Apply for the 2025 IO Essentials Scholarship

SIO’s dedicated early career programming at our Annual Scientific Meeting – the IO Essentials Program – opened its annual scholarship application, offering free registration and a travel stipend to qualifying applicants. MS-1 - PGY-6 and trainees within the first five years of their IO career are eligible to apply!

Applications for the SIO 2025 IO Essentials Scholarship have closed. Decisions will be sent to all applicants by Early October, 2024.

Join us in Las Vegas during the SIO 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting to participate in live IO Essentials programming. The brightest minds in interventional oncology have designed this program for interventional oncology and radiology students, residents, and early career physicians within the first five years of their IO careers.

By attending this event, you will:

  • Collect tips and technical how-to’s for building a successful clinical practice and career in IO
  • Expand your network, including peers and pioneers in the field
  • Get up to speed on cutting-edge IO research and treatment algorithms
  • Understand the latest clinical and translational research as it relates to patient care

Scholarship Benefits

Accepted Scholars to the IO Essentials program at the SIO 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting will receive the following benefits:

  • Complimentary membership to SIO through 31 December 2025
  • Complimentary registration to the SIO 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 30 January - 3 February, 2025
  • Stipend for travel expenses to the SIO 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting
    • Local - $200 USD
    • Domestic - $750 USD
    • International - $1000 USD

 

Schedule

Schedule information is subject to change. Additional faculty details to be added as invitations are accepted. Last edited 9 October 2024. Please refer to the full program schedule for more information.

Thursday, 30 January 2025
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

IO Essentials: Breakfast and Introductions

Moderator: Irene Bargellini,  MD, Candiolo Cancer Institute and University of Turin

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

IO Essentials: Tools of IO

Moderators: Muneeb Ahmed, MD, FSIR, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School; Laura Crocetti, MD, PhD, EBIR; University of Pisa

  • Basics of Ablation: Heat, Cold, Electricity, Joseph Erinjeri, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • How I Choose: Ablation Modalities, Brandon M. Key, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Basics of Beads: Bland, Drug-Eluting, Radioactive Resorbable, Erica Alexander, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • How I Choose: Embolics, John D. Louie, MD, Stanford University
10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

IO Essentials: Sponsored Content 1

11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

IO Essentials: Lunch with Faculty

Faculty: Stephen Solomon, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Alda Tam, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Terence P. Gade, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania; Sarah B. White, MD, MS, Medical College of Wisconsin; Jack Jennings, MD, PhD, FACR, FSIR, FCIRSE, Washington University; Nicholas Fidelman, MD, University of California San Francisco; Isabel Gala Newton, MD, PhD, VASDMC and UCSD; Rony Avritscher, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Irene Bargellini,  MD, Candiolo Cancer Institute and University of Turin; Robert Suh, MD, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, MD, University of California Irvine; Nishita Kothary, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sean Merrill Tutton, MD, UCSD Health; Michael C. Soulen, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE, University of Pennsylvania; Julius Chapiro, MD, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine; Joseph Erinjeri, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Muneeb Ahmed, MD, FSIR, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School; Laura Crocetti, MD, PhD, EBIR; University of Pisa

12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

IO Essentials: Sponsored Content 2

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

IO Essentials: Interactive Periprocedural Care

Moderators: Irene Bargellini,  MD, Candiolo Cancer Institute and University of Turin; Vishal Kumar, MD, FSIR, University of California San Francisco/ZSFG

Panelists: Brandon M. Key, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin; Erica Alexander, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Ronald S. Arellano, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital; David S. Wang, MD, FSIR, Stanford Medicine

3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

IO Essentials: Sponsored Content 3

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

IO Essentials: First Day Wrap-up and Your Path Through the Program

Moderator: Irene Bargellini,  MD, Candiolo Cancer Institute and University of Turin

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

IO Essentials Welcome Reception

Friday, 31 January 2025
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast and Industry Symposia

Scholars may attend the symposium of their choice.

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

President's Welcome & Dr. Sidney Wallace and Dr. Michael J. Wallace Distinguished Lecture

  • President's Welcome, Muneeb Ahmed, MD, FSIR, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
  • Program Chair's Program Overview, Nicholas Fidelman, MD, University of California San Francisco
  • Wallace Lecturer's Laudation, Sarah B. White, MD, MS, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Dr. Sidney Wallace and Dr. Michael J. Wallace Distinguished Lecture, Michael C. Soulen, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

SIO 2025: 25 Years Past and Future

Moderators: Nicholas Fidelman, MD, University of California San Francisco; Muneeb Ahmed, MD, FSIR, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School

  • Medical Devices, John Kaufman, MD, MS, OHSU/Cook Medical
  • Basic and Translational Research, Jens Ricke, MD, LMU Munich
  • Computational Advances, Judy Gichoya, MD, FSIM, Emory University
  • Educating the Next Generation of Interventional Oncologists, Quinn Meisinger, MD, University of California San Diego
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch and Industry Symposia

Scholars may attend the symposium of their choice.

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Science and Industry Welcome Reception

All attendees are invited to join us to celebrate the start of the 2025 Annual Meeting. This networking reception will include poster and award presentations in the Exhibit Hall.

Saturday, 1 February
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast and Industry Symposia

Scholars may attend the symposium of their choice.

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Scientific Oral Abstracts

Moderators: Isabel Gala Newton, MD, PhD, VASDMC and UCSD; Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, MD, University of California Irvine

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch and Industry Symposia

Scholars may attend the symposium of their choice.

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

IO Essentials Sponsored Content 4

Sunday, 2 February
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast and CME Session: Optimal Preparation and Treatment Endpoints in cTACE

Breakfast will be provided. Following the overview, participants will engage in hands-on learning at workstations supervised by expert faculty.

  • Overview, Michael C. Soulen, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE, University of Pennsylvania
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

IO Essentials Sponsored Content 5

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Scientific Oral Abstracts

Moderators: Isabel Gala Newton, MD, PhD, VASDMC and UCSD;  Brad J. Wood, MD, NIH NCI NIBIB

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch and Industry Symposia

Scholars may attend the symposium of their choice.