Society awards

The Gold Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the Society of Interventional Radiology.

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.

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.

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Nominations received in previous years are reactivated the following year unless withdrawn by the nominator.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.

Email your nominations by May 1 to:
Caitlin Couture, Director, Governance and Engagement at ccouture@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

Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecture

The Charles T. Dotter Lecture was initiated in 1984 as an annual invited lecture to honor Dr. Dotter as one of the founding fathers of interventional radiology. The award provides a forum for the recipient to deliver the special Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecture during the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting.

Process

The lecturer is selected by the SIR president. The award has been given to one non member, non IR once. The lecture is published annually in the JVIR.

Eligibility criteria

Awardees are senior interventionalists recognized for their extraordinary contributions to the field, dedicated service to the Society, and distinguished career achievements in interventional radiology.

Sponsorship

From its inception, this lecture has been supported by the SIR Foundation.

The Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecturers

1985 Professor Med E. Zeitler	Overviews of angioplasty
1986 Anders M. Lunderquist, MD, FSIR	Evolution of therapeutic techniques in the liver
1987 Stanley Baum, MD, FSIR	The interventionalist's impact on the practice of radiology
1988 Herbert L. Abrams, MD, FSIR	MRI ... the development of national consensus
1989 Thomas F. Meaney, MD, FSIR	The decline of diagnostic radiology: A call to action
1990 Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, FSIR	Future trends in evaluating quality of care
1991 Rolf W. Gunther, MD, FSIR	Percutaneous interventions in the thorax: Current status and future concepts
1992 Kurt Amplatz, MD, FSIR	History of coronary angiography
1993 William J. Casarella, MD, FSIR	The radiologist as a surgeon: The past and future of IR
1994 Helen C. Redman, MD, FSIR	On the crest of the wave
1995 Arthur C. Waltman, MD, FSIR	The training of the interventionalist
1996 Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR	Endovascular grafts: The beginning of the future or the end
1997 Ernest J. Ring, MD. FSIR	Will interventional radiology survive into the next millennium?
1998 Sidney Wallace, MD, FSIR	Creativity and disease: A radiologic odyssey
1999 Gary J. Becker, MD, FSIR	IR 2000 and beyond: Back from the brink
2000 Frederick S. Keller, MD, FSIR	IR: New paradigms for the new millennium
2001 Julio C. Palmaz, MD, FSIR	Understanding vascular devices at the molecular level is the key to progress
2002 Gary S. Dorfman, MD, FSIR	Revolution, evolution or extinction--Report of an imaginary conversations among Dotter, Darwin and a few selected revolutionaries
2003 Robert L. Vogelzang, MD, FSIR	One in three: The uninsured in America
2004 Anne C. Roberts, MD, FSIR	Interventional radiology today: What would Charles Dotter say?
2005 Peter R. Mueller, MD, FSIR	Pioneers of non-vascular interventional radiology: Buy the mission; have the fire, protect your territory
2006 Andreas Adam, MD, FSIR	Interventional radiology: Veni, vidi, vanished
2007 Michael D. Dake, MD, FSIR	Our rock and our hard place -- getting past competition to collaboration
2008 Jim A. Reekers, MD. FSIR	Can IR survive without scientific evidence?
2009 Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FSIR	The birth of a specialty
2010 Michael C. Soulen, MD, FSIR	IR: Generations
2011 Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIR	Data intergration in IR -- A pressing challenge for our time
2012 John A. Kaufman, MD, FSIR	IR 360
2013 Daniel Picus, MD, FSIR	Blink of an eye
2014 Jamees F. Benenati, MD, FSIR	Thirty miles east of Samar
2015 Robert K. Kerlan,Jr. MD, FSIR	Interventional radiology: Adapting to the changing world of healthcare
2016 Scott O. Trerotola, MD, FSIR	CompetItoR
2017 Michael D. Darcy, MD, FSIR	IR training and the pursuit of excellence
2018 Timothy P. Murphy, MD, FSIR	Still Crazy After All These Years
2019 Alan H. Matsumoto, MD, FSIR	Patients and Patience: Why Interventional Radiologists Need Both

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SIR Gold Medal and Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecturer

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