SIR 2023 Medical Student Scholar Program

The SIR 2023 Medical Student Scholar Program provides medical students with the opportunity to learn about IR at an early stage in their medical careers.

Scholar program benefits:

• Free registration to SIR 2023
• Special recognition during the meeting
• Dedicated medical student programming Saturday, March 4

Application criteria:

• Applicants must be medical students within the U.S. or Canada.  
• Applicants must be an SIR Medical Student Member.
• Prior SIR Medical Student Travel Scholarship recipients are not eligible to apply.
• Deadline to apply: Sat., Oct 8, midnight ET

The following required application materials to be submitted within the online application:

• Current CV
• Answers to each of the following three short essay questions:

1. In 250 words or less, please describe what role does interventional radiology play in making contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 
2. In 250 words or less, please describe how you were exposed to the field of interventional radiology (or what about IR interests you most). 
3. In 250 words or less, please describe what you hope to gain by attending the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting.

• An optional letter of recommendation from an attending physician (the attending physician does not have to be an interventional radiologist).  ​After you submit your online scholar program application, SIR will send you a link where an attending physician can submit an optional letter of recommendation on your behalf. 

***If you intend to submit an optional letter of recommendation, it is also due by Sat., Oct 8, midnight ET. Please submit your application in advance of the submission due date to ensure your attending has enough time to submit your letter.

Post-meeting essay requirement

Upon returning home, scholarship recipients must submit a 500-word essay about their experience, which may be published in part or in its entirety in society publications or on the SIR website. In your essay, please describe your experiences at the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting. Once the final essay is received, scholarship recipients will receive their $1,000 stipends via wire transfer.

Questions about applying, contact Basia Nowakowski, Program Manager, Graduate Medical Affairs.

Congratulations to the SIR 2023 Medical Student Scholars: 

• Muhammad Akram, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
• Ahmad Alach, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, Ca.
• Chidumebi Alim, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
• Isabella Amador, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville
• Thea Anderson, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Conn.
• Alexander Argame, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, Ca.
• Younes Attlassy, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York City 
• Ankit Baghel, Stanford University School of Medicine, Ca.
• Venkatesh Balaji, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, N.Y.
• McKenzie Bentley, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Lexington
• Steven Bishay, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, Tn.
• Brittany Brookner, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
• Jacob Byers, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio
• Christina Caviasco, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, N.J.
• Brandon Chu, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
• Noah Collazo, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, Caguas, P.R.
• Timothy Cooke, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences, Brooklyn
• Dawson Cooper, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Harika Dabbara, Boston University School of Medicine, Mass.
• Katrina Falk, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Garrett Fisher, Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine, Fairborn, Ohio
• Vikram Gupta, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C.
• Matt Howlett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Sayyed Hussain, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, N.Y.
• Viknesh Kasthuri, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, R.I.
• Simon Kidanemariam, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, R.I.
• Kacper Kubiszewski, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando
• Soryan Kumar, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, R.I.
• Amanda Laguna, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, R.I.
• Kayla LaRue, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Ky.
• Yu An Lin, William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Hattiesburg, Ms.
• Richard Liu, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio
• Tyler Lynd, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
• Camden MacDowell, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J.
• Michael Margron, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, N.H.
• Aazrin Mir, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
• Anisha Mittal, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey
• Samantha Mujica, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada Las Vegas
• Elen Mussie, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Tu Nguyen, University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
• Shen Ning, Boston University School of Medicine, Ma.
• Rommell Noche, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, North Haven, Conn.
• Sarah Nwia, Tulane University School of Medicine, LA
• Soo Hwan Park, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, N.H.
• Shirin Parsa, The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
• Steven Pollard, Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lillington, N.C.
• Ashna Raiker, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, N.Y.
• Abinaya Ramakrishnan, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
• Samuel Salazar, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami, Fl.
• Ishu Sivakumar, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
• Howard Smith, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, N.J.
• Nikolas Tsiouplis, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Thomas Turner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Stephanie Wallace, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
• Jerome Watts, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
• Atlee Witt, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tn.
• Gavin Yuan, New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y.
• Jingyan Yue, University of Texas at Houston McGovern Medical School
• Alia Zeid, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York City
• Ruixue Zhang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine