Profiles 

Monday, 05 Dec 2011

Anna Maria Belli, professor of interventional radiology, St George’s Hospital and Medical School, London, UK, speaks to Interventional News about how important it is that interventional radiology’s clinical responsibility is acknowledged by IR having admitting rights, beds, junior teams and clinics; she also speaks on the UK multicentre FEMME trial, lost training opportunities on late-night calls, and more. [read more]

Tuesday, 06 Sep 2011

Michael J Lee will don the CIRSE presidential mantle for 2011–12. He tells Interventional News about abscess drainage and embolization being very rewarding procedures, the most important trials to have influenced interventional radiology lately, and his intention to take up playing the guitar again... [read more]

Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011

As a former football referee, Riccardo Lencioni, Pisa, Italy, tells Interventional News readers how important it is to respect the rules —how important it is to design and carry out trials that meet accepted standards, so that other specialties involved in cancer care can see the worth of what interventional oncology can offer. [read more]

Tuesday, 22 Mar 2011

Timothy P Murphy, incoming president of the Society of Interventional Radiology, spoke to Interventional News about the expanding role for interventional radiologists in acute stroke care, the opportunities afforded by miniaturised EVAR devices and potential services that can be offered in chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, among other interesting developments in interventional radiology. [read more]

Monday, 01 Nov 2010

James F Benenati, medical director of the Noninvasive Vascular Lab and SIR president 2010, talks to Interventional News on how interventional radiologists are a highly creative and innovative group. [read more]

Monday, 01 Nov 2010

Jan Peregrin, CIRSE president 2009, told Interventional News that the miniaturisation of interventional devices hold great promise and that this will allow many clincial possibilities. [read more]

Monday, 01 Nov 2010

David Kessel, told Interventional News how interventional radiology has a growing role in major trauma cases, but is often overlooked due to being the “new kid on the block”. [read more]

Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009

Poland’s most senior interventional radiologist, and president of ECR 2010, told Interventional News how she felt when she joined a male-dominated field. [read more]

Friday, 21 Aug 2009

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 patient with a post-PTA restenosis of the right common iliac artery, in May 1987 [read more]

Thursday, 02 Jul 2009

Interventional News’ Co-Editor-in-Chief, and new president of the Society of Interventional Radiology, Brian Stainken, on the “magic” of which interventional radiologists are too modest to boast. [read more]