Episode 29: Owning Success: Paths into leadership
To be a good volunteer and make a real difference, you need to do a lot of listening to what themes are around you and what people are struggling with—and not wait for someone to tell you what they want you to do. —Laura Findeiss, MD, FSIR, 2019–20 SIR president
As part of the new "Owning Success" column in SIR's IR Quarterly magazine, guest host Nishita Kothary, MD, FSIR, speaks with former SIR Presidents Laura Findeiss, MD, FSIR, and James B. Spies, MD, MPH, FSIR, and current SIR Secretary Alda L. Tam, MD, FSIR, about how they got involved with SIR leadership, their experiences on the SIR Executive Council and SIR Foundation Board of Directors, and advice they offer IRs-in-training and early-career IRs.
Note: This episode was recorded on Feb. 15, 2022.
Podcast participants
Laura Findeiss, MD, FSIR, is a former SIR president and chief of service, radiology, at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta.
James B. Spies, MD, MPH, FSIR, is a former SIR president and professor and chair of radiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington.
Alda L. Tam, MD, FSIR, is SIR secretary and an interventional radiologist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
Guest Host Nishita Kothary, MD, FSIR, is chair of the SIR Women in Interventional Radiology (WIR) Section and an interventional radiologist at Stanford University Medical Center.
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