JVIR publication), to audio, video and social media features.
JVIR entered social media years ahead of other radiology journals, garnering the largest Twitter feed, a blog, translated abstracts into Chinese, free subscription grants to readers in developing countries, and has run a global ambassadorship program to teach scientific writing and study construction around the world—a passion of mine. At the same time, the focus has been on building an established journal machine built on formal business practices and reporting to manage a consistent, reliable and diplomatic service to authors. The “backstage” of JVIR is now a well-oiled machine that should continue to handle both growth and new initiatives in perpetuity.
Does your role as an educator inform the way you approach editing? Editing has taught me to educate and vice-versa. I view my position as an activist editor role, reaching into people’s papers and trying to make their work as clear, neutral, science-based as possible and not overblown. I’ve taken that time-consuming task as a holy one. By adding comments to all papers and their revisions, each submission essentially becomes a one-on-one training course— and people have commented on how much more educational the JVIR process is compared to other journals.
I have also focused on knowledge translation of our science—from the
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formal, neutral, rightfully dry and concise reporting in the actual paper to the various means we make it available to readers in whatever form they need it, at that moment (editor’s research highlights, limitations paragraphs, commentaries, Twitter, Facebook, the JVIR Access blog, audio and video materials, writing clubs, webpages, etc.) It’s what you need, however you need it, at any given time.
What continues to fuel your passion for IR? Procedural medicine, be it IR or surgery, is something you have to believe can be perfected, even if it actually can’t. You have to believe that it can be perfected, and that means honing skills, standardizing procedures and delivering care in the most straightforward and mundane fashion as possible. If you do your job well, as I was taught by my mentor, the thrill of the procedure should disappear because you’ve made it look boring. So what does that leave? The continuing and irreplaceable satisfaction of the humanistic aspect of medicine.
I am as excited by the daily care of patients as I have been for 25 years. I have patients I’ve followed for over 20 years, as well as their families. Cancer, DVT, portal hypertension, hepatobiliary disease and transplantation, and grinding case complexity, provide me the same sustenance, while offering the platform to teach our next generations to become keen, compassionate and skilled physicians.
What comes next for you? JVIR, honestly, has required nearly 40 hours a week every week for a decade. And much of my editing is on paper. I edited the equivalent of a full textbook, over 160 pages, per month for 10 years. So I’m going to take a rest.
I have some personal writing and research projects I’d like to turn my attention to, and even a few mountains I have my eye on climbing. But I fully intend to continue my Writing Workshops as long as demand exists. We need to continue to bolster and build IR scientists. I want to continue to drown out people who say “Well, I’m not a writer,” by removing that obstacle from their path so that they might make a real run at IR research.
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