Credentialing Statements

1. Response to ACC/ACP/SCAI/SVMB/SVS Clinical Competence Statement on Catheter-Based Peripheral Vascular Interventions
Pre-press Copy -- This Commentary will appear in the January 2005 issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (Accepted for publication by JVIR October 20, 2004)
David Sacks, M.D.
Standards Division Councilor, SIR

2. Training Standards for Physicians Performing Peripheral Angioplasty and Other Percutaneous Peripheral Vascular Interventions: A Statement for Health Professionals from the Special Writing Group of the Councils on Cardiovascular Radiology, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, and Clinical Cardiology, the American Heart Association
David C. Levin, Gary J. Becker, Gerald Dorros, Jerry Goldstone, Spencer B. King, III, James M. Seeger, James B. Spies, John A. Spittell, Jr, and Lewis Wexler
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2003 14: S359-S361.

3. Credentials for Peripheral Angioplasty: Comments on Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention Revisions
David Sacks, Gary J. Becker, and Terence A.S. Matalon
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2003 14: S363-S367.

4. Training Standards for Physicians Performing Uterine Artery Embolization for Leiomyomata: Consensus Statement Developed by the Task Force on Uterine Artery Embolization and the Standards Division of the Society of Interventional Radiology—August 2000
James Spies, Gerry Niedzwiecki, Scott Goodwin, Nilesh Patel, Robert Andrews, Robert Worthington-Kirsch, John Lipman, Lindsay Machan, David Sacks, Keith Sterling, and Curtis Lewis
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2003 14: S369-S371.

5. Position Statement: Documenting Physician Experience for Credentials for Peripheral Arterial Procedures—What You Need to Know: A Consensus Statement Developed by the Standards Division of the Society of Interventional Radiology
Curtis A. Lewis, David Sacks, John F. Cardella, and Tricia E. McClenny
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2003 14: S373.

6. Credentials for Uterine Artery Embolization
James B. Spies, MD, and David Sacks, MD
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2004; 15:111–113.