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In conversation with Maria Antonella Ruffino
Vascular interventional radiologist Maria Antonella Ruffino (Interventional Radiology, IIMSI, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland) discusses her experience from the "men's world" of endovascular interventions,...
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...
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...
Interventional News Issue 88—November 2022 US Edition
Interventional News 88 Highlights:
The importance of putting patients first during multidisciplinary collaboration
A discussion with IR societies on the future of hybrid meetings...
Interventional News Issue 88—November 2022 Edition
Interventional News 88 Highlights:
The importance of putting patients first during multidisciplinary collaboration
A discussion with IR societies on the future of hybrid meetings...
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)...
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...
