PLENARIES Sunday Opening Plenary Session
Gold Medalists, Leader in Innovation Awards and Dotter Lecture
SIR Annual Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecturer:
Andrew Holden, MBChB, EBIR, ONZM SIR Gold Medal recipients:
Thierry de Baère, MD Scott Craig Goodwin, MD, MBA, FSIR, FACR
Lindsay Machan MD, FSIR
Monday Plenary Session
The future of Interventional Radiology—independence, integration, and impact; perspectives from leadership and established IR models
Moderators: Bulent Arslan, MD, FSIR, and Robert A. Lookstein, MD, FSIR
Interventional radiology is at an infl ection point. As hospitals, health systems and private practices redefi ne their structures, IR leaders worldwide are making strategic decisions that will shape the specialty’s future identity, visibility and impact.
This plenary brings together infl uential voices from academic medicine, private practice and international health systems to explore why IR departments are evolving—and what those changes mean for patient access, operational success, and long-term sustainability.
Anchored in the SIR 2026 theme, “Creating Communities, Transforming Care,” this session highlights how structural choices can strengthen collaboration, elevate IR’s role within the care continuum and build the communities required for transformative, patient-centered practice.
Panel insights:
• Hospital leadership perspectives on why IR is positioned for departmental independence
• Operational and cultural transformation following separation from diagnostic radiology
• Financially viable IR-only private practice models • Academic benefi ts of an independent IR identity
• International approaches to IR departmental structure, effi ciency and workforce development
Tuesday Plenary Session
The future of IR: Workforce, economics, and the debate that will shape the specialty
Moderators: Mark L. Lessne, MD, FSIR and Constantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR
As the next generation of IRs enters the fi eld with new expectations, and as hospitals navigate unprecedented fi nancial pressures, IR’s future depends on how we train, support and structure our community.
This second plenary builds on the Monday one by shifting the spotlight to workforce voices, economic realities and the defi ning debate about where IR should live within the healthcare system—within DR or as an independent department.
Highlights include:
• Voices of the future: Perspectives from trainees with Estefania Gonzales, Joanna Choe, Aesha Patel, MD
• Financial landscape: IR economics in 2026 and beyond with C. Matthew Hawkins, MD, MBA, FSIR
• Debate: Where should IR live? with Bulent Arslan, MD, FSIR and Alan H. Matsumoto, MD, FSIR
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