- Research: This year, GEST will premier approximately 70 adjudicated scientific abstracts and posters in San Francisco, highlighting the future of embolization research from around the world, as well as clinical research that will affect your current oncologic, gyn, arterial, and venous embolic interventions.

- Evidence: GEST provides multiple plenary and review lectures on materials, case selection, advances and changes in practice, practice building, etc, from a large world-renowned faculty. Lectures are short, tight presentations intended to dig deep on individual topics.

- Technical Teaching: GEST showcases new, trademarked MasterClasses, the Ablation Alley, Hands-on demos for devices, and case based discussion sections.

Among embolization press highlights is a paper in this month’s JVIR (April 2010), a joint document by SIR, CIRSE and CIR on standard of practice for embolization. Go to www.jvir.org

Subject: guidelines for embolization published in April edition of JVIR

Title of article: Guidelines for Peripheral and Visceral Vascular Embolization Training Joint Writing Groups of the Standards of Practice Committees for the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), and Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CIRA).

Authors: Golzarian J, Sapoval MR, Kundu S, Hunter DW, Brountzos EN, Geschwind JF, Murphy TP, Spies JB, Wallace MJ, de Baere T, Cardella JF.

For more information about this, check out the Credentials, skills and training section on Friday May 7th from 7.30 to 9.30 Topics outlined are:

• The SIR/CIRSE joint standard of practice on embolization. Speaker - Marc Sapoval
• Societal perspectives on embolization practice. Speaker - James Benenati
• How to continue doing what you are great at? Speaker - John Kaufman
• Managing divergent fishes in the same pool. Speaker - Ernie Ring