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. - Deputy Department Chair, Professor, Director Strategic Business Development
Research Interests: Image guided tumor ablation, MRI guided interventions, and quality improvement

Steven Huang, M.D. - Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Program & Operations
Research Interests: Assessing the safety and efficacy of an absorbable IVC filter in swine 

Joshua Kuban, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Program Director of Education
Research interests: Cancer-associated vascular disease, image guided embolic therapies, minimally invasive biliary interventions, and medical education  

Stephen E. McRae, M.D. - Professor, Associate Program Director of Education
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

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