Faculty
Department Leadership
- 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
. - Deputy Department Chair, Professor, Director of Strategic Business Development, Medical Director of Vascular Access and Acute Care Procedures Program
Research Interests: Image guided tumor ablation, MRI guided interventions, and quality improvement
- Associate Professor, Director of Vascular Imaging Lab
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
- Professor, Director of Clinical Program and Operations
Research Interests: Assessing the safety and efficacy of an absorbable IVC filter in swine
- Associate Professor, Program Director of Education
Research interests: Cancer-associated vascular disease, image guided embolic therapies, minimally invasive biliary interventions, and medical education
- Associate Professor, DI-The Woodlands, Quality Officer
Research Interests: Y90 radioembolization of the liver, thermal ablation of liver tumors, palliation of skeletal metastases, venous interventions in cancer patients, safety and quality improvement in interventional radiology
- Professor, Co-Director of Research
Research Interests: Transarterial chemoembolization, percutaneous hepatic ablation, transarterial radioembolization, portal vein embolization, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and liver metastasis
- Assistant Professor, Chief Medical Director
Research Interests: Venous thrombectomy, spinal ablation and augmentation, portal hypertension, IVC filtration, education and quality analysis
- Assistant Professor, Director of Interventional Oncology and Associate Program Director of Education
Research Interests: Portal hypertension, chemoembolization and ablation
- Associate Professor, Co-Director of Research
Research Interests: Optical molecular imaging, tumor microenvironmental factors affecting minimally invasive cancer therapies, photothermal ablation, cancer immunology
- Professor, Director of Special Projects and Strategic Alliances
Research Interests: Irreversible electroporation, nanoparticle therapy, bone metastases, hepatic neoplasms, percutaneous biopsy
Faculty
- Associate Professor
- Professor
Research Interests: Image guided biopsy, lung and mediastinum biopsy, chemoembolization of the liver, quality improvement
. - Professor
Research Interests: Imaging and interventions with animal models of chronic liver disease
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor
Research Interests: Retinoblastoma, spine and brain tumors, head and neck cancer, intra-arterial chemotherapy and image-guided cancer therapy
- Associate Professor
Research Interests: Tumor heterogeneity and metabolism, novel embolic and ablative methods, thermochemistry, cell stress, cancer immunology, thermal imaging, and mass spectrometry imaging
- Assistant Professor
- Division Head, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Clinical
Research Interests: Image-guided interventions, image-guided therapy
- Assistant Professor, DI-The Woodlands
- Associate Professor
- Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Transarterial chemoembolization, radioembolization, portal vein embolization, thermal ablation in cancer patients, colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma
- Associate Professor
- 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
- Professor
Research Interests: Percutaneous non-vascular interventions and patient education/outcomes
- Professor, Director of Summer Experience & Odyssey Programs in Education & Training
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, drug delivery, image-guided therapy, molecular imaging, and thermal therapies
- Professor
Research Interests: Yttrium-90 microspheres for hepatic malignancies and image guided interventional trials
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor
Research Interests: Image guided treatment of bone, soft tissue and lung metastases