SIR 2025 has expanded and updated its educational offerings this year. Not sure what to expect from certain programming? Check out the guide below to help you plan your SIR 2025 experience.
Included in your SIR 2025 registration:
Plenary Sessions (CME activity): This year’s plenary session programming invites all attendees to join together for large forum discussions on the role of IR as a patient-centered specialty.
- Sunday, 10:30 a.m.: Opening Plenary with Gold Medalists, Leader in Innovation Awards and Dotter Lecture by Lindsay Machan, MD, FSIR
- Monday, 11 a.m.: The Power of Interventional Radiologists to Shape and Lead the Healthcare System. Moderators: Julie Bulman, MD, and Michael D. Dake, MD, FSIR
- Tuesday, 11 a.m.: I Owe My Life to IR: A Conversation with Best-selling Author Sebastian Junger
- Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.: Film Panel: Jeopardy Around the World
Original Scientific Research Sessions (CME activity): These sessions showcase the laboratory and clinical investigations abstracts that were accepted for SIR 2025 and published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) Annual Meeting Supplement. Each session lasts 7 minutes, followed by 2 minutes for questions, allowing attendees to learn from original research, uncover significant new observations, and engage with substantial work that presents clear, demonstrable results.
Categorical Courses (CME activity): These sessions blend didactic lectures and case presentations to provide an in-depth review of a specific clinical focus, integrating recent and ongoing research.
Angio-club Workshops (CME activity): These workshops provide practical “how I do it” insights through a case-based learning format.
Educational Exhibits (CME activity): Scheduled for Monday, March 31, at 4:45 p.m., these presentations emphasize practical techniques, concepts and subjects rather than hypothesis-driven studies. Expect a variety of formats, including comprehensive topic reviews, "how-to" demonstrations and visual essays.
Traditional Poster (non-CME activity): These posters showcase various subjects, emphasizing laboratory and clinical investigations relevant to JVIR. Attendees are encouraged to interact with poster presenters during the Scientific Poster Presentations on Monday, March 31, at noon.
SIR Vascular Huddle Symposium (CME activity): This symposium brings together key opinion leaders to share new developments in clinical practice and research on all-things vascular. Learn about new techniques and advances, debate controversies, hear from multidisciplinary round tables and attend interactive case discussions.
SIR Connect Townhalls (non-CME): These sessions provide a platform for informal discussions between panelists and attendees, prioritizing open dialogue and participant engagement without slides or presentations.
Extreme IR Symposium (CME activity): Often mimicked, never matched. Extreme IR curates interesting and extreme case presentations where success and disaster are dissected and lauded in pursuit of education, safety and expanded clinical knowledge.
Additional ticketed events:
Deep Dive Labs (CME activity): The SIR Deep Dive Labs aim to enhance and refine specific skill sets, one topic at a time. Deep Dive topics include:
- Becoming an expert witness: Everything from being contacted by counsel for a potential case to handling cross-examination, and the moral and ethical ramifications involved.
- Percutaneous cholangioschopy: Open to attendees with cholangioscope experience seeking advanced knowledge and techniques.
- Thyroid RFA and goiter embolization: An overview of patient selection, thyroid nodule basics, pre-and post-patient management and CPT code updates.
SIR Stroke Course (CME activity): IRs with interest or experience in cerebral angiography, carotid revascularization, and/or endovascular stroke thrombectomy can earn more than 8 hours of CME credit at the 2025 SIR Stroke Course. Topics from the multidisciplinary faculty include stroke pathophysiology, the latest updates on stroke trials, emerging areas for endovascular thrombectomy, challenging interventions in refractory and tandem occlusion cases, and case presentations. Separate registration required.
SIR Business Institute: The SIR Business Institute offers a masterclass for IRs and practice administrators, focusing on improving business strategies in their field. By attending the SIR Business Institute, participants will gain comfort with key financial matters, build nonclinical business skills and learn about contracts and other legal considerations. Separate registration required.
Technology showcases: SIR’s Technology Showcases (formally hands-on workshops) allow attendees to explore the technologies powering the specialty in a uniquely interactive learning format, guided by clinician and industry experts. Tickets and registration required.
