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    • Leadership Gifts Committee James F. Benenati, MD, FSIR
      Joseph Bonn, MD, FSIR
      Romi Chopra, MD
      Erik Cressman, MD (New Member)
      Janette D. Durham, MD, MBA, FSIR
      Marshall Hicks, MD, FSIR
      Eamonn P. Hobbs, FSIR
      Stephen T. Kee, MD
      Timothy Maroney, MD (New Member)
      Alan H. Matsumoto, MD, FSIR
      Thomas A. Sos, MD, FSIR
      Richard B. Towbin, MD, FSIR
      Arthur C. Waltman, MD, FSIR
      Robert I. White, Jr., MD
      Suresh Vedantham, MD

Welcome From the SIR Foundation Discovery Campaign

Invest in IR, Light Up Discovery

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Help Meet the $2.5 Million Goal!



Contribute to the SIR Foundation Discovery Campaign

To ensure that IR professionals are poised to be pioneers and leaders in the future, SIR Foundation must have a predictable source of unrestricted funds. The Discovery Campaign is intended to amplify the success of the Annual Fund, and all SIR members are strongly encouraged to make both the Discovery Campaign and the Annual Fund part of their giving strategy.  

Many of your colleagues (including 100 percent of SIR and SIR Foundation leadership) have made five-year commitments to this important effort. To date the SIR membership has raised more than $1.7 million toward this important effort.  The Discovery Campaign needs just under $650,000 from SIR membership contributions to meet our $2.5 million goal ... join the effort now!

Discovery Campaign Support Levels

Innovator

$100,000+

  

Leader

$10,000+

Pioneer

$ 50,000+

  

Explorer

$  5,000+

Pacesetter

$ 25,000+

  

Voyager

$  2,500+

Sponsor

Up to $2,499

 

Dear Colleagues,

As discussed at the 2009 Annual Scienific Meeting, there are several compelling reasons to give to the Discovery Campaign, and we all need to shake ourselves out of complacency to understand what those reasons are. The Campaign is asking every one of us to give more than one would initially think comfortable, but the funds are truly an investment in all of our futures, not only as physicians or persons intimately interested in the practice of IR, but also as potential future patients or family of future patients.

Reason 1: Research is the way to improve human life. Interventional Radiology is deeply committed to the improvement of life, and we must support research to continue the search for ways to make lives more healthy and productive.

Reason 2: Interventional Radiology has been a specialty of innovation and cutting-edge technology. We expect that will be our future also. There will be no innovation if there is no research. We cannot continue to rest on past laurels of innovation and expect our practices to continue to grow and prosper. We all must be committed to supporting the research that will shape how we provide care to patients in the future.

Reason 3: We are living in 2009, the 21st century, and yet we still do not know the answers to many basic medical questions. It is very difficult to choose best medical options or to counsel patients on their best option when the research has not been done to define those answers. There is still much basic work to be done to use the tools we currently have in the best way. Evidence-based medicine cannot be a reality with the evidence being available and proven.

Reason 4: Research defines the experts. We may consider ourselves the experts on minimally-invasive image-guided interventions, but outside our small world, others may see us as a non-player if we have not contributed significantly to the research and associated literature on those therapies/procedures we claim to be ours. It is harder to be recognized as a leader in a field if we are not contributing significant research and literature.

Reason 5: The effectiveness of IR services. Research demonstrates the effectiveness of IR services and thereby ensures these services receive the level of reimbursement from payors necessary to sustain their ongoing availability to patients.

This donation is truly an investment in the future of our specialty and our ability to provide the best care to our patients.

The Future of IR rests in our hands,

Kathy Krol, MD
Leader level Discovery Donor