29th Annual Meeting Committee Brian F. Stainken, MD, Chair James F. Benenati, MD, Chair,

Scientific Program John A. Kaufman, MD, Chair,

Workshops Alan H. Matsumoto, MD Past Chair

2004 Abstract Reviewers Murray Asch, MD Gary J. Becker, MD James F. Benenati, MD Patricia Burrows, MD Howard Chrisman, MD Kevin Dickey, MD Bart Dolmatch, MD Chieh-Min Fan, MD Marshall Hicks, MD Krishna Kandarpa , MD, PhD John A. Kaufman, MD Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD Matthew A. Mauro, MD Dusan Pavcnik, MD, PhD Frank Rivera , MD Michael C. Soulen, MD Brian F. Stainken, MD Lenny Tan, MD George P. Teitlebaum, MD Karim Valji, MD Hans-Joachim Wagner, MD, PhD Christoph L. Zollikofer, MD

2004 Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award Abstract Reviewers Brian F. Stainken, MD James Duncan, MD, PhD James F. Benenati, MD John A. Kaufman, MD Matthew S. johnson, MD Robert LeVeen, MD, PhD Ziv Haskal, MD

2003-2004 SIR Executive Council Michael C. Brunner, MD, President Janette D. Durham, MD, MBA,

President-elect Curtis A. Lewis, MD, MBA, Secretary Richard B. Towbin, MD, Treasurer Peter B. Lauer, Executive Director Michael D. Darcy, MD, Immediate

Past-President John D. Fulco, MD, AMA Delegate,

ex-officio Katharine L. Krol, MD, Councilor,

Health Policy & Economics

Division

vi

2004 SIR Society Structure

M. Victoria Marx, MD, CounCilor,

Internal Affairs Division Matthew A. Mauro, MD, CIRREF

Chair

Timothy P. Murphy, MD, Councilor­

at-Large

Albert A. Nemcek, jr. , MD,

Councilor, Education Division Rodney A. Raabe, MD, Councilor-at­

Large David Sacks, MD, Councilor,

Standards Division Michael C. Soulen, MD, Councilor,

Practice & Professional Affairs

. Division

Brian F. Stainken, MD, Councilor,

Annual Meeting Division Scott O. Trerotola, MD, Councilor­

at-Large Karim Valji, MD, Editor, jVIR

Peter B. Lauer, CAE, Executive

Director

2003-2004 CIRREF Board of Directors Matthew Mauro, MD, Chair Joseph Bonn, MD, Vice Chair Krishna Kandarpa, MD, PhD, Past

Chair Curtis Bakal, MD, MPH, Member-at­

Large William Culp, MD, Development

Chair Scott Goodwin, MD, Member-at­

Large Robert LeVeen , MD, Grant Review

Chair Richard Towbin, MD, SIR Treasurer Gordon McLennan, MD, Research

Committee Co-Chair John Rundback, MD, Clinical Trials

Task Force Committee Chair Harvey Wiener, DO, Legs for Life®

Committee Chair Kenneth Wright, PhD, Research

Committee Co-Chair Stanley Baum, MD Emeritus (Ex­

officio)

Paul Consigny, PhD Industry

Advisory Committee Chair (Ex­

offiCiO) Karim Valji, MD, jVIR Editor (Ex­

Officio) Peter Lauer, Executive Director, SIR

SIR Staff Peter B. Laue r, CAE, Executive

Director Tricia E. McClenny, Associate

Executive Director Michael R. Mabry, Assistant

Executive Director for Policy

Saima Baig, Accounting Assistant Hilary Bikowski, Director of

Education Rita Booker, Accountant Marcia Cram, Accounting Assistant Susan M. Dowd, Customer Service

Coordinator Susie Evenden, Exhibits Assistant Jennifer Gajewski, Project

Coordinator Beverlee Galstan, Director of

Corporate Relations Robin Gill, Membership

Representative joy O. Gornal, Membership

Manager B.J. Hillier, Meetings and Education

Coordinator Erica Holland, Director of Meetings Dawn Hopkins, Senior Manager for

Reimbursement Keith Hume, CIRREF Managing

Director Debbie Katsarelis , Special Projects

Coordinator Patti Lucas, IR News Managing

Editor Cathy D. Mendelsohn, Director of

Pu blica tions Lindsay M. Moss, Communications

SpeCialist Emily Oehler Murdoch,

Communications Manager Jan Richards, Senior CME Manager Diane Shnitzler, R.Ph. , Director of

Communications Susan Siler, Executive Assistant Carolyn Strain, Research Manager Diane Strebel, Marketing Manager Phillip R. White, Manager of

Information Systems

SIR Headquarters Office 10201 Lee Hwy, Suite 500 (703) 691-1805 or (800) 488-7284

phone (703) 691-1855 fax info@SIRweb.org