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The Kinked Wire: All episodes 

09-16-2020 03:55 PM

From clinical opportunities to practice management tips, the Kinked Wire hosts and their guests bring you the innovation, impact and insight that you enjoy in each issue of IRQ—in a convenient audio format. Find us on BuzzSprout, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TunedIn/Alexa and iHeartRadio. Read more about the podcast team.


Season 3

JVIR audio abstracts: January 2023

ep36. New credentials in IR stroke care
Host: Sudhen B. Desai, MD, FSIR | Guest: Martin Geza Radvany, MD, FSIR

JVIR audio abstracts: December 2022

IRQ audio 10: Staying power: The tangled path from innovation to clinical application

Author: Jennifer J. Salopek

IRQ audio 9: Degrees of separation: How additional advanced degrees can open new doors in your IR career

Author: Melanie Padgett Powers

JVIR audio abstracts: November 2022

JVIR audio abstracts: October 2022

ep035. IRs in focus: Geogy Vatakencherry, MD, FSIR

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR

ep034. Finding success with an office-based lab in interventional radiology

Host: Roger Tomihama, MD | Guests: Joel Rainwater, MD

JVIR audio abstracts: September 2022

ep033. A victory for women's health

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Rhode Island State Rep. Camille Vella-Wilkinson

ep032. How interventional radiologists can mitigate the contrast media shortage

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guests: Nikki Keefe, MD, and Gloria M. Salazar, MD, FSIR

ep031. Interventional radiology and postpartum hemorrhage response teams

Host: Barbara Nickel Hamilton, MD | Guest: Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR

JVIR audio abstracts: June 2022

JVIR audio 2: Mitigating the contrast media shortage

Authors: Nikki Keefe, MD, Kush R. Desai, MD, FSIR, Maureen P. Kohi, MD, FSIR, and Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR

JVIR audio abstracts: May 2022

IRQ audio 7: IR in the ER: The role of interventional radiology on the trauma team
Author: Susan Rose

ep030. Improving patient care through the VIRTEX Data Registry
Host: Jaimin Shah, MD | Guests: Raj Shah, MD, FSIR, and Matthew S. Johnson, MD, FSIR

ep029. Owning Success: Paths into leadership
Host: Nishita Kothary, MD, FSIR | Guests: Laura Findeiss, MD, FSIR; James B. Spies, MD, MPH, FSIR; Alda L. Tam, MD, FSIR

ep028. 2021 in review + top IR Quarterly articles of the year
Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: SIR Executive Director Keith Hume

ep027. Owning Success: The power of partnering with industry
Host: Nishita Kothary, MD, FSIR | Guests: Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, MD, FSIR; James F. Benenati, MD, FSIR; Laura G. King; Fred T. Lee Jr., MD; and Sarah B. White, MD, MS, FSIR

IRQ audio 6: Pain killers: The healing role of interventional radiology in the U.S. opioid epidemic
Author: Melanie Padgett Powers

ep026. EPOCH Trial results suggest promising treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer patients
Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Riad Salem, MD, MBA, FSIR

Season 2

IRQ audio 5: Exit strategy: Career-long retirement planning for the IR
Authors: Aubrey Palestrant, MD, FSIR, and Curtis W. Bakal, MD, MPH, FSIR

IRQ audio 4: Crossing the IR desert
Author: Laura Findeiss, MD, FSIR

IRQ audio 3: The business case for diversity in IR
Authors: Keith M. Horton, MD, FSIR, and Derek L. West, MD, MS

ep025. Owning success: SIR Gold Medalists
Host: Nishita Kothary, MD, FSIR | Guests: Anne C. Roberts, MD, FSIR; Katharine L. Krol, MD, FSIR; Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIR; and John A. Kaufman, MD, FSIR

IRQ audio 2: Breaking down histotripsy
Authors: Fred T. Lee, MD, Timothy J. Ziemlewicz, MD, Zhen Xu, PhD, and Paul Laeseke MD, PhD

IRQ audio 1: Patient frailty in IR
Authors: Rana Rabei, MD, MHA, and Maureen P. Kohi, MD, FSIR

ep024. IRs in focus: Elsie Koh, MD

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR

ep023. Launching and running an office-based lab (OBL)

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Bret Wiechmann, MD, FSIR

ep022. IRs in focus: Vishal Kumar, MD, FSIR

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR

ep021. IRs in focus: Daniel Y. Sze, MD, PhD, FSIRAD: Guerbet

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks Guerbet, LLC, for its support of this episode.

ep020. IR and the potential of GAE to treat osteoarthritis of the kneeAD: Guerbet

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Sandeep Bagla, MD

SIR thanks Guerbet, LLC, for its support of this episode.

ep019. Demystifying IR reimbursement

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Katharine L. Krol, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks Boston Scientific for its support of this episode.

ep018. IRs in focus: Derek L. West, MD, MS

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Eric A. Wang, MD, FSIR

ep016. 2020 year in review

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guests: Jaimin Shah, MD, Jason Fisher, MD, and Brian Haefs

Season 1

ep015. Radiation safety and the interventional radiologist

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Joseph Ring, DO

SIR thanks Boston Scientific for its support of this episode.

ep014. Addressing gender disparities in male-dominated medical specialties

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Barbara Nickel Hamilton, MD

SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.

ep013. Implicit bias and health care disparities

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Paul J. "P.J." Rochon, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks Sirtex for its support of this episode.

ep012. IRs in focus: Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIR

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks Boston Scientific for its support of this episode.

ep011. IRs in focus: Raj Pyne, MD, FSIR

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.

Special update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: New York

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks BD for its support of this episode.

ep010. The ongoing evolution of IVC filters

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Matthew S. Johnson, MD, FSIR

Special update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: Atlanta

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks Medtronic for its support of this episode.

ep009. Connecting everywhere: SIR 2020 goes virtual

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Constantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks Sirtex for its support of this episode.

Special update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: Chicago

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: George Behrens, MD

Special update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: Palo Alto, Calif.

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Raj Shah, MD, FSIR

ep008. IR perspectives on COVID-19: Seattle

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR

SIR thanks Varian for its support of this episode.

ep007. Financial planning for the interventional radiologist

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Clint Gossage, CFP

SIR thanks Varian for its support of this episode.

ep006. Wellness and burnout in interventional radiology

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Felicia Speed

SIR thanks Varian for its support of this episode.

ep005. The C-TRACT Trial's potential to help your patients

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guests: Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR, and Mary Costantino, MD

ep004. Measuring and explaining the value of IR

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guests: Matt Hawkins, MD, and Stephanie L. Dybul, MBA, RT

ep003. The path from SIR Leadership Development Academy to becoming SIR president

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: Laura Findeiss, MD, FSIR

ep002. Video-based marketing

Host: Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR | Guest: A.J. Gunn, MD

ep001. Diversity and inclusiveness (D&I) in IR

Host: Hirschel McGinnis, MD | Guest: Alan H. Matsumoto, MD, FSIR


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