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General IR
Plenary Session
Merve Ozen, MD
Interventional Radiologist
Mayo Clinic Arizona, United States
Daniel Sze, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Stanford University, United States
Sebastian Junger
Author and Journalist, United States
Philip Dombrowski, MD (he/him/his)
Ir physician
Cape cod healthcare , United States
Michael Hallisey, MD (he/him/his)
Interventional Radiology
Hartford Hospital, United States
Robert Lewandowski, MD
Professor of Radiology, Medicine and Surgery
Northwestern University, Dept. of Radiology, IR section, United States
Robert Lookstein, MD
Professor of Radiology and Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of WAR, The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont and Fire. He is also the acclaimed director of the documentary films Restrepo and Korengal. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories and has been awarded the National Magazine Award and a SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism.
Junger's latest book, In My Time Of Dying, is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day and was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. This experience spurred Junger — a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical — to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions? In My Time Of Dying debuted May 21, 2024.
Don't miss to listen to the KinkedWire episode on From crisis to care: How interventional radiology saved Sebastian Junger's life. The host Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with Sebastian Junger, author of In My Time of Dying, The Perfect Storm and more, about his near-death experience with Philip J. Dombrowski, MD, the attending interventional radiologist who saved his life; and with Michael J. Hallisey, MD, FSIR, the IR who first shared the story on SIR Connect.