Leader in Innovation Award

Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD, FSIR, is an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and formerly chief of interventional radiology at UCSF’s Mount Zion Campus. Known for her interest in education and training, as well as for her clinical interests in portal hypertension and hepatobiliary interventional radiology, during her long career she has assumed prominent roles within radiology leadership, including selection as a trustee of the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and as a member of the Radiology Residency Review Committee (RRC) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). In her leadership roles at ABR and ACGME, Dr. LaBerge has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the new IR Residency and IR/DR certificate—a landmark achievement for interventional radiology and a transformative event in IR training. Her other major contributions within SIR leadership have been in the development of an original syllabus series, the categorical course case-based review series and the film panel at SIR Annual Scientific Meetings. She delivered the Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecture in 2011 and has been a Fellow of SIR since 1992. For her contributions to the specialty, she received SIR’s highest honor, the Gold Medal, in 2017.

John A. Kaufman, MD, MS, FSIR, is the Frederick S. Keller Professor of Interventional Radiology at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland. A native of Boston, Dr. Kaufman worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1991 until 2000, when he joined the Dotter Institute at OHSU. He became the institute’s director in 2012, and in 2017 the inaugural chair of the Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology. He stepped down from this role in 2023 to become chief medical officer for Cook Medical. Dr. Kaufman also maintains an active clinical IR practice. His has served as an associate editor for Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, chair of the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, president of the SIR, chair of the SIR Foundation, president of The VIVA Foundation, and chair of the OHSU Professional Board.

He currently is secretary-treasurer of the American Board of Radiology (ABR), and in October 2024 will become ABR’s president-elect. Dr. Kaufman chaired the SIR/ABR Primary Certificate Task Force that lead to recognition of IR as a primary specialty of the American Board of Medical Specialties. Outside of work he is an avid coffee roaster, cook and a novice apple orchardist. However, his greatest achievement is that he convinced Cathy Hiller (now Kaufman) to marry him; together they have three children, 8 grandchildren and 5 dogs.

Victoria Marx, MD, FSIR, is an interventional radiologist and clinical professor of radiology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

Dr. Marx completed medical school and a general surgery internship and diagnostic radiology residency at The Ohio State University, she became the first interventional radiology (IR) fellow at Washington University in 1987. Two years later she joined the Department of Radiology at University of Michigan, later becoming section head of interventional radiology and director of the IR fellowship program.

In 1999, Marx joined the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and served as the department’s diagnostic radiology program director for 10 years. Marx has had numerous leadership roles in multiple national medical organizations, including the American Board of Radiology, the Association of Program Directors in Radiology, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Radiology Residency Review Committee. 

A longtime member of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Executive Council, Marx served as the society’s president from 2018 to 2019. Among her most important contributions to the field is her leadership role in the development and implementation of the IR/DR residency training program for interventional radiology after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved IR/DR residency program requirements in 2014. In recognition of her contributions to the field of IR/DR residency training, SIR awarded her a Gold Medal in 2022.

Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FSIR, is the former president of University of North Carolina (UNC) Faculty Physicians. He is the James H. Scatliff Distinguished Professor of Radiology, as well as a professor of surgery at the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. He has been a faculty member at UNC since 1982.

Dr. Mauro received his medical degree in 1977 from Cornell University Medical College in New York. He completed his residency training in 1980 at the UNC School of Medicine and was chief resident during his last year. Between 1980 and 1982, Dr. Mauro completed fellowships in diagnostic and vascular radiology at UNC and abdominal and interventional radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

As past president of the r. Mauro supported RSNA’s mission by shepherding the society through the evolving healthcare landscape and advancing the field of radiology through dissemination of high-quality research and education.

A prolific researcher, Dr. Mauro has published over 150 journal articles and numerous book chapters. He has co-authored five books. His textbook, Image-guided Interventions, serves as a standard reference in the field. Dr. Mauro has given dozens of scientific research presentations nationally and internationally and has been an invited lecturer or visiting professor at over 200 institutions and meetings worldwide. He has served as principal or co-investigator on numerous funded grants, including several grants focused on diagnostic atherosclerosis imaging and treatment of complex pathology of the descending thoracic aorta.

A dedicated RSNA volunteer, Dr. Mauro served on the Scientific Program Committee beginning in 2005, and as chair from 2009 to 2013. He served on the Public Information Advisors Network from 2002 to 2011. Dr. Mauro is a regular faculty member for annual meeting educational courses and was the associate editor of Radiology from 2002 to 2007. He has served on the RSNA Research and Education (R&E) Foundation Public Relations Committee and the Corporate Giving Subcommittee, and as an R&E Foundation grant reviewer. He currently serves on the R&E Foundation’s Board of Directors. Dr. Mauro joined the RSNA Board of Directors in 2015, serving as liaison for education.

Dr. Mauro has worked extensively with the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), where he was on the Executive Council from 1994 to 2000, serving as president during his last year. He was on the Annual Scientific Meeting Committee from 2000 to 2002. Following his presidency, he served as the Chair of CIRREF (now called the SIR Foundation) from 2000 – 2002. Dr. Mauro was an early advocate for enhanced training for the expanding field of Interventional Radiology and was instrumental in shepherding the new IR/DR certificate through the ABR and ABMS as well as other Radiologic organizations.

Dr. Mauro has served on a number of editorial boards, including Clinical Imaging, Applied Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology and Seminars in Interventional Radiology, among others. He has been a manuscript reviewer for several journals, including RadioGraphics, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Journal of Vascular Surgery and Pediatrics. Dr. Mauro has been a book reviewer for Gastrointestinal Radiology, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Investigative Radiology and Academic Radiology.

Since 2020, Dr. Mauro had been the RSNA representative to the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research Executive Committee. He was past president of the Southeastern Angiographic Society, where he served on its board of directors from 2012 to 2018. Dr. Mauro has served on the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) Scientific Sessions Program Committee, as well as the AHA Executive Committee. He also served on the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors from 2003 to 2009. At the American Board of Radiology (ABR), Dr. Mauro served on the ABR Board of Governors from 2015 to 2018 and on the ABR Executive Committee from 2013 to 2015. He was trustee from 2006 to 2015.

In 2024, Dr. Mauro was awarded honorary membership of the European Society of Radiology (ESR). He was awarded the SIR Gold Medal in 2014., and the ABR has presented Dr. Mauro with both the Distinguished Service Award and the Lifetime Service Award.