Interventional Radiology (IR) physicians perform minimally invasive image-guided diagnostic, palliative, and procedures across a wide variety of organ systems in patients with cancer. This field is now known as Interventional Oncology (IO). High-quality IO entails expert oncologic image interpretation, proficient technical skills delivering quality image-guided cancer therapies, and excellent non-procedural clinical care in a multidisciplinary environment.
SIR’s mission in Interventional Oncology is to improve the care of cancer patients by pioneering advances in image-guided therapy, promoting high-level science to support these therapies, and enabling providers to expertly deliver image-guided procedures, along with providing high quality oncologic image interpretation and nonprocedural patient care in the context of a multidisciplinary approach to oncologic care. The objectives of the IO Council are to develop a plan to guide SIR in improving the clinical care of cancer patients, to lead SIR in implementing this plan consistently across SIR activities in IO, and to contribute IO expertise to enhance SIR programs.
Over the next few years, the IO CSC is focusing on the following priority areas:
- Expanding the evidence base for IO interventions across the cancer spectrum
- Educating IRs as well as oncologists and patients regarding the depth and breadth of IO interventions
- Improving patient access to IO care
The Interventional Oncology Clinical Specialty Council is seeking at-large members. Applicants must be SIR members in good standing and should be experts in interventional oncology, including transarterial therapies (embolization, radioembolization, etc.), ablation (thermal ablation, cryoablation, etc.), and percutaneous biopsies. Applications are considered confidential. Upon the completion of the application period, current CSC leadership will recommend volunteers for appointment by the SIR Board of Directors. At-large volunteers shall serve a three-year term with the opportunity for a three-year reappointment. Terms begin and end upon the completion of the annual SIR Members’ Business Meeting.
More information about the role is available here.