Faculty
Department Leadership
Sanjay Gupta, M.D. - Department Chair, Professor, Deputy Chair for Academic Affairs, Director of Research
Research Interests: Developing novel interventional techniques focusing on targeted drug delivery methods (e.g. drug-eluting beads and nanoshells) for local and regional treatment of cancers
Kamran Ahrar, M.D. - Professor, Director, Business Development
Research Interests: Image guided tumor ablation, MRI guided interventions, and quality improvement
Steven Huang, M.D. - Associate Professor, Clinical Medical Director
Research Interests: Assessing the safety and efficacy of an absorbable IVC filter in swine
Stephen E. McRae, M.D. - Professor, Education Director
Research Interests: Percutaneous non-vascular interventions and patient education/outcomes
Bruno Odisio, M.D. - Associate Professor, Co-Director of Research
Research Interests: Transarterial chemoembolization, percutaneous hepatic ablation, transarterial radioembolization, portal vein embolization, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and liver metastasis
Rahul Sheth, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Research
Research Interests: Optical molecular imaging, tumor microenvironmental factors affecting minimally invasive cancer therapies, photothermal ablation, cancer immunology
Alda Tam, M.D. - Associate Professor, Director, Special Projects and Strategic Alliances
Research Interests: Irreversible electroporation, nanoparticle therapy, bone metastases, hepatic neoplasms, percutaneous biopsy
Steven Yevich, M.D., MPH - Assistant Professor, Quality Officer
Research Interests: Image guided treatment of bone, soft tissue and lung metastases
Faculty
Judy Ahrar, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Image guided biopsy, lung and mediastinum biopsy, chemoembolization of the liver, quality improvement
Rony Avritscher, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Imaging and interventions with animal models of chronic liver disease
Stephen R. Chen, M.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Retinoblastoma, Spine and Brain Tumors, Head and Neck Cancer, Intra-arterial Chemotherapy and Image-Guided Cancer Therapy
Erik N. Cressman, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Tumor heterogeneity and metabolism, novel embolic and ablative methods, thermochemistry, cell stress, cancer immunology, thermal imaging, and mass spectrometry imaging
Peiman Habibollahi, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Local and Regional Therapies for Primary and Secondary Liver Tumors, Leveraging Image-guided Delivery of Therapies for Tumor Microenvironment Modulation and Response Optimization, Cancer Immunotherapy, Artificial Intelligence Application in Interventional Radiology
Marshall E. Hicks, M.D. - Division Head, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Clinical
Research Interests: Image-guided interventions, image-guided therapy
Joshua Kuban, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research interests: Cancer-associated vascular disease, image guided embolic therapies, minimally invasive biliary interventions, and medical education
David C. Irwin, M.D. - Assistant Professor, DI-The Woodlands
Armeen Mahvash, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Combining local and regional interventional therapies with systemic therapy, Phase III clinical trial evaluating TheraSphere in patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma of the liver who have failed first line chemotherapy, sorafenib and yttrium glass and resin microspheres, colorectal cancer, hepatocellular cancer, cholangiocarcinoma
Colin J. McCarthy, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Marites Melancon, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, drug delivery, image-guided therapy, molecular imaging, and thermal therapies
Zeyad A. Metwalli, M.D. - Assistant Professor, DI-The Woodlands
Ravi Murthy, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Yttrium-90 microspheres for hepatic malignancies and image guided interventional trials
Joseph R. Steele, M.D. - Clinical Professor
Research Interests: Continuous quality improvement and process improvement and outcomes analysis and value based imaging