Clinical research

Research consensus panels (RCPs) and summits

Held up to four times per year, these events discuss critical research areas in IR and determine how a priority topic can be further developed.

Research consensus panels (RCPs) and research summits are held up to four times per year to discuss critical research areas in IR and determine how the priority topic can be further developed.

Research ideas are collected from membership, corporate partners and the SIR Clinical Specialty Councils as potential meeting topics. With the guidance of the SIR Foundation leadership, SIR and SIR Foundation division councilors choose a topic and a lead investigator with expertise in the selected topic. The lead investigator coordinates a panel of multidisciplinary subject matter experts. If the panel contains industry representatives, the meeting will be organized as a research summit.

Each panelist presents a specific subtopic and discusses future research needs. The panel determines two to three top clinical research priority topics that may be developed into a clinical research project. Prioritization will be dependent on the level of innovation and its potential importance to clinical practice and overall global healthcare. Representatives from academia, industry and federal agencies may be invited as audience members to contribute to the discussion.

After the meeting, the lead investigator is encouraged to submit a paper to the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR). After submission to JVIR, SIR Foundation will release a request for proposal (RFP) based on the priorities of each RCP. See more information about current and past RFPs.

It is also recommended that an application is submitted for the Incubator Grant, which provides support for related project development costs.

Future RCP(s)

Topic: Opportunities for AI Integration to facilitate triage and endovascular treatment access in acute ischemic stroke.

Dates: TBD

Topics

Interventional Oncology
TBA
Lymphatic
Lymphatic interventional radiology is a minimally invasive procedure that uses imaging and embolic agents to treat lymphatic disorders.
Mens Health
Interventional radiologists may treat an enlarged prostate, and alleviate its worrisome symptoms, by blocking blood flow to the prostate (causing it to shrink), using a technique called embolization. They also use the same technique to reduce the swelling and pain associated with enlarged veins in the scrotum called varicoceles.
Neurointerventional Radiology
TBA
Pain Management
Interventional radiologists can provide minimally invasive treatments to relieve pain, including epidural steroid injection, facet joint injections/denervation, percutaneous discectomy, interspinous spacer placement for spinal stenosis, spinal cord stimulation and targeted drug delivery.
Pediatric
Pediatric interventional radiologists (PIRs) are specially trained to deliver minimally invasive care to infants, children and teenagers. The treatments they deliver carry less risk, less pain and less recovery time than traditional surgery.
Peripheral Arterial
PAD happens when arteries in the legs narrow, reducing or cutting off blood flow, and is a leading cause of non-trauma related amputations when not diagnosed and treated early.
Quality improvement
Quality Improvement
Renal
Renal
Underrepresented Minorities in IR
Members interested in the advancement of the medical field of IR to underrepresented minority communities.
Uterine fibroids
Topic hub for uterine fibroid
Venous
TBA
Womens Health
Interventional radiologists treat a variety of conditions for women including uterine fibroids, infertility, chronic pelvic pain and varicose veins

Recent RCP(s)

Topics
Venous
Search

Cryoablation of malignancies and aggressive benign diseases in children

Lead investigators: Anne Marie Cahill, MD, FSIR, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Eric Monroe, MD, FSIR, University of Wisconsin-Madison
08/07/2025
Womens Health Pediatric

The Dr. James B. Spies Summit for Uterine Fibroid Research: Fibroids and health equity

Lead investigators: Richard Shlansky-Goldberg, MD, FSIR from The University of Pennsylvania and Amy C. Taylor, MD, MBA from The University of Virginia
10/24/2024
Womens Health Uterine fibroids

Role of locoregional therapies in the treatment of thyroid pathology: Shifting treatment paradigms

Lead investigators: Juan C. Camacho, MD from Florida State University and Alexander Lam, MD from the University of California, San Francisco
03/01/2024

Reproductive outcomes of patients undergoing UAE for uterine fibroids

Lead investigators: Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Jessica K. Stewart, MD from the University of California, Los Angeles
07/27/2023
Womens Health

Breast cancer interventions

Lead investigators: Amy Deipolyi, MD, PhD, from CAMC Vascular Center of Excellence and West Virginia University and Dania Daye, MD, PhD from Stanford University
10/01/2022
Womens Health

Harmonization of systemic and locoregional therapies in HCC

Lead investigators: David Liu, MD, FSIR, from the University of British Columbia and Lindsey Thorton, MD, from the University of Miami Health System
05/12/2022
Interventional Oncology

Research priorities in cholangioscopic and cholangiographic interventions

Lead investigators: Harjit Singh, MD, FSIR, from Johns Hopkins University and Ahsun Riaz, MD, from Northwestern University
03/03/2022
Interventional Oncology

From code to bedside—The journey towards artificial intelligence in interventional radiology

Lead investigators: Bradley Pua, MD, FSIR, from Weill Cornell Medicine and Julius Chapiro, MD, PhD, from Yale School of Medicine
12/02/2021

Closing the gaps in racial disparities in CLI outcome and amputation rates

Lead investigator: Paul J Rochon, MD, FSIR, from the University of Colorado and Yolanda Bryce, MD (Junior Investigator) from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
09/23/2021
Underrepresented Minorities in IR

Uterine artery embolization for symptomatic adenomyosis

Lead investigator: Maureen Kohi, MD, FSIR, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Theresa Caridi, MD, FSIR (Junior Investigator) from the University of Alabama, Birmingham
05/06/2021
Womens Health Uterine fibroids
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