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SIR 2025 Gold Medal recipient: Yasuaki Arai

Yasuaki Arai, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE, received his medical degree at Jikei University School of Medicine. After 5 years of training at the Tokyo Medical Center, he worked in the department of diagnostic and interventional radiology at the Aichi Cancer Center. After 7 years at Aichi Cancer Center, he became chief of the department of diagnostic radiology at the National Cancer Center. He also served as the director of the hospital between 2012–2016, and as the president of Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology from 2014–2017. He has developed new devices, such as an implantable port system, angio-CT system and a tip-deflecting microcatheter, and new techniques, such as the percutaneous catheter placement for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy, the transjugular transhepatic peritoneovenous shunt for intractable ascites, and the creation of extraanatomical bypass for occluded canal organ. He also organized the Japan Interventional Radiology in Oncology Study Group in 2003, which conducts over 30 clinical studies in the field of IR to pursue evidence. He has published more than 200 scientific papers in major journals and is an associate editor of several leading journals, including the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. He has also served as a consultant of medical devices for Japanese government agencies. He has given spirited lectures related to IR that have greatly influenced young interventional radiologists. He has received many awards and honors from international IR organizations, including the European Conference on Interventional Oncology’s Honorary Lecture in 2015, the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe’s (CIRSE’s) Distinguished Fellow in 2017, the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology’s Gold Medal in 2021, and CIRSE’s Josef Roesch Lecture in 2023. After retiring from the National Cancer Center in 2018, he has been actively working as a guest researcher at the National Cancer Center, a guest professor at Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine and Saitama Medical University, a clinical professor of St. Marianna University of Medicine, and a chief doctor of Uonuma City Koide Hospital.