The presence and role of chief resident(s) vary across medical specialties and from institution to institution. The most recent American Alliance of Academic Chief Residents in Radiology (A3CR2) survey found that the responsibility of Diagnostic Radiology chief residents involved scheduling, resident education and curriculum development, residency recruitment and even hospital committee service. With the new interventional radiology residency programs coexisting within many academic radiology departments, the presence and role of a dedicated interventional radiology (IR) chief resident (IRCR) is not presently known. The purpose of this study is to survey active integrated and independent interventional radiology programs to categorize the presence and role for a dedicated IRCR. IRB exemption was granted for this study. A survey invitation to program directors and their coordinators was distributed via email through the Association of Program Directors in Interventional Radiology (APDIR) membership roster. The web-based survey consisted of 21 questions including program demographics, the presence of a dedicated IRCR(s) and additional questions clarifying the tasks that the IRCR is assigned, where present. Of a total of 89 IR integrated programs, 34 programs (38%) responded to the survey. 28 reporting programs have an early specialization in IR (ESIR) track (82%). 13 respondents were from the Northeast, 7 from the Southeast, 7 from the Midwest, 6 from the Southwest, and 1 from the Northwest. 30 (88%) of respondents were from an academic/university setting. 24 (70%) programs reported having a separate, dedicated IRCR with 11 programs (32%) having more than one IRCR. The IRCR was a PGY 4 or greater in all but one program. Two of the programs with PGY 4 chiefs also had another chief in the PGY 5 or 6 year. Tasks the IRCR(s) were involved in included scheduling (79%), organization of research and QI projects (37%), resident recruitment (75%), grievance resolution (45%), social event coordination (33%), and running trainee meetings and program review (29%). Slightly more than half (54%) of IRCRs receive additional financial compensation for their role. The role of the IRCR has been established at a majority of reporting IR/diagnostic radiology programs, with most resident(s) being tasked with clinical scheduling, resident recruitment and educational programming/organization. This snapshot serves as a baseline for the presence and organizational role of a dedicated IRCR, which can be used as a means of comparison as the training programs, and role of the chief resident evolve.