Related Content
ABR Volunteer Earns Society of Interventional Radiology Award
ABR volunteer Janice Newsome, MD, has been named 2024 winner of the Women in IR Champion Award by the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). The award is presented annually to an individual who has consistently made a significant contribution to the advancement of women in IR, including sponsorship, mentorship, teaching, promotion, advocacy, and recruitment. She will be…
NRC Approves Authorized User-Eligible Designation for Candidates Earning IR/DR Certification
Last month, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a letter to the American Board of Radiology (ABR), recognizing its Interventional Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology (IR/DR) certification process. The ABR IR/DR certification process meets the applicable requirements in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 35.290 and 35.394 for NRC recognition effective March 2021. All…
Helping Patients Fills Their Hearts with Joy
Physicians and physicists enjoy their jobs for many reasons. On Valentine’s Day, a few share what they love about their work. Jennifer Bellon, MDHarvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “I love many things about my job: the ability to help patients at a critical time in their lives, the complexity of oncologic decision-making, and…
Change of Plans Sends Aspiring Resident Down VIR Path
When he started at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Armaan Mazra, MS, had a goal: In 2025, he would be matching into a surgical residency, possibly orthopaedic surgery. “I joined almost every surgical Interest group I could because I didn’t have a lot of perspective on medicine, family members in medicine, or general exposure,” he…
Stressed in Cincinnati: Addressing Interruptions in Children’s Hospital Reading Room
The reading room is the center of diagnostic function in a radiology department. It’s also the site of numerous interruptions as radiologists perform complex tasks. At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, diagnostic radiologists were being interrupted on average every 186 seconds. The distractions were numerous: phone calls, clinical questions, pages, and more. Ethan Smith, MD,…
When Breast Cancer Gets Personal
By Alice Y. Ho, MD, MBA When I was asked to write a blog for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I was uncharacteristically speechless. As a radiation oncologist who has specialized in the care of patients with breast cancer for nearly 18 years, I should have had plenty of intellectual insights or inspirational epithets, but I…
