Rahmi Oklu MD, PhD
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Professor, Physician, Scientist; Director, Laboratory for Patient Inspired Engineering— Tweets are my own.
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The eagle has landed! Just received our shipment of Obsidio Gel!! 10 years in the making, our gel embolic agent from idea, to testing, to many NIH grants, and finally now in the market! Very exciting—looking forward to our first case!
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Precision embolization using Obsidio gel!! Our first case!! Instant hemostasis! Made the case 5 times faster, great visibility on fluoroscopy and CT!
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#obsidioembolic
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Look at the smiles! Because they are 10K miles away from home (Koç Uni Medical School, Istanbul), we had our own MATCH celebration with a massive chocolate Bundt cake and sushi! All excited about IR! Can’t wait to see what they will become in future!
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Our new journal cover! Needles w smart sensors can increase tissue targeting in image guided biopsies— great for rapid cancer diagnosis and selecting correct treatment! Solving practical problems
@MayoClinic
Arizona Interventional Radiology!
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3D printed door handle— “No Hands” —works great! From
@MayoClinic
Arizona Radiology 3D Printing Lab.
@khademh
#3Dprinting
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Congrats to my 3 post-doctoral research fellows from Koc University—they MATCHED! Dr. Enes Çevik is heading out to Wash U St Louis, one of the best integrated interventional Radiology programs and Dr. Dila Atar, Dr. Yusuf Demirlenk matched Ole Miss for radiology!
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Our paper on advancing tumor ablations and drug delivery is finally out! Great work to Hassan Albadawi MD, lead author, entire Minimally Invasive Therapeutics lab
@MayoClinic
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
and to
@SMitragotri
!!
@SIRmembers
@SIRRFS
@SIRspecialists
@SIO_Central
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Our state-of-the art medical 3D printing facility, “3D Innovation Lab,” is finally here
@MayoClinic
AZ! Ribbon cutting ceremony done, ready for service!
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@MayoClinicSOM
@3DPrintBoard
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From the Patient Inspired Engineering lab
@MayoClinic
AZ, congrats to the entire team! We show biomaterials can treat ruptured aneurysms. We believe this will change the way we treat aneurysms.
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@SIRRFS
@SIRmembers
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@ObsidioMed
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From Patient Inspired Engineering Laboratory
@MayoClinic
congrats to entire team for this cover article that just published in Advanced Materials! It describes a novel treatment of catastrophic bleeding of ruptured aneurysms.
@SIRmembers
@DeryaTR_
@KucukkayaIsmail
@KU_Hastanesi
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Looking for post-docs interested in translational bioengineering; should have MD and/or PhD. Research assistant positions are also available.
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From the Patient Inspired Engineer Lab
@MayoClinic
IR, great work to the team!! By occluding arteries w gels + drugs, able to deliver Nivolumab directly to target tissue w sustained daily release! Reduce toxicity and lower cost-great for patients!
@SIRspecialists
@MayoRadiology
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From the Lab of Patient Inspired Engineering
@MayoClinic
, a new class of biocompatible ionic liquid that can achieve durable embolization, deliver large drugs such as Nivolumab and achieve tissue ablation. Imagine single session chemical segmentectomy!
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Stroke patient ER 9:43 AM, CT 10:14, IR 10:26, Catheterized 10:44, Clot removed 11:20!!
#irad
@Angiologist
@khademh
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Super excited—The first Obsidio Center for Excellence course
@MayoClinic
Arizona with
@bsc_io
with live training. One year in the making—finally happening! We have physicians coming from all over US…very exciting! And, check out the coffee!
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
@SIRspecialists
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Our blood derived point-of-care embolic material for rapid hemostasis just published in Advanced Materials- great work to lab members
@MayoClinic
Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Lab.
@SIRmembers
@SIRspecialists
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
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From the Patient Inspired Engineering Laboratory
@MayoClinic
Arizona, Happy New Year! (Baklava from Gaziantep, Turkey to celebrate 2022!! it was amazing…)
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At the Mayo Clinic Regenerative Medicine meeting— the future is bright for our patients! Great to see so many friends and colleagues at the meeting
@shrikezhang
@DoctorQMd
@MayoClinic
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
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#SIR2022
Finally, after many NIH grants, many publications, and Herculean efforts, great to see our work at SIR!
@ObsidioMed
@khademh
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At a medical conference… we were asked to pick a sticker for the conference badge :) I guess this is the new norm…
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Looking to hire MDs and/or PhDs interested in Translational Bioengineering; 3 post-doc research positions are available
#MayoClinicJobs
@ScienceTM
@PostDocsForum
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Our novel gel embolic material for rapid arterial hemostasis is on the cover of Advanced Science-great work to team and lead author Hassan Albadawi MD from
@MayoClinic
AZ Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Lab.
@SIRspecialists
@SIRmembers
@GESTSymposium
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SIR2023! Great meeting… always awesome to see former and current post docs excited about IR!
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From the Minimally Invasive Therapeutics laboratory
@MayoClinic
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
on the future of vascular thrombectomy. Great job to lead author Seyda Gunduz MD!
