The Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) selected a paper by Dr. Norman Kleiman, associate research scientist in the department of environmental health sciences the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, as its Outstanding Clinical Research Paper in 2013. The award which includes a monetary prize by the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation is acknowledgment of the essential, best-in-class research that is conducted in interventional radiology and published within JVIR. The awardees were chosen by a review of all manuscripts published in 2013, voted by the editorial board members, and selected by the editor-in-chief.