From the Kinked Wire Hear the stories of SIR


The SIR 50th anniversary celebrations continue on the Kinked Wire. Check out some of our special episodes and hear about the early days of IR, the advent of pediatric IR and stroke interventions, the growth of SIR and more.


Episode 59


SIR 50th Anniversary: From 1975 to 2025, the Evolution of the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting


Guest: Ernest Ring, MD, FSIR


Host Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR, chair of the SIR 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, speaks with interventional radiology pioneer Ernest Ring, MD, FSIR, about the evolution of the SIR annual meeting, from its first gathering in 1975 to this year's meeting in Nashville, Tenn.


“The early days were necessary to get us into doing things, solving problems without the data. And then the data came afterwards to confirm that the things we were doing were worthwhile."


— ERNEST RING, MD, FSIR


Episode 56


SIR 50th Anniversary: The evolution of neurointerventional radiology


Guest: David Kumpe, MD, FSIR


Host Martin G. Radvany, MD, FSIR, speaks with neurointerventional radiology pioneer David Kumpe, MD, FSIR, about the earliest days of neuro IR, how it's grown since then and more.


“At about 50 minutes into the infusion, I could feel the guy moving his hand under the drapes. At an hour, he had a normal- strength grip. I ... I can't tell you ... what a euphoric experience that was."


— DAVID KUMPE, MD, FSIR, ON HIS EARLY SUCCESSES IN NEUROINTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY


Episode 54


SIR 50th Anniversary: From piles of tubing to the Waltman loop


Guest: Arthur Waltman, MD, FSIR


Host Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with one of his early mentors, interventional radiology pioneer Arthur Waltman, MD, FSIR, and his wife Carol Watson about the early days of interventional radiology at Mass General, his work with Stanley Baum, MD, FSIR, and others, how the specialty and SIR have grown over the decades, and more.


“The vascular surgeons had felt like, 'The patients are going to you before they come to us and ... why don't we just take you on?' And there was sort of an interest in trying to get me to join up with them, but I told them 'I'm not trained ..." So if I had wanted, I could have wound up in the department of surgery as a nonsurgeon surgeon."


—ARTHUR WALTMAN, MD, FSIR


Want to learn more about the history of IR?


Check out some recommended reading:


1. Becker, GJ. Interventional radiology 2000 and beyond: back from the brink. The 1999 Charles T. Dotter Lecture. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 1999;10:681-687.


2. Baum S, Athanasoulis CA. The Beginnings of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR, née SCVIR, SCVR). J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2003;14(7):837–840.


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