The Kinked Wire

In our specialty, the stereotypes are ... you have to be a certain height. So I hear from women trainees and aspiring interventionalists that, "You know, you're too small ... You can't reach things." It's not true!—Barbara Nickel Hamilton, MDWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with interventional radiologist Barbara Nickel Hamilton, MD, about gender disparities in IR, the role the SIR Women in IR Section has played in addressing gender bias, and about her new book, Save Lives, Enjoy Your Own. Learn more about Dr. Nickel Hamilton's book or order a copy at her blog, tiredsuperheroine.com.Note: This episode was recorded on Sept. 29, 2020.SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology. Support the show

You see that it's appalling. What can you do, and what can we do as privileged human beings, to denounce this? To say that it's wrong? To not stand for it? To say, "You know what? That's not right and this is what I'm going to do about it."—Paul J. "P.J." Rochon, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with interventional radiologist Paul J. "P.J." Rochon, MD, FSIR, about health care disparities, our own implicit bias, the minority tax and the importance of taking a stand against racism. Read Dr. Rochon's IR Quarterly article on health care disparities.Note: This episode was recorded on Aug. 20, 2020.SIR thanks Sirtex for its support of this episode.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology.Support the show

"One of the big organizations that are groups of people/stakeholders that really change things, in terms of education for sure, are medical students, themselves .” —Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with interventional radiologist Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIR, about her role in the development of the IR Residency, the power of IRs-in-training to impact their future, and the pros and cons of retirement from interventional radiology practice.  Learn more about SIR's Residency Essentials curriculum program.Note: This episode was recorded on Aug. 18, 2020.SIR thanks Boston Scientific for its support of this episode.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology.Support the show

I wanted to practice clinically oriented IR. I thought, “If I go to a group and say that we should practice IR, then my group is going to say yes—you should go for it!” And as many people know, that’s not the way the world works.” —Raj Pyne, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with interventional radiologist Raj Pyne, MD, FSIR, about the development of IR services in his Rochester, New York, practice, leadership roles he's held for the Society of Interventional Radiology, and advice he gives today's interventional radiology residents.  Note: This episode was recorded on July 20, 2020.SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology. Support the show

The media portrayed scenes of just terror, frankly, particularly at Elmhurst Hospital. You see these lines of people that are waiting outside with so much anxiety and you know where that place is, you’ve driven past, you’ve seen with your own eyes that this is in your backyard. Then it starts hitting very close to home. —Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR, an interventional radiologist in New York, about the COVID-19 impact on his city and practice, changes in response since the early peak, and thrombosis trends in these patients.Find IR resources for COVID-19 planning, staffing, personal protective equipment and more at the SIR website, sirweb.org.Listen to more interventional radiologist perspectives on COVID-19:June 9: Atlanta, Ga. (Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR)May 20: Miami, Fla. (Costantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR)May 8: Chicago, Ill. (George Behrens, MD)April 29: Palo Alto, Calif. (Raj Shah, MD)April 20: Seattle, Wash. (R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR)Note: This episode was recorded on July 7, 2020.  SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology. Support the show

You don’t just put a filter in and forget about it—but that’s what used to happen. And when you put a filter in, it’s like anything else. We are clinical physicians in IR and vascular surgery, and when we put these filters in your patient, you need to follow them. That means clinical follow-up, and it may mean imaging follow-up. —Matthew S. Johnson, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with interventional radiologist Matthew S. Johnson, MD, FSIR, about the evolution of IVC filters, the upcoming IVC filter clinical practice guidelines, and the status of the FDA-requested PRESERVE Study. Read the IVC filter clinical practice guidelines.Note: This episode was recorded on June 1, 2020.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology. Support the show

We may not have had everything we wanted, but we had most of the things we needed. And most of the things we needed were our own ingenuity, our own innovativeness, that comes from practicing our own specialty, interventional radiology.  —Janice Newsome, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR, an interventional radiologist in Atlanta, about the COVID-19 impact on her city and practice, and the role of resiliency in the face of the pandemic.Find IR resources for COVID-19 planning, staffing, personal protective equipment and more at the SIR website, sirweb.org.Listen to more interventional radiologist perspectives on COVID-19:July 21: New York, N.Y. (Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR)May 20: Miami, Fla. (Costantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR)May 8: Chicago, Ill. (George Behrens, MD)April 29: Palo Alto, Calif. (Raj Shah, MD)April 20: Seattle, Wash. (R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR)Note: This episode was recorded on May 29, 2020.  SIR thanks Medtronic for its support of this episode.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology.Support the show

It’s kind of been a roller coaster ride. We’re all excited about everything that was gong to happen with the annual meeting … And then at the beginning of the year we started to get reports and that’s when we started saying, “What are we going to do? How is this going to happen?”—Constantino S. Peña, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with Constantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR, chair of the Society of Interventional Radiology 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting, about the decision to cancel the in-person meeting, shift to a virtual annual meeting, the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in the decision, and the evolution of education for medical professionals. Learn more about the virtual SIR 2020 annual meeting (June 13–14, 2020) at sirmeeting.org. Read a letter from Dr. Peña in a special section of IR Quarterly, SIR's interventional radiology magazine.Note: This episode was recorded on May 11, 2020.SIR thanks Sirtex for its support of this episode.Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology.Support the show

I am originally from a third-world country. When I moved to the United States, I couldn’t believe all the resources that were being wasted in America. And I feel that, for the first time in America, we are learning that. We are learning that we have to be cautious about wasting resources. —George Behrens, MDWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with George Behrens, MD, an interventional radiologist in Chicago, about the COVID-19 impact on his city, changes his practice has made in response, and how his native Venezuela has been faring during the pandemic.  Find IR resources for COVID-19 planning, staffing, personal protective equipment and more at the SIR website, sirweb.org.Listen to more interventional radiologist perspectives on COVID-19:July 21: New York, N.Y. (Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR)June 9: Atlanta, Ga. (Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR)May 20: Miami, Fla. (Costantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR)April 29: Palo Alto, Calif. (Raj Shah, MD)April 20: Seattle, Wash. (R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR)Note: This episode was recorded on May 1, 2020.  Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology. Support the show

One thing I was recognizing very quickly was that, at that time, there was very little guidance from the CDC. A lot of the information was coming from publications from the Chinese experience and the changes that needed to be put in place were really things that hadn’t been done before. —Rajesh Shah, MD, FSIRWarren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with Rajesh Shah, MD, FSIR, an interventional radiologist in the California Bay Area, about his region's experience with the pandemic and the role he played in the development of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) COVID-19 Toolkit.  Find IR resources for COVID-19 planning, staffing, personal protective equipment and more at the SIR website, sirweb.org.Listen to more interventional radiologist perspectives on COVID-19:July 21: New York, N.Y. (Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR)June 9: Atlanta, Ga. (Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR)May 20: Miami, Fla. (Costantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR)May 8: Chicago, Ill. (George Behrens, MD)April 20: Seattle, Wash. (R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR)Note: This episode was recorded on April 22, 2020. Dr. Shah's opinions do not represent those of the federal government. Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.(c) Society of Interventional Radiology. Support the show