William S. Rilling, MD, FSIR, is a Tenured Professor of Radiology and Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and his fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1996. He has been practicing at the Medical College of Wisconsin since 1996 and is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations in Radiology and is also the former Division Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, a role he held for 14 years.
Dr. Rilling has served on the Executive Council for the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), the Board of Directors for World Congress of Interventional Oncology (WCIO), SIR Foundation, and Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO). As Education Councilor for SIR, he co-directed the first three professional education meetings dedicated to Interventional Oncology, beginning in 2002. He has also served as the annual meeting chair for both SIR and WCIO and is the past-president for the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO). He has served as local and national principal investigator for several important IO trials and is currently active as a consultant for several companies working to improve outcomes in IO.