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 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

Peiman Habibollahi, M.D. - 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 

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

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

Zeyad A. Metwalli, M.D. - 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

Bruno Odisio, M.D. - Professor, Co-Director of Research
Research Interests: Transarterial chemoembolization, percutaneous hepatic ablation, transarterial radioembolization, portal vein embolization, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and liver metastasis

Milan Patel, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Chief Medical Director
Research Interests: Venous thrombectomy, spinal ablation and augmentation, portal hypertension, IVC filtration, education and quality analysis

Ketan Shah, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Director of Interventional Oncology and Associate Program Director of Education
Research Interests: Portal hypertension, chemoembolization and ablation

Rahul Sheth, M.D. - Associate 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. - Professor, Director of Special Projects and Strategic Alliances
Research Interests: Irreversible electroporation, nanoparticle therapy, bone metastases, hepatic neoplasms, percutaneous biopsy

Faculty

Mohamed Abdelsalam, M.D. - Associate Professor

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

Ahmed Awad, M.D. - Assistant Professor

Nicolas Cardenas, M.D. - Assistant Professor

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

Varshana Gurusamy, M.D. - Assistant Professor

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

Stephen Lee, M.D. - Associate Professor

Ethan Lin, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Transarterial chemoembolization, radioembolization, portal vein embolization, thermal ablation in cancer patients, colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma

Thomas Lu, M.D. - Associate Professor

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

Stephen E. McRae, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Percutaneous non-vascular interventions and patient education/outcomes

Marites Melancon, Ph.D. - Professor, Director of Summer Experience & Odyssey Programs in Education & Training
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

Iwan Paolucci, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor

Paige Reed, D.O. - Assistant Professor

Steven Yevich, M.D., MPH - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Image guided treatment of bone, soft tissue and lung metastases