Vascular Interventional Radiology Fellowship

Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Radiology

At the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Division of Vascular Interventional Radiology faculty currently consists of six full-time fellowship-trained, CAQ Board Certified Interventional Radiologists and four full-time Nurse Practitioners.

We have a well-rounded clinical practice covering the full spectrum of Interventional Radiology managed by five registered nurses. We believe that our fellowship has many unique qualities, not the least of which is its relationship with the Division of Vascular Surgery. This relationship allows for the collegial combined medical and procedural care of patients with peripheral vascular disease. We perform all diagnostic and endovascular procedures except cardiac catheterizations and intracranial neuro interventions in Interventional Radiology. Examples of such procedures include thoracic and abdominal aortography, as well as thoracic and abdominal endografts, carotid stenting, visceral and renal angiography and interventions, lower extremity revascularization procedures including thrombolysis. Our aortic stent program is very active and the procedures are performed in Interventional Radiology in a fully OR-compatible, state of the art, flat-panel detector suite.

We have developed a very active interventional oncology service providing primary patient-centered evaluation and image-guided therapies including chemoembolization, TheraSphere radioembolization, DEB TACE, radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation procedures. We have an active outpatient clinical practice where we see ~50 new patients monthly. We offer other Interventional Radiology procedures such as vena cava filter placement as well as retrievals, foreign body retrieval, TIPS, percutaneous transplant liver biopsies and uterine fibroid embolization.

Our division is fully integrated with the other subspecialties within the Department of Radiology such as digital imaging, chest and GI radiology. We have an active nonvascular service, which performs all percutaneous liver procedures including transhepatic cholangiography, biliary drainage, biliary/ductal dilatation-stenting as well as percutaneous GU procedures. We offer a formal experience in noninvasive cardiovascular imaging including CT and MR angiography as well as Vascular Lab studies.

At our Outpatient Comprehensive Vein Clinic we offer a full range of vein therapy procedures such as laser ablations, sclerotherapy and ambulatory phlebectomy.

Fellows rotate not only through the active clinical service, but also have the opportunity for training in noninvasive vascular imaging in the Vascular Laboratory as well as experience in CTA and MRA. The fellowship experience overall is diverse and extensive with each fellow having over 1500 patient encounters for the year.

Please use the following link to access information about the terms, conditions and benefits of employment:  http://www.mcw.edu/GME/BenefitsMainPage.htm

Contacts:

Robert A. Hieb, MD RVT - VIR Fellowship Program Director, rhieb@mcw.edu

Parag J. Patel, MD - VIR Fellowship Associate Program Director, papatel@mcw.edu

Suellen Johnson, VIR Fellowship Program Coordinator, sejohnso@mcw.edu

telephone 1+414.805.3125  

facsimile 1+414.476.7503