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Fellowship Overview

The Interventional Radiology section at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania offers 7-8 fellowship positions per year. The year-long fellowship consists of rotations at HUP, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, The Philadelphia VA and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Time is also available for electives and research.

Clinical Work

The fellowship offers exposure to a broad variety of cases. Fellows gain expertise in vascular diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as peripheral arteriography, angioplasty, stenting, thrombolysis, and pulmonary angiography. We are also active in therapeutic procedures ranging from artery embolization, venous angioplasty, stenting, IVC filter placement, dialysis access interventions, TIPS, endoleak embolization, pulmonary AVM embolizations, uterine artery embolizations and varicose vein ablations. Unusual modalities such as lymphangiography, thoracic duct embolizations and percutaneous sympathectomy are also performed. Non-vascular interventional procedures cover the liver and biliary tract, GI tract (percutaneous gastrostomies and percutaneous jejunostomies) as well as the GU tract and portal system. We have a thriving Interventional Oncology program that includes chemoembolization, radioembolization, RFA, and cryoablation. An active uterine fibroid embolization program also exists.

Our caseload is more than adequate to give all fellows extensive experience in the above mentioned areas. Over the past year we have treated over 7,500 patients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania alone. Although a majority of time is spent in an academic university hospital setting at HUP, candidates are exposed to more of a community radiology setting at the VA and Presbyterian Hospitals. Case volume at the Veteran's Medical Center is approximately 25-30 cases per week and at the Presbyterian Medical Center approximately 40-50 cases per week. A unique feature of the program is experience in interventional pediatric radiology at the world-famous Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where our fellows gain experience in routine peripheral pediatric procedures, as well as in diagnostic neuroangiography under the guidance of dedicated pediatric interventionalists.

History

The HUP Interventional Radiology section has long been regarded as a leader in the field of Interventional Radiology. Past section members have included such leaders and early interventional radiology innovators as Stanley Baum, Gordon McLean, Ernest Ring and Stan Cope. Penn IR physicians were among the early providers of Transhepatic Biliary drainage, percutaneous image guided fluid drainage, angioplasty, TIPS, chemoembolization and thoracic duct embolization.

Physical Facilities

We currently have six interventional rooms at HUP. A new nine-bed holding area has recently opened. Ultrasound is currently available in all of the interventional suites. A digital workstation for reviewing studies such as CT scans and MRI's from other parts of the department is also available in the Interventional Reading Room. The Fellows have an office with carrels, lockers, desks, and computers.

At the Presbyterian Medical Center there are two IR rooms. There are also two rooms at the VA. A large medical research library is located adjacent to HUP. All four affiliated hospitals are within easy walking distance of one another, and all lie adjacent to or on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania with all the resources, activities, and facilities that one expects at a world-class research University.

Educational Resources and Conferences

Teaching consists of numerous conferences and rounds. Weekly conferences include a didactic lecture in IR, IR Chief Rounds (a case-based conference), liver tumor conference and dialysis access conference. There are monthly Morbidity and Mortality and Research conferences. Each day we review the previous day's cases so everyone gets to see and learn from all the cases. Board rounds where the cases from the previous day are discussed. All fellows have the opportunity to participate in research with a mentor within the program and many present papers at the SIR meeting. Both clinical and animal research is performed at the University of Pennsylvania. A two suite research area is shared with Cardiology. All fellows also receive a stipend to present at the annual SIR meeting. The department reimburses expenses for any conference at which a fellow presents a paper as first author. The section presents at several annual CME courses which fellows are encouraged to attend.

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Contact

S. William Stavropoulos, MD
Interventional Radiology
Attn: Maryann Clark
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street/1 Silverstein
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone: 215-662-6839
Fax: 215-662-7448
maryann.clark@uphs.upenn.edu