From the April 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

“Interventional radiologists have a bright future in stroke treatment, with the ability to grant more access to this life-saving procedure that cuts costs and reduces chronic disability,” said Martin Radvany, M.D., FSIR, chief of interventional neuroradiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. “We first need to increase the number of interventional radiologists in stroke care. To do this, we need to expand stroke training opportunities at all levels of training from interventional residencies and fellowships to post-graduate continuing education.”

We’re working for a future that will see many more interventional radiologists in stroke care, increasing access for many patients and giving many afflicted with stroke a hopeful future.


An invaluable asset
Interventional radiologists are an invaluable asset to hospitals, whether we’re partnering in treating patients in trauma and oncology departments, or providing crucial treatments for complicated conditions, such as pulmonary embolism, brain aneurysms and cancer. In these treatments, interventional radiologists provide cutting-edge medicine that benefits both patients and hospitals. I hope that hospitals continue to see the value and prestige of this specialty in the same way that we do, and in the way that our partners in other specialties see us, as an integral part of the highest-quality patient care. Empowering the interventional radiologist encourages progress and ultimately brightens the future for modern medicine.

About the author: Suresh Vedantham is professor of radiology and surgery at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis. Vedantham is the 2017 president of the Society of Interventional Radiology.

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