28 May 2010 - The world’s largest embolization meeting – Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies Meeting (GEST) US 2010 – has been judged a great success, bringing together 900 registered delegates from all over the world (45 countries), all under one roof.

Taking place in the US for the first time, the goal of GEST US 2010 was to highlight continual research and innovation in the field of embolization.

This fourth annual GEST Meeting was created by directors Drs Jafar Golzarian, Marc Sapoval and Ziv Haskal, and, for 2011, held in partnership with the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR).

The next GEST meeting will take place in Paris from April 27 to April 30 2011 and will return to the US in 2012

30 April 2010 - GEST’s key sponsors will be running a series of symposia set to equip delegates with the latest informationabout what’s hot and what’s not in the world of embolization materials.From Thursday 6 May to Saturday 8 May, sessions will be run by Celonova, Biocompatibles, Terumo, Siemens, Cook Medical, Boston Scientific, Biosphere Medical, AGA Medical and Philips.

Breakfast and evening symposia sessions last 30 minutes each.

Lunchtime symposia last 45 minutes each with lunch provided.

29 April 2010 - At this year's Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies (GEST) meeting, GEST Director Dr. Marc Sapoval and his team from Paris will carry out a live demonstration of a complex embolization procedure.

On Thursday 6 May, between 7.30 and 9.30, the very first Master Class will feature virtual reality embolization of a post biopsy AVF fistula with the use of coils and plugs.

28 April 2010 - For anyone attending the Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies (GEST) meeting this year in San Francisco, we urge up to put your hands up if you want to go to a Hands-On Session.

With sessions running everyday in the Hands-On Village, GEST directors urge delegates to get themselves along to check out these interesting sessions. All applications are treated on a first come first serve basis so make sure you don’t miss out!

Aimed at complementing the GEST 2010 Master Classes, these in depth sessions will be run by some of GEST’s major sponsors.

23 April 2010 - Dr. Golzarian, one of the GEST co-founders is the guest Editor of the April issue of Endovascular Today.

The timing of this issue’s publication is nicely aligned with the upcoming GEST meeting in San Francisco, on May 6-9. Many of the articles in the edition cover material that will be explored in further detail at the Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies (GEST) meeting in San Francisco this May.

“Embolization procedures have become an integral part of modern interventional therapies, witnessing a remarkable surge primarily driven by improvement in microcatheter and imaging technologies and new embolic materials such as detachable coils, plugs, particles, and drug-eluting beads,” Dr Golzarian said in his editorial.