Faculty

Department leadership

Sanjay Gupta, M.D. - Department Chair ad interim, 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
Research Interests: Image guided tumor ablation, MRI guided interventions, and quality improvement

Steven Huang, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Quality Officer
Research Interests: Assessing the safety and efficacy of an absorbable IVC filter in swine

Stephen E. McRae, M.D. - Associate Professor, Education Director
Research Interests: Percutaneous non-vascular interventions and patient education/outcomes

Alda Tam, M.D. - Associate Professor, Clinic Medical Director
Research Interests: Irreversible electroporation, nanoparticle therapy, bone metastases, hepatic neoplasms, percutaneous biopsy

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. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Imaging and interventions with animal models of chronic liver disease

Erik N. Cressman, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Tumor heterogeneity and metabolism, novel embolic and ablative methods, thermochemistry, cell stress, cancer immunology, thermal imaging, and mass spectrometry imaging

Marshall E. Hicks, M.D. - Professor, Division Head, Division of Diagnostic Imaging
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. 

Armeen Mahvash, M.D. - Associate 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

Marites Melancon, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, drug delivery, image-guided therapy, molecular imaging, and thermal therapies

Ravi Murthy, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Yttrium-90 microspheres for hepatic malignancies and image guided interventional trials

Bruno Odisio, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Transarterial chemoembolization, percutaneous hepatic ablation, transarterial radioembolization, portal vein embolization, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and liver metastasis

Rahul Sheth, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Optical molecular imaging, tumor microenvironmental factors affecting minimally invasive cancer therapies, photothermal ablation, cancer immunology

Joseph R. Steele, M.D. - Professor, Deputy Division Head, Division of Diagnostic Imaging
Research Interests: Continuous quality improvement and process improvement and outcomes analysis and value based imaging

Steven Yevich, M.D., MPH - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Image guided treatment of bone, soft tissue and lung metastases