@SIRmembers
@SIRRFS
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Prostate artery embolization using 3D printed models—
@MayoClinic
way! Great for patients, great for treatment planning, and great for procedure!
@khademh
@SIRRFS
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Portal vein embolization is performed to grow the left lobe of the liver so that when right lobe is resected, liver failure does not occur. Trans-Splenic approach is easy, faster and safe— all you need is a needle and ultrasound!
@MayoClinic
@khademh
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From the Laboratory for Patient Inspired Engineering, great work to the entire team— sustained delivery of immunotherapy from novel embolics! Thanks to my good friend Fiorenzo, from the Silk Lab, for the great collaboration!
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#SIR2022
Sid Alzubaidi MD, an interventionalist from
@MayoClinic
, presenting amazing clinical trial data on novel liver tumor ablation technology!
@AlzubaidiSid
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From IR lab
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
, Congrats to post-doc Dr. Enes Cevik for this outstanding work! PVE, segmental ablation, drug delivery using a novel liquid embolic formulation. Phase 1 data was recently presented at SIR2024.
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We are super excited!
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@SIRRFS
@IN_publishing
@ObsidioMed
@GESTSymposium
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@business
@canikligil
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How to make a face shield— forget 3D-Printing (takes too long and high cost). 1.5 inch sticky side down Velcro on two corners; attach 12 inch of std Velcro to these corners. Cut about 6 inch foam w sticky side down on transparent sheet...Ready to use!
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@khademh
@CNN
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Welcome to our newest post-doctoral research fellows from Antalya! They came with kabak tatlisi— my all time favorite desert from 7Mehmet!
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Thank you Dr. Waltman for teaching me the Waltman loop (8 years ago)! Stomach bleeding source blocked with high precision—power of Interventional radiology
@MayoClinic
IR-AZ.
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Legendary Prof Whitesides from Harvard giving a talk at ASU on soft robotics! Pure genius.
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#RSNA15
Mayo Clinic dominating 3D printing! They are great for patients and great for physicians! Fascinating!
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Prostate artery embolization
@MayoClinic
Arizona! Great Dyna-CT imaging correlation with angiography before and after embolization. Great alternative technique for patients with enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia).
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@SIRRFS
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Our brand new state-of-art C-arm (with two USB ports!) for the research lab just arrived! Thank you GE!!
@khademh
@generalelectric
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Blood to embolic material in 26 min—works better than coils! Future of embolization! From the
@MayoClinic
Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Lab just published in Advanced Materials
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@SIRRFS
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IVC filter w leg embedded within osteophyte! 3D printing helped patient understand complexity of case!
#irad
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Large liver cancer can be successfully treated with Y90 Therasphere segmentectomy. Precision embolization w high dose radioactive beads
@MayoClinic
AZ-IR can take patients without hope and give them hope. Hope= curative resection, down staging, liver transplantation.
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Regenerative medicine pioneer Prof Ali Khademhosseini from UCLA giving a lecture
@MayoClinic
Florida neurosurgery, hosted by its Chair, Dr. Quinones! Looking great guys!
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Our FIRST medical student symposium for our Interventional radiology residency program
@MayoClinic
Arizona is about to begin!!
@SIRRFS
#medical_student
@SIRspecialists
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From the Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory—gel embolic w tantalum microparticles for rapid hemostasis— 1 mo data on renal/iliac artery embo! Great work to Dr. Albadawi, lead author
@MayoClinic
AZ
@SIRmembers
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Lowe’s manager found out supplies were needed for making face shields—he personally gathered the items and refused to accept payment— instead thanked us for our service. Amazing...
@CNN
@MayoClinic
@khademh
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Great to see some of our residents at the
@MayoClinic
Arizona Interventional Radiology journal club!
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Manuscript on robotics for endovascular interventions— great job to research fellow Seyda Gunduz
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Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory
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Our superstar PA in Vascular & Interventional Radiology at Mayo Clinic Arizona just received the Allied Health Educator of the Year Award! What an awesome honor— well deserved.
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@MayoRadiology
@AmyHaraMD
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At SIR2018-LA— hanging out with the great Peter Mueller MD-Chief of IR at MGH- mentor, colleague, former boss!
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CONGRATS
@MayoClinic
Phoenix Interventional Radiology lab for getting TWO RO1 grants funded on novel IR devices!
@khademh
@wyattwdecker
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Our 2nd Annual Vascular & Interventional Radiology medical student symposium
@MayoClinic
AZ! Great turn-out, awesome presentations! Huge interest among medical students for IR!
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We are looking for an outstanding interventional radiologist— apply if interested!! Great benefits, pension, awesome IR Lab w multiple NIH R01 grants. There is no better IR practice than
@MayoClinic
Arizona!
@khademh
@SIRspecialists
@SIRRFS
@SIRmembers
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We are hiring!! Anyone interested please click on the link below for more info. This is a 100% Interventional Radiology position at the Mayo Clinic Arizona campus. Great practice, awesome hospital, great location. Any questions, feel free to reach out.
