Call for cases

Showcase Your Expertise. Shape the Experience. Elevate IR Education.

SIR 2026 invites trainees, IR professionals, and teams to contribute to two of the meeting’s most engaging educational experiences: the Case Competition and the IR Escape Room. This is your chance to share your most compelling work, highlight innovative approaches in patient care, and help create memorable, high-impact learning for attendees from around the world.

Whether you’re presenting a powerful clinical case or designing a multi-level diagnostic challenge, your submission becomes part of the collaborative spirit of SIR 2026 - Creating Communities, Transforming Care.
Submit your case here

IR Escape Room (Team competition)

We’re calling on IR teams to design original clinical scenarios for the IR Escape Room—an immersive, three-level (Diagnostic → Complication → Resolution) simulation that tests teams in real-world interventional radiology problem-solving. Selected teams will bring their scenarios to life onsite in Toronto Sunday-Tuesday afternoons, using hands-on simulators, imaging puzzles, and device technologies, while attendee teams race the clock (15–20 minutes) to diagnose, manage, and resolve each challenge.

Who Submits: 3–5 team members (must include 1 attending physician)
- The team lead is the submitter
Deadline to Submit: January 31, 2026
Notice of Acceptance: February 2026

To play the IR Escape Room, teams must sign up in February.

Case Competition (Individual competition)

New this year, the Case Competition is a high-energy educational event designed to highlight clinical excellence, critical thinking, and procedural creativity in interventional radiology. Participants will submit real-world IR cases that demonstrate diagnostic acumen, technical innovation, and patient-centered outcomes. Selected finalists will deliver a concise 6–8 slide presentation (5-minute presentation + 2-minute Q&A) live before a panel of expert judges and an engaged audience at the SIR 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting in Toronto on Wednesday, April 15, 8:00–9:30 a.m.

Blending education with friendly competition, this session promotes peer learning, showcases diverse problem-solving approaches within the IR community, and fosters mentorship and collaboration among emerging and established leaders in the field.

Who Submits: Case submitter (if the case submitter is a trainee, please include an attending physician)
Deadline to Submit: January 31, 2026
Notice of Acceptance: February 2026

If you have any additional questions, please email annualmeeting@sirweb.org.