We may not have had everything we wanted, but we had most of the things we needed. And most of the things we needed were our own ingenuity, our own innovativeness, that comes from practicing our own specialty, interventional radiology. 
—Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR

Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR, an interventional radiologist in Atlanta, about the COVID-19 impact on her city and practice, and the role of resiliency in the face of the pandemic.

Find IR resources for COVID-19 planning, staffing, personal protective equipment and more at the SIR website, sirweb.org.

Listen to more interventional radiologist perspectives on COVID-19:

• July 21: New York, N.Y. (Akhilesh K. Sista, MD, FSIR)
• May 20: Miami, Fla. (Costantino S. Peña, MD, FSIR)
• May 8: Chicago, Ill. (George Behrens, MD)
• April 29: Palo Alto, Calif. (Raj Shah, MD)
• April 20: Seattle, Wash. (R. Torrance Andrews, MD, FSIR)

Note: This episode was recorded on May 29, 2020.  

SIR thanks Medtronic for its support of this episode.

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