On August 6, 2020, Van Halbach, MD, clinical professor of Radiology, Neurological Surgery, Neurology, and Anesthesiology at UC San Francisco gave the Grant Hieshima Luminary Lecture at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) Annual Meeting. This is the SNIS’ biggest honor and the first year of the lecture’s investiture for late Grant Hieshima, MD, longtime UCSF faculty member and pioneer in the field of neurointerventional radiology. Dr. Hieshima started the program at UCSF in 1986 along with Drs. Alexander Margulis, T. Hans Newton, David Norman and Charles Wilson. He was the inaugural recipient of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s Luminary lecture in 2007.
Dr. Halbach first met Dr. Hieshima while he was completing his medical training at UCLA. It was this meeting that convinced Dr. Halbach to enter the emerging field of neuorinterventional…
