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Autumn Newsletter WELCOME FROM OUR EDITOR
by BSIR
As the days get shorter and leaves change colour, plans are gathering pace for the Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton from 6th-8th November. We hear from our President, Robert Morgan, and Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee, Conrad von Stempel, about some of the highlights to look forward to. The program is comprehensive and varied. I am super excited to experience the ASM first hand and connect with as many of you as possible in person in Brighton.
The primary theme of this newsletter is around radiation protection, which is an unavoidable occupational hazard relevant to our everyday work. Hence we are lucky to have the thoughtful review of current evidence from Andy Rogers (Medical Physics Expert, Nottingham), practical advice from our ex-President Phil Haslam and an incredibly insightful article on the topic by our BSIRT team (Natasha Aghtarafi, Deevia Kotecha and Hunain Shiwani). Huge kudos to you all!
We then have a wonderful article on how to foster team working by incoming Communications committee chair Yuri Gupta. The next article reflects the importance of IR training going beyond the teaching of IR practical skills, to being equipped to circumvent the often-complex dynamics of gaining visibility within large healthcare organisations. Mihir Desai shares his experience of having completed an Executive Leadership course alongside a busy IR fellowship at Guy’s & St Thomas’, London.
Establishing and advancing a clinical service carry many challenges and we are lucky to have some incredibly practical and thoughtful advice from Kevin Fung, a real rockstar in paediatric IR! We wrap up with reflections from the IOUK and Paediatric IR UK special interest committees as well as (yet another) excellent research initiative from the UNITE collaborative.
Happy reading and as always please contact me if you wish to write or cover relevant IR news for future editions.
A feature we have added to the newsletter this time around is to embed videos with some of the articles. As always, happy to hear your feedback!
Dr Narayan Karunanithy BSIR newsletter editor Consultant Interventional Radiologist (London) office@bsir.org
Read the full article: https://issuu.com/bsir/docs/2024_autumn_newsletter_3_
