SIR Gold Medal
The SIR Gold Medal is presented to individuals with continued distinguished service to SIR or to the discipline of cardiovascular and interventional radiology. Service to IR may include teaching, basic research, clinical investigation or other activities.
Nominations must include a written description of a nominee's qualifications for the award, as well as a detailed curriculum vitae/resume. The primary nominator is responsible for initiating the submission of at least two letters of support from other SIR members.
Gold Medal Nomination Deadline Is May 1
The SIR Gold Medal was established in 1996 and is the highest honor that can be achieved in the field of interventional radiology. The SIR Executive Council can award the Gold Medal to an individual for distinguished and extraordinary service to SIR or to the discipline of interventional radiology. Service to interventional radiology can be in teaching, basic research, clinical investigation or in other areas, such as outstanding contributions in work with SIR, other medical organizations, governmental agencies or related groups.
How to submit: Nomination submissions should describe the nominee's qualifications for the award and should include a detailed curriculum vitae. The primary nominator is responsible for initiating the submission of at least two letters of support from other SIR members.
Send nominations by May 1 to:
Chair, SIR Gold Medal Committee
c/o Debbie Katsarelis
SIR
3975 Fair Ridge Drive
Suite 400 North
Fairfax, VA 22033
Phone: (703) 691-1805
Fax: (703) 691-1855
Email: katsarelis@SIRweb.org
Call for Gold Medal Nominations
Purpose
The SIR Gold Medal was established in 1996 and is the highest honor that can be achieved in the field of interventional radiology. This honor is bestowed for excellence and lifetime achievement in interventional radiology to those individuals who have rendered exceptional service to the field. Gold Medal recipients exemplify those individuals who have dedicated their past and present talents to advancing the quality of patient care through the practice of interventional radiology and who, by their outstanding achievements, also help to ensure the future of the field.
Eligibility Criteria
The SIR Executive Council can award the Gold Medal to an individual for distinguished and extraordinary service to SIR or to the discipline of interventional radiology. Service to interventional radiology can be in teaching, basic research, clinical investigation or in other areas, such as outstanding contributions in work with SIR, other medical organizations, governmental agencies or related groups.
Process
The SIR Gold Medal Awards Committee selects the medalists. The committee's recommendation(s) are sent to the SIR Executive Council for approval. Immediately following approval, the SIR president calls the honorees to announce that they have been chosen for the honor.
Gold Medal Committee Charge
The Gold Medal Awards Committee shall consist of the president as chair, the immediate past president, president-elect and the chair of the Fellows' Affairs Committee. The president may appoint two additional at-large individuals.
The committee will consider all candidates nominated by members and fellows of SIR. The committee may also submit internal nominations. The committee will submit not more than three names for endorsement by the Executive Council.
Nominations received in previous years are reactivated the following year unless withdrawn by the nominator. Members of the SIR Executive Council and the chair of the Fellows' Affairs Committee may not act as primary nominators or sponsors and are ineligible to be nominated for—or to receive—the Gold Medal during their term of office.
How to Submit a Nomination
Nomination submissions should describe the nominee's qualifications for the award and should include a detailed curriculum vitae. The primary nominator is responsible for initiating the submission of at least two letters of support from other SIR members.
Send your nominations by May 1st to:
Chair, SIR Gold Medal Committee
c/o Debbie Katsarelis
SIR
3975 Fair Ridge Drive
Suite 400 North
Fairfax, VA 22033
Phone: (703) 691-1805
Fax: (703) 691-1855
Email: katsarelis@SIRweb.org
SIR Gold Medal Nomination Timeline
Quarterly: Call for nomination reminders (July, October, January, April)
March 1: Convene committee
April: First committee conference call
May 1: Deadline for nomination applications
June 1: Nominees selected
June 15: Executive Council vote completed
June 30: Nominees informed
July 31: Write ups for Annual Scientific Meeting Registration Brochure completed
Gold Medalists
2015: Harvey L. Neiman, M.D., FSIR; Anne C. Roberts, M.D., FSIR; and Johannes Lammer, M.D., FSIR2014: Michael D. Dake, M.D., FSIR; Matthew A. Mauro, M.D., FSIR; and Lenny K. Tan, M.D., FSIR
2013: Wilfrido R. Castaņeda-Zuniga, M.D., FSIR; David A. Kumpe, M.D., FSIR and Kenneth R. Thomson, M.D., FSIR
2012: Kyung J. Cho, MD, FSIR; Dimitris Kelekis, MD, PhD, FSIR; Louis G. Martin, MD, FSIR
2011: Andrew B. Crummy, MD, FSIR; Gordon K. McLean, MD, FSIR; Peter B. Lauer, CAE
2010: John D. Fulco, MD, FSIR; Irvin F. Hawkins, MD, FSIR; David C. Levin, MD, FSIR
2009: Andreas Adam, MB, BS, FSIR, FRCR; Vincent P. Chuang, MD, FSIR; Thomas A. Sos, MD, FSIR
2008: Gary J. Becker, MD; Mark H. Wholey, MD; Gary S. Dorfman, MD
2007: Rolf W. Gunther, MD; Eugene Klatte, MD; Julio Palmaz, MD
2006: Plinio Rossi, MD, FSIR: Harold Mitty, MD, FSIR; Eric Martin, MD, FSIR
2005: Frederick Keller, MD, FSIR; John Abele
2004: Stewart Reuter, MD, JD, FSIR; Franklin J. Miller, MD, FSIR
2003: Arthur Waltman, MD, FSIR; Sidney Wallace, MD, FSIR
2002: Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR; Joseph J. Bookstein, MD, FSIR
2001: William J. Casarella, MD, FSIR; Ernest J. Ring, MD, FSIR
2000: Helen Redman, MD; Herbert L. Abrams, MD, FSIR; Robert I. White Jr., MD, FSIR
1999: Constantin Cope, MD, FSIR; William Cook
1998: Stanley Baum, MD, FSIR; Anders M. Lunderquist, MD, FSIR
1997: John L. Doppman, MD; Josef Rosch, MD, FSIR
1996: Kurt Amplatz, MD, FSIR; Cesare Gianturco, MD