Meet the 2025 Leader in Innovation Award winners
The following article is transcribed from the SIR 2025 Sunday plenary session.
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he 2025 SIR Foundation Leader in Innovation Award was granted to four individuals this year in recognition of their
work to develop the IR residency.
“The Leader in Innovation Award is the highest honor presented by SIR Foundation, recognizing groundbreaking innovation in interventional radiology,” said Maureen P. Kohi, MD, FSIR, during the SIR 2025 Opening Plenary. “This prestigious award celebrates IR’s incredible history of transformative advancements that have revolutionized patient care over the past 36 years.”
This year, the SIR Foundation Board of Directors voted to give the Leader
in Innovation Award to a team of four: John A. Kaufman, MD, FSIR; Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD, FSIR; M. Victoria Marx, MD, FSIR; and Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FSIR. This team was instrumental in establishing the IR residency, which is considered one of the most monumental changes in IR over the past 2 decades, according to Dr. Kohi.
“When we think of successful innovation, people tend to think about widgets, gadgets, new procedures or new techniques, but the reality is that innovation is much more than that. For it to be successful, you need leadership. In fact, this group provided the kind of leadership that allowed us to make the
incredible changes necessary to become a discipline,” said Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR, in his testimonial.
Meet the awardees Dr. Mauro is the James H. Scatliff Distinguished Professor of Radiology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he has held various key leadership roles. He was instrumental in advancing interventional radiology training and led the development of the IR/DR certifi cate through the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Dr. Mauro received the SIR Gold Medal in 2014.
Dr. LaBerge is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, and former chief of interventional radiology at UCSF’s Mount Zion Hospital. Throughout her career, she held key leadership roles, including trustee of the American Board of Radiology and member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Radiology Residency Review Committee. Dr. LaBerge received the SIR Gold Medal in 2017.
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