Episode 25: Owning success: SIR Gold Medalists
I try to present myself as mild-mannered, quiet and very nice, which wins a lot of battles, but deep inside there’s this fierce sense of “right.” And if there was something I needed to fight for—for the rights of patients or for members—I would go to the mat for them. —Katharine L. Krol, MD, FSIR
As part of the new "Owning Success" column in SIR's IR Quarterly magazine, guest host Nishita Kothary, MD, FSIR, speaks with a panel of four past SIR Gold Medalists—Anne C. Roberts, MD, FSIR; Katharine L. Krol, MD, FSIR; Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIR; and John A. Kaufman, MD, FSIR—about what inspires them, obstacles they've overcome and more.
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Note: This episode was recorded on Oct. 18, 2021.
Podcast participants
Anne C. Roberts, MD, FSIR, was a 2015 SIR Gold Medalist, 1993–1994 SIR president, and is an IR at the Thornton Hospital in La Jolla, California.
Katharine L. Krol, MD, FSIR, was a 2017 SIR Gold Medalist and 2006–2007 SIR president, is 2020–2022 chair of SIR Foundation, and is an IR based in Boulder, Colorado.
Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIR, was a 2017 SIR Gold Medalist, chair of the SIR 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting, and is an IR based in San Francisco.
John A. Kaufman, MD, FSIR, was a 2018 SIR Gold Medalist, 2008–2009 SIR president, and is an IR at the Dotter Interventional Institute in Portland, Oregon.
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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