Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Registration Brochure
You have been waiting for it. And now, the wait is finally over! The Registration Brochure is hitting the mail.
Catch a sneak peak!
You won't want to put it down. :)
Catch a sneak peak!
You won't want to put it down. :)
Friday, November 7, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
What are your thoughts? Share your point of view on the meeting.
Click on the comments link below and post away!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Splendid - I WILL have Another Glass!
Did you know that the San Diego area is also home to award-winning wines and vineyards? Brag to your friends back home about the distinct, unique wines you found during your trip to San Diego.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
RPVI Course is Back!
Back by popular demand, the Registered Physician in Vascular Interpretation (RPVI) course will be held in San Diego Thursday, March 12, and Friday, March 13. Check back at SIRmeeting.org for updates!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
2009 SIR Awards and Scholarship Opportunities
The SIR meeting offers several ways for medical students, residents, fellows and
IRs in the beginning years of practice to become involved and share their research.
Hmmm - where can I get all of the clutch info??
--> View the Awards Poster for more details!
IRs in the beginning years of practice to become involved and share their research.
Hmmm - where can I get all of the clutch info??
--> View the Awards Poster for more details!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Hmmm, What Should I Do - Go to the Zoo!!
When in San Diego – you have to take the time to check out the world renowned San Diego Zoo. Bringing the family? Impress the kids by taking ‘em to the zoo.
Find out all you need to know about the San Diego Zoo and everything else the city has to offer at the San Diego CVB’s website.
Besides, who could say no to this face?
Find out all you need to know about the San Diego Zoo and everything else the city has to offer at the San Diego CVB’s website.
Besides, who could say no to this face?
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Answering the Call
Remember that sharp Call For Abstracts Postcard you got in the mail? Of course you do – it’s got to be tacked up on your bulletin board right now!
Why not submit an abstract for this year’s meeting? You’re proud of the research and work you’ve done – share it with your colleagues! If you’ve never done it before, why not give a crack at it, and if you have previously – it’s always good to do it again.
Display it poster style, or make an oral presentation. Just keep in mind that the deadline is Tuesday, October 7, at 5:00 PM ET. Check out http://sir2009.abstractcentral.com/ for all the skinny!
Why not submit an abstract for this year’s meeting? You’re proud of the research and work you’ve done – share it with your colleagues! If you’ve never done it before, why not give a crack at it, and if you have previously – it’s always good to do it again.
Display it poster style, or make an oral presentation. Just keep in mind that the deadline is Tuesday, October 7, at 5:00 PM ET. Check out http://sir2009.abstractcentral.com/ for all the skinny!
Monday, July 28, 2008
SIR 2009 Annual Meeting “Blog,” Take 1- A Word From Our Annual Meeting Chair, Matt Johnson, MD, FSIR
I am not a “blogger.” The word, even, is silly. Who thought that “blog” was cool? And, what’s the point? A wise man, perhaps Calvin Coolidge (perhaps not) said “A newspaper will hold anything that’s written on it.” Or something like that. The point, I think, is that words are usually not worth the paper on which they’re printed. But at least you have the paper. You could make a hat.
Anyway, word value could correlate to weight, with words printed on stone at the upper end. Think of an Egyptian stele. Took days to carve, lasted forever. My personal favorite? The Rosetta Stone. Got the word out on several Ptolemaic decrees, served time as part of a fort (I’m guessing an essential part), and then thousands of years later, allowed us to decipher hieroglyphics. How could a “blog” compete with that?
Can’t. Stone vs. Ether. No comparison.
But, as I am currently chisel-less, and lacking big rocks in my vicinity, ether would appear my most appropriate medium. No language will be discovered, and I’ll do my best to mangle the one available to me, but at least I can get the word out about the Annual Meeting, and about all things SIR. That’s something. It’s no Decree of Canopus, but it’s something.
