Leader in Innovation Award
Forecasted
Leader in Innovation Award recognizes individuals whose implemented devices, techniques, or practice improvements advance interventional radiology, improve patient care, or strengthen practice economics.
Funder: Society of Interventional Radiology
Due Dates (Anticipated): June 2027 (Nomination deadline)
Funding Amounts: Complimentary registration, transportation, and lodging for SIR’s Annual Meeting
Summary: Recognizes individuals whose implemented innovations improve interventional radiology practice, patient care, or practice economics.
Key Information: Nomination by a colleague is required.
Description
The SIR Foundation’s Leader in Innovation Award recognizes and promotes innovation within interventional radiology (IR), continuing the specialty’s history of developments that have transformed medicine over the last 40 years. It acknowledges individuals who have both conceptualized and implemented an idea with a beneficial impact on IR practice.
Recognized innovations may include a device, technique, approach, clinical practice model, or another improvement that significantly advances the quality of patient care or the economics of interventional practice. The award’s scope encompasses both how care is delivered and how practice operates. Its 2025 recipients illustrate recognition of contributions to education, leadership, and the development and implementation of IR residency training and certification.
