The Kinked Wire
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) brings you a new podcast on all the topics that impact your practice of IR, with focused subseries reflecting the broad range of the specialty. In each episode, hosts and guests discuss new clinical opportunities, practice management tips, the latest trends and developments in the specialty, and more. Learn more on sirweb.org, irq.sirweb.org, and sirweb.org/kinkedwire. If you have any ideas for topics or guests, or have any other feedback, let us know at kinkedwire@sirweb.org. For corporate support opportunities, contact SIR at jnash@sirweb.org. The views and opinions expressed in podcast episodes are not necessarily those of the Society of Interventional Radiology. The society does not endorse any companies or products.
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Not everyone in an underserved hospital is going to want to do all advanced procedures. And so fortunately, one of the things we have been able to do, as Dr. Ian Wilson coined, is we work where we"re needed and live where we want to." -- J. Dana Dunleavy, MD In this episode, host Ezana M. Azene, MD, PhD, speaks with J.
Send us a text This recording features audio versions of Month Year Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Optimal Timing of Percutaneous Cholecystostomy across Different Grades of Acute Cholecystitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study ReadGallbladder Cryoablation for Calculous Cholecystitis Initi
"The best quote that I still say (and I say it to my son all the time) is as Ernie says, "Not every day can be the best day of your life." And it"s so true. So, if you"re having a bad day, Ernie Ring said ... it"s okay." —Maureen P. Kohi, MD, FSIR, recipient of the WIR Champion Award In this episode, host Natosha N. Mo
This recording features audio versions of June 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Comparison of Bypass Surgery versus Endovascular Interventions for Peripheral Artery Disease through Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials ReadThe Incidence and Consequence
JVIR AI audio 2: Using voxel-based dosimetry to evaluate sphere concentration and tumor dose in hepatocellular carcinoma
In this Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) audio episode, JVIR blog Editor Peter Li, MD, MS, uses artificial intelligence (AI) platform ElevenLabs to produce a podcast discussion on the November 2024 JVIR paper, "Using Voxel-Based Dosimetry to Evaluate Sphere Concentration and Tumor Dose in Hepatoc
Episode 63: At the forefront of innovation | Guest: Dr. Wilfrido R. Castaneda-Zuniga
"We had no tools. We just had to improvise. In a way, like you said, that was what made us think, "How can I do this?" Because you had no tools, you had to think of ways to use what you had available to do procedures that otherwise you wouldn"t have been able to do back then." —Wilfrido R. Castaneda-Zuniga, MD, FSIR, o