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Features


12 Breaking down


histotripsy Inside a new ablation modality with cancer applications Fred T. Lee, MD, Timothy J. Ziemlewicz, MD, Zhen Xu, PhD, and Paul Laeseke MD, PhD


20 Patient frailty


and IR The case for frailty as a geriatric diagnostic tool Rana Rabei, MD, and Maureen P. Kohi, MD, FSIR


24


Inside the SIR governance evolution


30


Wellness pearls Top tips from IRs on avoiding burnout


Columns 6


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President's column Executive director's column


16 The commitment: The business case for diversity in IR 18 Owning success: SIR Gold Medalists share their paths to success 23 Humans of IR: Simone Raiter, Chicago Medical School 28 Coding Q&A: Neurovascular interventions


29 The path to subspecialization: My journey to neuro IR subspecialization


32 IRs-in-training: The implications of COVID-19 on the integrated IR residency match


34 Abstracts from the current literature 36 Solved on SIR Connect: The power of knowledge 38 Crossword


Departments 9 IR UP FRONT


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