Episode 29: Owning Success: Paths into leadership
To be a good volunteer and make a real difference, you need to do a lot of listening to what themes are around you and what people are struggling with—and not wait for someone to tell you what they wa...
22 Mars 202222min
Episode 28: 2021 in review + top IR Quarterly articles of the year
Just as the specialty is innovative, we foster a culture where we want to be innovative. And we want to be nimble, just as our members are nimble. And so when we look at the DNA of how we operate, w...
15 Feb 202228min
Episode 27: Owning Success: The power of partnering with industry
If you are in the device world and you have a whole bunch of engineers, if you don't give power to your physicians to help you design, what you'll end up with is a device that works for the engineers—...
4 Feb 202228min
IRQ audio 6: Pain killers: The healing role of interventional radiology in the U.S. opioid epidemic
“The application of the interventional radiology skill sets to pain has created a new reservoir for alternatives to opioids. There are brand-new options that didn’t exist 10 years ago to treat patient...
18 Jan 202213min
Episode 26: EPOCH Trial results suggest promising treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer patients
I think this is actually a model that can in fact be propagated across multiple types of centers, as long as that communication is there. —Riad Salem, MD, MBA, FSIR, Co-principal investigator, EPOCH T...
3 Jan 202222min
IRQ audio 5: Career-long retirement planning for the interventional radiologist
As with most any career path, interventional radiology provides more than its share of challenges and joys—and many years of hard but rewarding work. And as with any career path, the closer you get to...
21 Dec 202116min
IRQ audio 4: Crossing the interventional radiology desert
Data have demonstrated that individuals living in many parts of the country not only lack access to an IR but also lack access to any radiologist with image-guided procedural skills. These “IR deserts...
1 Dec 20217min
IRQ audio 3: The business case for diversity in interventional radiology
The impact of diversity on finances makes perfect sense when you think of the workforce like a toolbox: Every tool has a purpose and design that makes it optimal for certain jobs. If your toolbox is f...
23 Nov 20218min
