Contributors


Jesus Beltran Perez, MD, is medical and research assistant in IR, Hospital Angeles Mocel, Mexico City, Mexico.


Daniel B. Brown, MD, FSIR, is principal investigator of the RESIN Liver Tumor Patient Registry and director of interventional oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.


Erik N.K. Cressman, MD, PhD, FSIR, is chair of the SIR Foundation Grants and Education Division and a member of the IRQ editorial board.


Brian Currie, MD, is a member of the SIR Residents, Fellows and Medical Students Section (RFS) Communications Committee and Training Pathways Committee.


Donna D’Souza, MD, University of Minnesota, is a member of the SIR Student and Resident Committee, Women in IR Committee and APDIR Education Committee.


Sudhen B. Desai, MD (sudhen.desai@gmail.com), is IRQ editor.


C. Matthew Hawkins, MD, is a member of the SIR Coding Education and Application Workgroup.


Summer 2018 | Vol. 6 | No. 3 EDITOR


Sudhen B. Desai, MD


DEPUTY EDITOR Raj Pyne, MD


CONSULTING EDITOR R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR


Diane Millman is a health care attorney and partner with Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC. Powers (powerslaw.com) serves as legal counsel for SIR.


Mithil B. Pandhi, DO, is an IR/DR resident at University of Illinois at Chicago and co- chair of the SIR RFS Vascular Disease Service Line.


Raj Pyne, MD, is IRQ deputy editor.


STAFF CONSULTANT Cheryl Sadowski


MANAGING EDITOR Brian Haefs


EDITORIAL BOARD Meghal Antani, MD, MBA, FSIR Erik N.K. Cressman, MD, PhD, FSIR Joseph Erinjeri, MD Ripal Gandhi, MD, FSIR Suvranu Ganguli, MD, FSIR Justin Guan, MD (RFS representative) Barbara Nickel Hamilton, MD Charles Hyman (RFS representative) Adam B. Jeffers, MD Warren Krackov, MD J. Kevin McGraw, MD, FSIR Gerald A. Niedzwiecki, MD, FSIR Martin Radvany, MD, FSIR Anthony Ryan, MD Susan Shamimi-Noori, MD Jaimin D. Shah, MD Aaron Shiloh, MD, FSIR (@drshiloh; @phillyPRP) Deepak Sudheendra, MD, RPVI, FSIR


Jennifer J. Salopek is a freelance writer in McLean, Virginia. She can be reached at jjsalopek@cox.net.


Agnieszka Solberg, MD, is an interventional radiologist based in Bismarck, North Dakota.


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