So, begrudgingly, I’ll “blog.” I’m not yet ready to give up the quotations (it’s not a real word), but I’ll “blog.”
The web guy gave me instructions on what to say. “introduce yourself and the meeting, update the program… note influential IRs of the future… San Diego nightlife…”
This is, however, The Internet, today’s paragon of freedom. I’m free! So screw him.
I’ll write what I want. So there. I was going to write about flaming vegetables, but that’s a little hackneyed. So, in the spirit of the Tour de France (without the drugs, I mean), I’ll write about cycling.
Driving home last night, in way too much traffic, too much rush and too much hot, I saw a guy on a bike. Commuting. Dodging cars, no bike lane, no sidewalk, taking his life in his hands. Gotta love the spirit, but he must be a little off.
I’d really like to ride my bike to work. I love riding my bike. I’ve wanted to ride my bike to work for years, and now, with the exorbitant price of gas (my next 5 cars will be Priuses [Prii?]- whatever, I’m the king of Prius envy), I want to ride it all the more. But that ain’t gonna happen in Indy. We’re about 20 years from that. We just got daylight savings time. Bike paths? Pssshh.
So I’m driving, getting annoyed by the traffic and worried about that guy, and an NPR piece about Portland Oregon and bike riding comes on. Apparently, lots of people ride their bikes to work there. There are dedicated bike lanes, “bike boxes” where riders can stop at lights, in FRONT of cars. It’s bike Nirvana. Why can’t Indiana be more like Portland? Without the rain and being forever away from everything I mean. So Portland, but with the Colts. And the corn, which is really good this time of year. Why can’t it be like that?
Because all politics and, apparently, bike lane regulations, are local. And Indy ain’t no Portland.
It must be so easy in Portland. If I were in Portland, I’d bike to work every day.
And… cut.
Did you get the metaphor? “If I were in Portland…”
If I were there, my vascular practice would be great. My department would understand me. I’d never have to do another PICC. I’d do 3 UAEs a day. Uh huh.
If I were in Portland, I’d probably still be driving. I can’t see myself getting up at 5 a.m. every day and getting on my bike at 6:30 p.m. after working all day and peddling home. Maybe once a week. Cycle-commuting would be easier, and safer, but something else would be harder. I hear it rains there.
Same with IR practice. Everybody’s got their own mountain to climb. Politics IS local.
And so that’s the point of this blog, er, “blog.” Everyone has his own mountain, but he doesn’t have to climb it alone. Likely, someone else has climbed a similar mountain somewhere (please remember that this is figurative- we don’t have real mountains in Indiana, but we do have figurative mountains). I would like, through this “blog,” to open up a forum for us, IRs everywhere, to discuss the problems we face, things that are important to us, things we’d like to see happen, AND, to give people who have met problems and solved them/beaten them/figured them out, to speak to the rest of us.
My desire is manifold. One, we, IRs, have a lot to work on. Don’t get me wrong: I truly believe that IR is the coolest specialty there is. The things we do are borderline magical. I mean, like TIPS? Come on. And radioembolization- that’s too cool for words. Don’t get me started on thoracic aortic stent grafts. And, when you get down to it, our ability to “throw a line in,” in a patient who has no access (as far as the rest of the world is concerned) is pretty great. That and the other 50 nifty things we do on a daily basis. I feel a song coming on. So why, then, isn’t everything rosy in IR-land? Because we’re disconnected. Because no one knows who we are. Because what we do is SO cool that it’s incomprehensible to almost everyone. My dad (an IR) would say we’ve been hoisted on our own petard. I don’t know what that means, but it seems fitting. We’ve made it look easy, and it isn’t. So no one outside a select few can appreciate our value. And that’s a problem. By talking about it, perhaps we can come up with some lines which can assist us in overcoming our “magnificent isolation.” The rest of the world might learn who we are. We need that.
