Muneeb Ahmed
Tracing back his line to interventional radiology (IR), Muneeb Ahmed, interventional radiologist and the current president of the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO), told...
Patrick Haage
As a champion of innovation and forward movement in his chosen field of interventional radiology (IR), Patrick Haage’s career is no less a reflection...
Jack Jennings
Jack Jennings is a professor of radiology and chief of musculoskeletal radiology for Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine...
Alda Tam
Alda Tam is an interventional radiologist and professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, and is current president...
Farah Gillan Irani
“Even , healthcare costs are spiralling, so we are also learning how to be prudent.” Farah Gillan Irani is an Indian-born and educated interventional...
Theresa Caridi
“My interest in understanding and tackling health disparities has grown while here in Alabama as I have become increasingly aware of the imbalance of...
Aghiad Al-Kutoubi
“When I relocated to Lebanon, I was the only person with practical experience and expertise in EVAR in the Middle East.” It was...
Dimitrios Filippiadis
“The spine is an area where interventional radiologists play a crucial role in both diagnosis and therapeutic management of a variety of pathologies”.
Dimitrios...
Alban Denys
Alban Denys is a French-Swiss interventional radiologist who was one of the founding members of the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO). He has held...
Yasuaki Arai
“I do not want interventional radiology to be a treatment for the rich, nor for those who live in the wealthiest countries.” Yasuaki Arai...
Karim Valji
“I took a giant leap of faith and applied for a radiology residency with the sole intention of doing interventional radiology (IR). I was...
Laura Crocetti
“I think the future success of ablation was truly unforeseeable, in 1986, when Tito Livraghi published his first paper about ethanol injection in a...
Maureen Kohi
“I strongly believe that you cannot be what you cannot see. If you want more women or under-represented minorities (URMs) to enter the field...
Philippe L Pereira
Chair of the 2022 and 2023 European Conference on Interventional Oncology (ECIO), Philippe L Pereira muses on the status of interventional oncology (IO) in...
Parag Patel
From an early understanding in medical school that interventional radiology (IR) was “the future”, Parag Patel has dedicated his career to the discipline, notably...
Adam Hatzidakis
The first person to perform a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure (TIPS) in Greece, Adam Hatzidakis discusses his career-long love affair with the hepato-biliary-pancreatic...
Matthew Callstrom
President-elect of the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO), Matthew Callstrom discusses his journey into cancer care, and how advances in percutaneous ablation have shaped...
Bill Rilling
Instrumental to the development of interventional oncology in the USA and globally, William (Bill) Rilling tracks how the discipline has grown over the course...
Matthew Johnson
Inspired by his father, an interventional radiologist who used to shape catheters over the stove at home, Matthew Johnson switched from a residency in...
Ricardo García-Mónaco
Establishing the first Interventional Radiology department in Argentina, Ricardo García-Mónaco is a pioneer of minimally invasive, image-guided therapies in South America. Looking back on...
Konstantinos Katsanos
Following the publication of a meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Heart Association late last year that reported an increased association of mortality...
Alex Tang
“Deep in my heart, I knew interventional radiology (IR) had a tremendous future,” Alex Tang tells Interventional News. Looking back at his career, Tang...
Laura Findeiss
After coming across interventional radiology in a “fortunate accident”, the 2019–2020 Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) president Laura Findeiss talks to Interventional News about...
Gerard Goh
President of the Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia (IRSA) and European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) examiner for Australia and New Zealand, Gerard Goh...
Stephen B Solomon
Stephen B Solomon, chief, Interventional Radiology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA and president of the Society for Interventional Oncology (SIO)...
Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan, consultant vascular and interventional radiologist, St George’s Hospital, London, chairman of the CIRSE EBIR committee and a deputy editor on CVIR, told Interventional News...
Andrew Holden
“If you are clinically skilled, achieve a high level of technical training in interventional radiology procedures, have the best audited results for a procedure...
Matthew A Mauro
“One of the biggest challenges for interventional radiology in 2017 is that we are in desperate need of outcomes research that documents the value...
