Undergrad recipient of Medical Student Award at Annual AUR Conference
Nikita Lakomkin, an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt, has won the 2015 Henry Goldberg Medical Student Award from the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) for his work on CT biomarkers of cancer treatment response. The award will be presented during the AUR 63rd Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 14-17, 2015.
Medical Student recipient of Research Award at Annual SIR Conference
The founder of our Interventional Radiology Interest group, PhD to MD student Mary Ellen Koran, was awarded the Dr. Constantin Cope Medical Student Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting Research Award at the annual SIR Conference on March 3 in Atlanta for her research entitled "Impact of a dedicated Interventional Oncology service line in an NCI comprehensive cancer center."
Grant to boost head and neck lymphedema research
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) has been awarded a four-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to establish a valid, clinically useful measurement battery for head and neck lymphedema and fibrosis (LEF).
“We are helping surgeons operate on sicker patients”
Daniel B. Brown, MD, FSIR, Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Director of Interventional Oncology at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee, puts together a 2015 checklist on the latest portal vein embolization developments for Interventional News readers. He also presented on the subject at the Symposium of Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO, Hollywood, USA). “The rationale for portal vein embolization rests on patient survival.
Hands-on Session in Interventional Oncology
Interventional Radiology is continuing to gain momentum among medical students at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. On February 10, over 20 students from VUSM attended our 2nd Hands-On event, focusing on microsphere technology for the treatment of liver tumors.
