INTERVENTIONAL NEWS & SIR: TWO CANADIANS AWARDED 2015 SIR FOUNDATION LEADERS IN INNOVATION AWARD.

Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation bestows annual awards

Interventional radiology pioneers receive Leaders in Innovation Award; young investigator, research and philanthropy awards also presented during SIR's Annual Scientific Meeting

Society of Interventional Radiology

FAIRFAX, Virginia--Two visionaries of interventional radiology were recently awarded the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Leaders in Innovation Award. The awards, to Lindsay Stuart Machan, M.D.,FRCPC, FSIR, an interventional radiologist at Vancouver Hospital, British Columbia, and Kieran Patrick Murphy, MB BChir BAO(Dublin), FRCPC., FSIR, an interventional radiologist at the University of Toronto, both in Canada, were announced March 4 during the society's Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta.
"SIR Foundation award winners demonstrate a passion for medical breakthroughs that improve patient care," said Stephen T. Kee, M.D., MMM, FSIR, 2014-15 foundation board chair. "The Leaders in Innovation Award honors two of our specialty's visionaries who have each created numerous devices and pioneered advances in the treatment of complex conditions," added Kee, who is professor and chief of interventional radiology at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in California.
Machan, who is also an associate professor of radiology at the University of British Columbia, focuses his practice on infertility and gynecological interventions as well as aortic and peripheral arterial disease. He has designed many devices and played a significant role in Canada's medical technology industry over the last 15 years, and he holds patents on multiple drug and device technologies, including drug-eluting stents.
Murphy, who is vice chair and chief of medical imaging at the University of Toronto, has worked in the area of acute stroke interventions and the assessment of brain perfusion. His devices for vertebroplasty to treat painful spine compressions are in frequent use worldwide.

 (comment: Prof Machan has` 135 Patents;  Prof Murphy has 60 Patents..

INTERVENTIONAL: NEWS May 2015 p.17 reported Prof MURPHY studying effect of oral anti-oxidant reduce DNA injury from ionising radiation "7-pi;l cocktail includes beta-carotine, vit.C.,alpha-lipoic acid,and n-acetyl cysteine.Presented findings at SIR Atlanta meeting.

INTERVENTIONAL NEWS: May 2015 22-23 Profile "LINDSAY MACHAN".