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Meet Robert J. Lewandowski, MD, FSIR
Robert J. Lewandowski, MD, FSIR, was inducted as SIR president during the Members’ Business Meeting at SIR 2024.
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r. Lewandowski will serve as president for the 2024–2025 term. He is currently a professor at Northwestern Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
What drew you to IR? Robert Lewandowski, MD, FSIR: During my undergraduate education at the University of Michigan, I became interested in orthopedic surgery through research I performed as part of a Mechanical Engineering curriculum.
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However, being the first person in my family to pursue a career in medicine, I remained open-minded. I was first exposed to interventional radiology during my surgical internship at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. At that time, interventional radiologists were collaborating with vascular surgeons to develop and perform endovascular treatments for patients with arterial diseases. I was captivated by the elegant, minimally invasive, image-guided alternatives to
traditional open surgical treatments. This experience convinced me to evaluate interventional radiology as a career. I quickly became passionate about the vast potential of these procedures. My decision was cemented through my early interactions with the interventional radiology community; I was rivetted by the innovative and collegial nature of those practicing IR.
Tell us about your career. What led to your interest in interventional oncology? RL: While I began my radiology training at William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak, MI) with an interest in peripheral arterial disease, I connected with Riad Salem, MD, MBA, FSIR, who was starting an interventional oncology program. Through research and training, my focus shifted to interventional oncology. Although my early experience with interventional oncology was with transarterial radioembolization, a
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