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Ellena Varnadoe and Melissa Corey, RT The family business
Second-generation IRs and the future of a specialty
any interventional radiologists describe the IR community as a family—but for some IRs, it really is. In his 2010 Charles T.
Dotter Lecture, Michael C. Soulen, MD, FSIR, spoke about IR families, inspired by his own experiences as a second- generation IR. His mother, Renate L. Soulen, MD, FSIR, was a Founding Fellow of SIR, and inspired his future career.
Read Dr. Soulen’s Dotter Lecture at
jvir.org.
In it, he shared the stories of some founding IR families and speculated on what the future may look like for the next iteration of IR families. At SIR 2025, many of those families came together to celebrate 50 years of SIR. The new generations of IR families look different and have come to IR from different paths—but all are united by a passion and excitement for the specialty.
What was it like growing up in an IR household? NH: My mom was an X-ray tech at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, so I came from an X-ray family. I remember my dad working long hours. As a kid, I played in the radiology department, and I remember their first automatic film processor. My dad would go to work wearing the red goggles they had to wear so their eyes stayed dark.
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Lewis M. Halin, DO, FSIR Neil J. Halin, DO, FSIR Neil Halin, DO, FSIR, and his father, Lewis Halin, DO, FSIR, attended the SIR 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting together. Dr. Lewis Halin was one of the first DOs to be inducted as a fellow into SIR and was the first angiographer at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Neil Halin completed his fellowship at Tufts Medical Center and has since gone on to be chief of IR at Tufts where he has worked with residents, navigated clinical trials and device development. He is now partially retired and spends his free time managing his 54-acre farm and BMW- based endurance racing team.
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