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Filip Banovac, M.D., chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Georgetown University, has been named section chief of Interventional Radiology within the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The Vanderbilt Interventional Radiology Residency has become one of the first accredited IR residency programs in the country. The accreditation is effective 7/1/2016. This new residency is a categorical 6-year program, consisting of a surgical internship, three years of predominately diagnostic radiology and two years of interventional radiology. After successful completion of the program, residents will be eligible for the new ABR "IR/DR" certification. The Vanderbilt program is accredited for 3 residents per year.

Best Doctors in America, an annual listing of the nation’s physicians who are peer selected for inclusion, is again acknowledging the expertise of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) faculty. This year’s list of Tennessee hospitals, provided to VUMC by Best Doctors in America, includes eight of our radiologists:

Jake Block, M.D., associate professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, is one of those people who likes to stay busy. That trait, along with seemingly boundless energy and enthusiasm, serves him well in his various clinical and administrative leadership roles helping to further Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s diagnostic imaging mission.

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is accepting applicants into a novel program aimed at students seeking to transform health and health care through medical innovation. Tailored to engineers and applied scientists with Ph.D. degrees, the Medical Innovators Development Program (MIDP) at Vanderbilt will be the first of its kind in the country.