WIRS
WITS INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY SOCIETY
Building the next generation of interventional radiology at Wits.
WIRS is a registrar-led academic society connecting education, research, multidisciplinary collaboration, neuroradiology, neurointervention, body interventional radiology and service development at Wits.
FEATURED EVENT · 2026
Wits Neuroradiology & Neurointervention Symposium 2026
From Imaging to Intervention — with an integrated Body IR track. A proposed one-day, multidisciplinary symposium, still in development.
- Timing
- Late November 2026 — provisional
- Location
- Johannesburg
- Status
- Programme in development
- Registration
- Not yet open
A society built by registrars, for the future of IR.
Interventional radiology treats complex disease through pinhole incisions and image guidance. WIRS connects Wits registrars, consultants and students who are advancing the field in South Africa — through structured teaching, active research projects and a growing academic community.
Explore interventional radiology.
WIRS spans two connected areas of image-guided practice.
01
Body intervention
Body intervention spans vascular and non-vascular image-guided care, including embolisation, oncologic intervention, hepatobiliary and organ-based procedures, and the management of complex vascular disease.
02
Neurointervention
WIRS highlights neurointervention exposure across the Wits academic teaching-hospital circuit — where registrars train in South Africa's public-sector setting — including the image-guided treatment of stroke, aneurysms and other neurovascular disease.
Events & meetings.
Academic meetings, teaching days and society events — including the Wits Radiology Breast Imaging Symposium archive.
Registrar teaching evenings & journal club
Breast Imaging Symposium 2025
Wits Radiology's flagship breast imaging meeting — now archived.
Education.
A structured registrar teaching programme is taking shape around six curriculum pillars, spanning the breadth of interventional radiology.
IR foundations
The language, tools and logic of IR — scope, imaging in planning, access and devices, radiation safety and consent.
Vascular & emergency intervention
Vascular and emergency decision-making — haemorrhage and embolisation pathways, venous and dialysis-access concepts.
Research, governance & career
Critical appraisal, audit and quality improvement, research methods, and the training and career pathways that follow.
The Education Hub sets out the full six-pillar curriculum, learning formats and the review pathway every resource follows before publication.
Visit the Education HubResearch.
WIRS supports registrar-led research from proposal to publication.
Proposal to publication support
Guidance and collaboration for registrar-led projects at every stage.
Research portfolio
A member register of active projects is on the roadmap.
The Research Hub sets out the current portfolio, candidate opportunities, contribution roles and the full case-to-publication pathway.
Visit the Research HubGet involved with WIRS.
Wits registrars, consultants and students are welcome.
Led by Wits radiology registrars — committee announcements soon.