Kinked Wire ep. 22
Dialysis, stroke, peripheral arterial disease, oncology, …these affect patients of all races. We know there are health care inequities—Black and Brown patients, and poor patients, uninsured tend to be afflicted more. We can recruit the best and the brightest students across the country and across the world to be part of the greatest specialty in all of medicine—and that’s image-guided medicine.—Vishal Kumar, MD, FSIR
Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with interventional radiologist Vishal Kumar, MD, FSIR, about educating medical students about IR, the importance of fostering diversity, and how the two intersect with the SIR Foundation Grants for the Education of Medical Students (GEMS) Program.
Related resources
- Learn more about the GEMS Program
- Read "The macro effects of Microaggressions" (IR Quarterly, Spring 2021)
Note: This episode was recorded on July 29, 2021.
Podcast participants
Vishal Kumar, MD, FSIR, is an interventional radiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, chair of the SIR Student and Resident Committee (SARC) and GEMS Committee, and is a member of the SIR Diversity and Inclusiveness Task Force.
Host Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, is an interventional radiologist in Tampa, Florida.
Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.
