Presented on April 3, 2016
Presented by Dr. Michael Dake

Dr. Dake is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he completed an internship, residency and chief residency year in internal medicine. Dr. Dake completed fellowship training in pulmonary diseases and a residency and chief residency in radiology at the University of California San Francisco, where he went on to complete subspecialty training in vascular and interventional radiology under the direction of Ernest J. Ring, MD, FSIR (the founder of SIR Foundation), and in 1988 moved to Miami to join Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR, at the newly founded Miami Vascular Institute. Dr. Dake is a major contributor to the development of vascular stentgrafting and image guided treatments for arterial and venous diseases. Dr. Dake is an author or co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and the holder of 25 U.S. patents.

He delivered SIR’s Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecture at the Society’s 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting in 2007 and received the 2012 SIR Foundation Leaders in Innovation Award. He was awarded the 2015 The recipient of Magna and Summa Cum Laude Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Exhibit Awards, he has delivered more than 1,600 invited presentations, including 21 eponymous lectures, and authored 101 book chapters and 512 published abstracts. Dr. Dake’s current research is focused primarily on endovascular device development, vascular biology and molecular imaging. Recent notable investigative work from his laboratory includes published reports on in vivo vascular tissue engineering research.