tessmer and JD Meler, MD:

• Bishoy Ghobryal, University of Rochester
• Charissa Kim, PhD, McGovern Medical School at UT Health

Children's National Medical Center/George Washington University with Karun Sharma, MD, PhD, FSIR:

• Christopher Gallo, Duke University School of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic with Gordon McLennan, MD, FSIR:

• Caleb Heiberger, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University with Clifford R. Weiss, MD, FSIR:

• Varun Danda, Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Medical College of Wisconsin with Sarah B. White, MD, MS, FSIR:

• Matthew Steritz, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago with Ron C. Gaba, MD, FSIR:

•  Sakshum Chadha, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

 

Past Interns (2018):

Becton Dickinson with Mike Randall, BSME, MBA and JD Meler, MD:

• Anouva Kalra-Lall, Case Western Reserve University
• Scott Shuldiner, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic with Gordon McLennan, MD, FSIR:

• Anthony Osifuye, University of Minnesota Medical School

Johns Hopkins University with Clifford R. Weiss, MD, FSIR:

• John Filtes, SUNY Downstate

MD Anderson Cancer Center with Erik N.K. Cressman, MD, PhD, FSIR, and Richard Bouchard, PhD:

• Michael Spors, Indiana University School of Medicine

UCLA Health with Edward Wolfgang Lee, MD, PhD, FSIR:

• Damian Hall, University of Minnesota Medical School

The University of Illinois at Chicago with Ron C. Gaba, MD, FSIR:

• Francesca LoBianco, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Yale School of Medicine with Kevin S. Kim, MD, FSIR:

• William Kamp, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Medical students: Apply now for summer 2020

Students applying for the program must show strong potential for a career in IR with proven academic success. Selected students will have an opportunity to intern with an interventional radiologist research mentor host or a corporate research and development mentor host during the summer. Medical students interested in applying to the upcoming 2020 summer internship period, must submit the following:

1. The application document

2. A letter of recommendation

The application will be considered incomplete until SIR Foundation receives a letter of recommendation from one of the following members of the applicant's faculty:

• Director of the radiology residency program
• Director of the IR fellowship
• An interventional radiologist on the faculty

Complete applications must be submitted by Dec. 14, 2019. Please read the guidelines document for more information and submit your final application here.

For questions regarding the application, please email Sara Myers.

If you are a corporate or IR academic host site interested in participating in the 2020 program, please apply by Sep. 15, 2019. 

For corporate host sites: Please review the guidelines and apply here.

For IR host sites: Please review the guidelines and apply here.