And, I’m tasked with coming up with an entire annual meeting program. It’s harder than I thought it would be. I need your help. I’d like to know what matters to you, what you’d like to hear, what you’d like to see, what you’d like to say. You write, people respond, we connect, I get meeting topics. Everybody wins. Kumbaya.
And, I love this writing stuff. For years I wrote papers describing research, or wrote about some dry medical topic- very standard lines, within which I stayed. I like this better. No guidelines. Vegetable horror, Egyptian history, cycling. Love it. The possibilities are endless. But I should probably stop. My kids are getting hungry.
Oh, for those keeping score: My name is Matt, I’m a Taurus, I like long walks in the rain; the meeting begins with a bitchin’ “What works” symposium on Saturday, March 7th; the theme is IR Identity/IR community, working together toward a better future for all of us (for want of a less corny phrase); San Diego rocks, so you should make sure to be there for the meeting.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Anyway, word value could correlate to weight, with words printed on stone at the upper end. Think of an Egyptian stele. Took days to carve, lasted forever. My personal favorite? The Rosetta Stone. Got the word out on several Ptolemaic decrees, served time as part of a fort (I’m guessing an essential part), and then thousands of years later, allowed us to decipher hieroglyphics. How could a “blog” compete with that?
Can’t. Stone vs. Ether. No comparison.
But, as I am currently chisel-less, and lacking big rocks in my vicinity, ether would appear my most appropriate medium. No language will be discovered, and I’ll do my best to mangle the one available to me, but at least I can get the word out about the Annual Meeting, and about all things SIR. That’s something. It’s no Decree of Canopus, but it’s something.
So, begrudgingly, I’ll “blog.” I’m not yet ready to give up the quotations (it’s not a real word), but I’ll “blog.”
The web guy gave me instructions on what to say. “introduce yourself and the meeting, update the program… note influential IRs of the future… San Diego nightlife…”
This is, however, The Internet, today’s paragon of freedom. I’m free! So screw him.
I’ll write what I want. So there. I was going to write about flaming vegetables, but that’s a little hackneyed. So, in the spirit of the Tour de France (without the drugs, I mean), I’ll write about cycling.
Driving home last night, in way too much traffic, too much rush and too much hot, I saw a guy on a bike. Commuting. Dodging cars, no bike lane, no sidewalk, taking his life in his hands. Gotta love the spirit, but he must be a little off.
I’d really like to ride my bike to work. I love riding my bike. I’ve wanted to ride my bike to work for years, and now, with the exorbitant price of gas (my next 5 cars will be Priuses [Prii?]- whatever, I’m the king of Prius envy), I want to ride it all the more. But that ain’t gonna happen in Indy. We’re about 20 years from that. We just got daylight savings time. Bike paths? Pssshh.
So I’m driving, getting annoyed by the traffic and worried about that guy, and an NPR piece about Portland Oregon and bike riding comes on. Apparently, lots of people ride their bikes to work there. There are dedicated bike lanes, “bike boxes” where riders can stop at lights, in FRONT of cars. It’s bike Nirvana. Why can’t Indiana be more like Portland? Without the rain and being forever away from everything I mean. So Portland, but with the Colts. And the corn, which is really good this time of year. Why can’t it be like that?
Because all politics and, apparently, bike lane regulations, are local. And Indy ain’t no Portland.
It must be so easy in Portland. If I were in Portland, I’d bike to work every day.
And… cut.
Did you get the metaphor? “If I were in Portland…”
If I were there, my vascular practice would be great. My department would understand me. I’d never have to do another PICC. I’d do 3 UAEs a day. Uh huh.
If I were in Portland, I’d probably still be driving. I can’t see myself getting up at 5 a.m. every day and getting on my bike at 6:30 p.m. after working all day and peddling home. Maybe once a week. Cycle-commuting would be easier, and safer, but something else would be harder. I hear it rains there.
Same with IR practice. Everybody’s got their own mountain to climb. Politics IS local.
