Contributors


Omosalewa Adenikinju, MD, is a diagnostic radiology—early specialization in interventional radiology resident at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami


Beach, Florida.


Ezana Azene, MD, PhD, is an IR in the Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin.


in July 2019.


James J. Morrison, MD is an interventional radiologist with Advanced Radiology Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan.


Robert E. Beasley, MD, is the chief of vascular and interventional radiology and the director of the Wound Healing Center at Mount Sinai Medical


Center in Miami Beach, Florida.


James F. Benenati, MD, FSIR, is a clinical professor of radiology, the medical director of the Peripheral Vascular Laboratory and program coordinator of the IR Residency at


the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.


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


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.


Stephanie L. Dybul, MBA, RT(R) (VI), CIRCC, is the division administrator of vascular and interventional radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin


in Milwaukee.


Ripal T. Gandhi, MD, FSIR, is a member of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute physician team and a member of the IRQ editorial board.


Suvranu Ganguli, MD, FSIR, is a member of the IRQ editorial board.


Sergio Sierre, MD, FSIR, is the director of the department of interventional radiology at Hospital de Pediatria Prof. J. P. Garrahan, in Buenos Aires,


Argentina. He is also the fellowship director for the pediatric interventional radiology program.


Kathy Taylor, MS, FNP-BC, is a nurse practitioner with the Mercy Radiology Group, Sacramento, California.


Dario Teplisky, MD, is staff member of pediatric interventional radiology at Hospital de Pediatria Prof. J. P. Garrahan, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.


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


Timothy Yates, MD, is the associate program director of diagnostic radiology and an interventional radiologist in the department of vascular and


interventional radiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida.


Beach, Florida.


Melanie Padgett Powers is a writer/editor in the Washington, D.C., area specializing in health writing.


Brandon Olivieri, MD, is an interventional radiologist in the department of vascular and interventional radiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami


James Benjamin Moroney, MD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at MSU/Spectrum Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and will begin his radiology residency training


Winter 2019 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 EDITOR


Sudhen B. Desai, MD


DEPUTY EDITOR Raj Pyne, MD


CONSULTING EDITOR R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR


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 Evan W. Harris, MD, RPVI 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


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