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
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. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Image guided biopsy, lung and mediastinum biopsy, chemoembolization of the liver, quality improvement
Kamran Ahrar, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Image guided tumor ablation, MRI guided interventions, and 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
Sharjeel H. Sabir, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Tumor heterogeneity and its effects on percutaneous biopsy, quality and outcomes in IR, percutaneous and endovascular management of renal cell carcinoma, lung ablation, simulation based training in radiology
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