SIR names new president, board members

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has named Robert A. Lookstein, MD, as its new president for the 2025 to 2026 term.

Lookstein, an interventional radiologist and professor of radiology and surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, assumed the presidency at the SIR 2025 annual meeting in Nashville on April 1. The meeting started March 29 and will continue until April 2.

Other incoming officers to the SIR’s 2025-2026 board of directors include President-elect Saher S. Sabri, MD, of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, in Washington, DC; Secretary Kelvin Hong, MD, of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore; and immediate past president Robert J. Lewandowski, MD, of Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Other board positions filled (appointed and elected) include the following:

SIR board of directors

• Raymond W. Liu, MD: SIR and SIR Foundation treasurer
• Mark L. Lessne, MD: director, private practice
• Constantino S. Peña, MD: director, at-large
• Constantinos T. Sofocleous, MD, PhD: director, at-large

SIR and SIR Foundation steering council divisions

• Sanjeeva P. Kalva, MD: international division councilor
• Charles Y. Kim, MD: 2026-2031 annual meeting program committee

Clinical specialty councils

• Srini Tummala, MD: peripheral arterial disease clinical specialty council vice chair
• Rex M. Pillai, MD: venous clinical specialty council vice chair
• Teodora Bochnakova, MD: women’s health clinical specialty council vice chair

Additionally, the SIR Foundation board appointed Clifford R. Weiss, MD, as the chair of the SIR Foundation board of directors. Weiss is a professor of radiology and radiological science at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.