The Leader in Innovation Award recognizes and promotes innovation within interventional radiology, continuing IR’s historical innovative development that has revolutionized medicine over the last 40 years. The award acknowledges individuals who have conceptualized and implemented an idea that has had an advantageous impact on the practice of interventional radiology. The innovation can be a device, technique, approach, clinical practice model or anything having a significant improvement upon the quality of patient care or economics of interventional practice.
In order to be considered for this award, a nomination is required by a colleague. Nominations for the 2026 Leader of Innovation Award are due on June 1.
2025 Leader in Innovation Award Recipients: Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD, FSIR, John A. Kaufman, MD, MS, FSIR, M. Victoria Marx, MD, FSIR, and Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FSIR
Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD, FSIR
John A. Kaufman, MD, MS, FSIR
M. Victoria Marx, MD, FSIR
Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FSIR
Past Leader in Innovation Award recipients
2024 - Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR
2023 - Thomas A. Sos, MD, FSIR
2022 - James Spies, MD, MPH, FSIR
2021 - Andrew Cragg, MD, FSIR
2020 - John Abele, FSIR
2019 - William Cook, FSIR
2018 - Thomas O. McNamara, MD, FSIR
2017 - Riad Salem, MD, MBA, FSIR
2016 - Renan Uflacker, MD
2015 - Lindsay Machan, MD, FSIR and Kieran J. Murphy, MD, FSIR
2014 - Ziv J. Haskal, MD, FSIR
2013 - Barry T. Katzen, MD, FSIR
2012 - Michael D. Dake, MD FSIR
2011 - Scott O. Trerotola, MD, FSIR
2010 - Julio C. Palmaz, MD, FSIR
2009 - Sidney Wallace, MD, FSIR
2008 - Ernest J. Ring, MD FSIR
2007 - Robert White Jr., MD FSIR
2006 - Josef Rosch, MD, FSIR
2005 - Kurt Amplatz, MD, FSIR
2004 - Constantin Cope, MD FSIR
2003 - Irvin F. Hawkins, MD, FSIR