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The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), established 1931, is an academic radiology center associated with the Washington University School of Medicine, located within the Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to providing diagnostic and therapeutic patient-care services, the institute is a top research and education center. It employs over 140 academic staff and is among the top recipients of National Institutes of Health funding of radiology departments. The center provides radiology services to Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, as well as multiple other hospitals and outpatient centers in the St. Louis area. The center performs 700,000 examinations and procedures annually.

Mallinckrodt has for decades been considered the premier radiology residency training program in the United States and has consistently been ranked among the top three radiology training programs in the country. In 2020, Doximity ranked the institute at #2, and US News & World Report ranked the institute at #5 in radiology in the United States.