Bob Abraham
Canada’s recent recognition as a subspecialty at the national level has helped to raise awareness amongst other disciplines, healthcare policymakers and hospital administrators. “We...
Gireesh Mukund Warawdekar
“Interventional radiology has always been characterised by its innovative spirit. We are now seeing progress with new procedures being developed to create percutaneous arteriovenous fistulae....
Gregory John Slater
"War (as in turf war) is an emotional word because, in wars, people get hurt. I believe we truly care about the patients we...
Constantinos T Sofocleous
“As interventional radiology is established as a free-standing specialty, an international outreach effort to establish guidelines for different interventional treatments is certainly needed,” Constantinos...
Gabriel Bartal
“In the early days, I used to have to cut a 7F plastic tube, make side holes, send it off for sterilisation and shape...
Lindsay Machan
“Interventional radiologists should not be cavalier about protecting ideas, but focusing on maximising rewards has sidelined more ideas than it has helped individual inventors....
Gao-Jun Teng
In the future, will interventional radiology be a subspecialty of radiology, or surgery? asks Gao-Jun Teng, professor of Radiology, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing,...
Bien Soo Tan
Bien Soo Tan, senior consultant, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, and chairman of the Asia Pacific Congress of Cardiovascular and Interventional...
James B Spies
The evolution of embolization over the past decade has been remarkable and it has fundamentally changed our field, James B Spies, professor of Radiology,...
Francisco Cesar Carnevale
Francisco Cesar Carnevale tells Interventional News why prostatic artery embolization is an amazing procedure and why more needs to be done for paediatric interventional...
Liz Kenny
Internationally-renowned radiation oncologist, Liz Kenny, a longstanding supporter of interventional radiology, shares her views in Interventional News. Kenny, who is a senior radiation oncologist...
Iain Robertson
Iain Robertson is the current president of the British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR) and is the co-author of Interventional radiology: a survival guide,...
Chuck Ray
Chuck Ray is a professor and vice-chair of radiology at University of Colorado, Colorado, USA. He has served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the...
Scott Goodwin
Scott Goodwin spoke to Interventional News about his aims as the next president of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), his role in pioneering...
Luigi Solbiati
“Refusing an interventional oncology procedure if it is not clinically or technically indicated, or if it is exceedingly risky, should not be perceived as...
Kyung J Cho
Kyung J Cho, William Martel Professor, Department of Radiology, Vascular/Interventional Radiology, University of Michigan Health Systems, USA, was awarded the 2012 SIR Gold Medal...
Anna Maria Belli
A former president of the British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR) and current vice president of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe...
Riccardo Lencioni
As a former football referee, Riccardo Lencioni tells Interventional News readers how important it is to respect the rules —how important it is to...
Timothy P Murphy
The most interesting developments in interventional radiology at this moment are: the expanding role for interventional radiologists in acute stroke care, the opportunities afforded...
James F Benenati
James F Benenati, medical director of the Noninvasive Vascular Lab, Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute, has recently taken up the presidency of the Society...
Jan Peregrin
Jan Peregrin, CIRSE president 2009, told Interventional News that the miniaturisation of interventional devices hold great promise and that this will allow many clinical...
David Kessel
The new president of the British Society of Interventional Radiology, David Kessel, told Interventional News how interventional radiology has a growing role in major...
Malgorzata Szczerbo-Trojanowska
Malgorzata Szczerbo-Trojanowska, Poland’s most senior interventional radiologist, and president of ECR 2010 told Interventional News how she felt when she joined a male-dominated field,...
Ernst-Peter Strecker
Professor Ernst-Peter Strecker invented his first bare-metal stent in around 1985. He was also one of the first to implant a stent in a...
Brian Stainken
Interventional News’ Co-Editor-in-Chief, and new president of the Society of Interventional Radiology, Brian Stainken, on "organising the aisles" of the interventional superstore, and the...
Afshin Gangi
Professor Afshin Gangi is a well-respected interventional radiologist from the University Hospital of Strasbourg, France. He recently spoke to Interventional News about his career...
Peter Gaines
Interventional News talks to Peter Gaines, current President of the British Society of International Radiology (BSIR), about the important issues facing IR today, how...
