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New JVIR Editor Announcement
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New JVIR Editor Announcement Albert A. Nemcek, Jr., MD, has been appointed editorin-chief of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology for a five-year term beginning in January 2006. Effective with the February 2005 issue, Dr. Nemcek will serve as deputy editor to Editor-in-Chief Karim Valji, MD, who will complete his five-year term. Dr. Nemcek, Education Division Councilor on the SIR Executive Council, practices interventional radiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and is associate professor of radiology at Northwestern University Medical School. He has been a reviewer for JVIR since 1992, and served as section editor for the Journal’s “The Interventional Radiologist at Work” feature. He also serves as a reviewer for AJR, the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, the Journal of Interventional Radiology, and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology. Dr. Nemcek has been very active in SIR over the years, particularly in the area of education, as a member of the Education Committee, as chair of the CME Committee, as a member of the Annual Meeting Committee (of which he was Chair for the 2002 Annual Meeting) and, most recently, as Education Division Councilor for the Society. Dr. Nemcek received his MD from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine in 1982, after undergraduate studies at Stanford University. He completed his internship at Mercy Hospital and Med-
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ical Center in San Diego and his residency at UCSD Medical Center. In 1986 he went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, for fellowship studies in angiography, interventional radiology and visceral imaging. He has remained at Northwestern since then. In 2003, Nemcek was elected to the SIR Executive Committee as Education Division Councilor. In this role he oversaw the development of the DIRECT pathway to address the manpower shortage and need for enhanced clinical training in fellowship programs. Nemcek has been instrumental in developing an IR response to the new ACGME requirements for maintenance of certification. Nemcek’s extensive background in education will serve him well as JVIR editor. “I have had an abiding interest in the education of the practitioners of interventional radiology,” said Nemcek. “I feel that JVIR has provided a key role in this regard, and that it is likely to become even more important in the future as practitioners are required to address continuing educational needs and lifelong learning in the maintenance of certification process now being phased in via the American Board of Radiology and other medical specialties.” As required by SIR bylaws, Nemcek will step down from his position on the SIR Executive Committee, to be replaced by William Rilling, MD, appointed by the Executive Council.
New JVIR Editor Announcement Albert A. Nemcek, Jr., MD, has been appointed editorin-chief of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology for a five-year term beginning in January 2006. Effective with the February 2005 issue, Dr. Nemcek will serve as deputy editor to Editor-in-Chief Karim Valji, MD, who will complete his five-year term. Dr. Nemcek, Education Division Councilor on the SIR Executive Council, practices interventional radiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and is associate professor of radiology at Northwestern University Medical School. He has been a reviewer for JVIR since 1992, and served as section editor for the Journal’s “The Interventional Radiologist at Work” feature. He also serves as a reviewer for AJR, the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, the Journal of Interventional Radiology, and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology. Dr. Nemcek has been very active in SIR over the years, particularly in the area of education, as a member of the Education Committee, as chair of the CME Committee, as a member of the Annual Meeting Committee (of which he was Chair for the 2002 Annual Meeting) and, most recently, as Education Division Councilor for the Society. Dr. Nemcek received his MD from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine in 1982, after undergraduate studies at Stanford University. He completed his internship at Mercy Hospital and Med-
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ical Center in San Diego and his residency at UCSD Medical Center. In 1986 he went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, for fellowship studies in angiography, interventional radiology and visceral imaging. He has remained at Northwestern since then. In 2003, Nemcek was elected to the SIR Executive Committee as Education Division Councilor. In this role he oversaw the development of the DIRECT pathway to address the manpower shortage and need for enhanced clinical training in fellowship programs. Nemcek has been instrumental in developing an IR response to the new ACGME requirements for maintenance of certification. Nemcek’s extensive background in education will serve him well as JVIR editor. “I have had an abiding interest in the education of the practitioners of interventional radiology,” said Nemcek. “I feel that JVIR has provided a key role in this regard, and that it is likely to become even more important in the future as practitioners are required to address continuing educational needs and lifelong learning in the maintenance of certification process now being phased in via the American Board of Radiology and other medical specialties.” As required by SIR bylaws, Nemcek will step down from his position on the SIR Executive Committee, to be replaced by William Rilling, MD, appointed by the Executive Council.