And so that’s the point of this blog, er, “blog.” Everyone has his own mountain, but he doesn’t have to climb it alone. Likely, someone else has climbed a similar mountain somewhere (please remember that this is figurative- we don’t have real mountains in Indiana, but we do have figurative mountains). I would like, through this “blog,” to open up a forum for us, IRs everywhere, to discuss the problems we face, things that are important to us, things we’d like to see happen, AND, to give people who have met problems and solved them/beaten them/figured them out, to speak to the rest of us.
My desire is manifold. One, we, IRs, have a lot to work on. Don’t get me wrong: I truly believe that IR is the coolest specialty there is. The things we do are borderline magical. I mean, like TIPS? Come on. And radioembolization- that’s too cool for words. Don’t get me started on thoracic aortic stent grafts. And, when you get down to it, our ability to “throw a line in,” in a patient who has no access (as far as the rest of the world is concerned) is pretty great. That and the other 50 nifty things we do on a daily basis. I feel a song coming on. So why, then, isn’t everything rosy in IR-land? Because we’re disconnected. Because no one knows who we are. Because what we do is SO cool that it’s incomprehensible to almost everyone. My dad (an IR) would say we’ve been hoisted on our own petard. I don’t know what that means, but it seems fitting. We’ve made it look easy, and it isn’t. So no one outside a select few can appreciate our value. And that’s a problem. By talking about it, perhaps we can come up with some lines which can assist us in overcoming our “magnificent isolation.” The rest of the world might learn who we are. We need that.
And, I’m tasked with coming up with an entire annual meeting program. It’s harder than I thought it would be. I need your help. I’d like to know what matters to you, what you’d like to hear, what you’d like to see, what you’d like to say. You write, people respond, we connect, I get meeting topics. Everybody wins. Kumbaya.
And, I love this writing stuff. For years I wrote papers describing research, or wrote about some dry medical topic- very standard lines, within which I stayed. I like this better. No guidelines. Vegetable horror, Egyptian history, cycling. Love it. The possibilities are endless. But I should probably stop. My kids are getting hungry.
Oh, for those keeping score: My name is Matt, I’m a Taurus, I like long walks in the rain; the meeting begins with a bitchin’ “What works” symposium on Saturday, March 7th; the theme is IR Identity/IR community, working together toward a better future for all of us (for want of a less corny phrase); San Diego rocks, so you should make sure to be there for the meeting.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Welcome to the 2009 SIR Annual Scientific Meeting Blog!
The 2009 SIR Annual Scientific Meeting will be held March 7 - 12 in San Diego, California at the San Diego Convention Center.
You want it, you got it. We're back in sunny San Diego and we're back to the Saturday to Thursday format.
The SIR 34th Annual Scientific Meeting is the premier meeting for interventional radiologists. As always, this meeting will cater to everyone on the IR team- medical students, physicians, phsycian assistants, researchers, nurses, techs, residents, fellows. Topics will range from the newest advances in IR to how to build your clinical practice. Planning for this meeting is already underway and proves to be bigger and better than ever.
For program information go to www.SIRmeeting.org. For information on becoming a member go to www.SIRweb.org. To submit abstracts go to http://sir2009.abstractcentral.com/.
Watch this space for updates, comments and more information!
You want it, you got it. We're back in sunny San Diego and we're back to the Saturday to Thursday format.
The SIR 34th Annual Scientific Meeting is the premier meeting for interventional radiologists. As always, this meeting will cater to everyone on the IR team- medical students, physicians, phsycian assistants, researchers, nurses, techs, residents, fellows. Topics will range from the newest advances in IR to how to build your clinical practice. Planning for this meeting is already underway and proves to be bigger and better than ever.
For program information go to www.SIRmeeting.org. For information on becoming a member go to www.SIRweb.org. To submit abstracts go to http://sir2009.abstractcentral.com/.
Watch this space for updates, comments and more information!
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