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Looking for post-docs to work on Translational Bioengineering at the NIH funded Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale— apply at:
@khademh
#bioengineering
#irad
#sir2018
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3D printed door handle Version 2– “No Hands” — it’s stronger and works even better. From
@MayoClinic
Arizona 3D Systems Lab. Happy to share STL files— send a message.
@khademh
#3Dprinting
@CNN
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Another beautiful day in Arizona! 90 min away skiing, fresh snow, sun shine. Even bumped into a colleague from
@MayoClinic
!!
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Our star summer research student from Stanford presenting his awesome work on vascular embolization using novel embolics! We wish Yash Pershad all the best!!
@MayoClinic
@yash_pershad
@AshishPershad
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#sir2022
Dr.David Woodrum, an interventional radiologist from
@MayoClinic
, presenting on MRI guided prostate ablations… amazing results—this is great for patients!
@SIRmembers
@MayoRadiology
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So great to see one of our
@MayoClinic
Arizona trainee as a Medical Student Scholar at the Society of Interventional Radiology conference!
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Our in vivo ultra high resolution micro-CT scanner is finally here!!! Thank you
@MayoClinic
!!!
@khademh
@SMitragotri
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Chad Mirkin w >690 papers, >1000 patents about to speak on his DNA based Nano particles and his ongoing 4 clinical trials.
@khademh
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Our latest cover from the Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory
@MayoClinic
Interventional Radiology, Arizona Campus...
@SIRspecialists
@SIRmembers
@SIRRFS
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Just announced--Mayo/ASU massive med tech innovation accelerator & bioengineering center for 2017! Very exciting!
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Blow-out bleeding from kidney; coil embolization under 15 minutes—ultimate kidney-sparing approach; saves the kidney, minimally invasive, low complications and low cost. Great for patients, great for physicians, great for healthcare.
@khademh
@MayoClinic
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Mayo Clinic breaks ground on $135M project on north Phoenix campus
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My patient came to clinic wearing this hat. Had to take a pic!! He had a life-saving TIPS procedure (trans jugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt)
@MayoClinic
Arizona interventional radiology.
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Interventional radiology journal club
@MayoClinic
AZ Great to see so many eager residents interested in IR!
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#BIRCworkshop2017
Group pic of meeting attendees-115 registered from 26 countries! Micro and Nano tech in Medicine
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At Max Planck Institute Center for Physical Intelligence; incredible research environment— looking forward to my talk on Monday!
@MayoClinic
@MayoRadiology
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Looking for two more outstanding post-docs to work in the NIH funded Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory
@MayoClinic
AZ Interventional Radiology division. Focus is translational bioengineering.
@khademh
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@MayoClinic
Arizona Interventional Radiology Medical Student Symposium— great way for students to learn about IR! Thank you to industry colleagues for demonstrating tumor ablation, stent deployment and catheter navigation!
@SIRspecialists
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Adrenal vein sampling
@MayoClinic
AZ Interventional Radiology! Rotational angiography for confirmation is a must!
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From our monthly
@MayoClinic
Arizona Interventional radiology and vascular surgery journal club!
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Join us at the 2018 Micro and Nano technologies in medicine; convergence of engineering and medicine!
@MayoClinic
@SIRspecialists
@SIRRFS
#medicine
@khademh
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Best conference I have ever attended... great science, great people, amazing hospitality, phenomenal venue, incredible food.
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Next generation embolics from the
@MayoClinic
Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory.
@SIRspecialists
@SIRRFS
@SIRmembers
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#irad
@Angiologist
Cover article todays Science Trans Med issue! Our Novel gel embolic to treat bleeding!
@khademh
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My friend Ali (
@khademh
) and I hanging out in Scottsdale--working on grants!!! Beautiful sunny skies... luv AZ!
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Prostate artery embolization
@MayoClinic
Arizona Interventional radiology— great procedure for the right patient. We have unique collaboration w world class urology team to best select patients for PAE. The TEAM is everything.
@SIRspecialists
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Our annual medical student symposium on Vascular & Interventional Radiology! See flyer for registration— come learn about the most exciting field in medicine!
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
@MayoClinic
@MayoClinicSOM
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Contrast enhanced murine kidney via micro-CT scanner reconstructed using Imprint 2.0! Can see glomeruli!
@khademh
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From the Laboratory for Patient Inspired Engineering
@MayoClinicAZ_IR
,
@MayoClinic
and our collaborators, our gel embolic material was just named MedTech Innovation of the Year! via
@PRWeb
@SIRmembers
@SIRspecialists
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Our superstar medical students from
@MayoClinic
Arizona at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual conference, Austin, Tx! Future IR residents—Congratulations on all the spectacular abstracts!
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An amazing, inspiring presentation by Dr. Kaelin (2019 Nobel Laureate) at ASCI. Fascinating story of hypoxia, HIF and the development of novel drug targets.
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At CES! Wow!! Now this is a conference… imagine RSNA x1000!
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Journal club outing
@MayoClinic
AZ Vascular & Interventional Radiology. Great food, great company, great scientific discussions.
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