President of Southeast University’s Zhongda Hospital, Teng Gaojun, along with two U.S. experts, has been awarded the SIR Gold Medal, the highest honor presented by the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) during its Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2017.
The award aims to acknowledge “distinguished and extraordinary service to SIR or to the discipline of interventional radiology (IR).” Dr. Teng, as a Chinese pioneer in IR, had been nominated for his continuous hard work during the past 30 years, which has greatly contributed to the standardization of practice, education and research in the field as well as the relations between Chinese Society of Interventional Radiology (CSIR) and many foreign institutions.
Prof. Teng is the first Chinese mainland SIR Gold Medal recipient in the society’s history. As for him, the medal means more than recognition of his personal achievements, but also serves as an acknowledgement of China’s advanced-level status in the IR treatment domain.
Interventional radiology pioneers minimally invasive image-guided (X-rays, CT, ultrasound, MRI, etc.) diagnosis and treatment of diseases in every organ system, which means reaching the source of a medical problem through blood vessels or directly through a tiny incision in the skin to deliver a precise, targeted treatment. With an obvious advantage of less risk, less pain and less recovery time than traditional surgery, it is, to some extent, a synonym of modern medicine.
Beginning in the 1980s, China’s IR practice is among one of the nation’s most rapidly developed medical specialties, and has formed its own therapy system.
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) is one of the world’s earliest and most influential academic societies in IR treatment, with a core purpose of improving patient care through image-guided therapy. Every year, the society bestows its ultimate accolade on two or three interventional radiologists. The SIR Gold Medal was established in 1996.
Along with Dr. Teng, this year’s Gold Medal recipients include Katharine L. Krol and Jeanne M. LaBerge, who “embody the inspiration and promise of IR’s limitless potential,” according to SIR 2016–17 President Charles E. Ray Jr.
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