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Dr Mahmood Razavi, MD |
Expert in Interventions
Director, Center for Clinical trials and Research,
Heart and Vascular Center, St Joseph hosp, Orange, CA
Dr. Razavi received his medical degree from the University of Southern California and completed his Radiology residency training at UCLA where he served as the Chief Resident. He has had two subspecialty fellowship trainings; first in Medical Imaging at UCLA where his research concentrated on instrumentation and clinical evaluation of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), and second in Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology at Stanford University Hospital.
Dr. Razavi then joined the faculty of Interventional Radiology at UCLA and was the director of Special Procedures at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. In 1996, he went back to Stanford where he is now on the faculty in the Section of Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology. To date, he has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific publications, abstracts, and book chapters and has been the recipient of many honors and awards from various professional medical societies. His scientific editorial experience includes serving as the Editor of Techniques In Vascular & Interventional Radiology, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Endovascular Specialists, and Reviewer for several other journals.
He serves on various committees of national organizations such as the Food & Drug Administration/SIR Device Forum, Stent-graft sub-committee, and Fibroid embolization task force of SIR. His scientific work has been featured in over 150 national & international radio, television, and press news articles and programs.
Dr. Razavi is on the Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Boards of several device and biotechnology companies and is a consultant to many medical device manufacturers. |
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Dr Gary Onik, MD |
Ablation expert & Inventor of Cryo-Surgery for prostrate Maine
Dr. Gary Onik, M.D. director of Florida Hospital/Celebration Health's prostate cancer research program.,earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla. After two years with the Public Health Service he went with radiology.
After his radiology residency at the University of California at San Francisco, Onik went to Boston where he completed an ultrasound radiology fellowship at New England Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, followed by a research fellowship in interventional radiology.
Onik has fifteen (15) years experience in performing cryosurgery and is the inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both the prostate and the liver. He is the two time president of the American College of Cryosurgery and has authored several books and many articles on the subject of oncology. He recently wrote The Male Lumpectomy: A Rational New Approach to Treating Prostate Cancer and has co-authored the book Prostate Cancer, a Patient’s Guide to Treatment. |
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Dr Riccardo Lencioni, MD, |
Univ of Pisa, Italy
Professor Lencioni is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Pisa in Italy and the Director of the Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Intervention at Pisa University Hospital. He is Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe, and Chairman of the Programme Committee of the European Conference on Interventional Oncology. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the World Conference on Interventional Oncology, and was a founder of the International Liver Cancer Association, in which he also acts as a member of the Governing Board. Professor Lencioni has been a Visiting Professor at 20 different European, American and Asian universities.
Professor Lencioni earned his medical degree with honors from the University of Pisa, where he is board certified in Radiology and Gastroenterology. Having completed two fellowships in Interventional Radiology, he has served as a faculty member in various residency programs, including Radiology, Surgery and Gastroenterology.
Professor Lencioni has edited seven books and has authored 135 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and 40 book chapters in textbooks of Radiology, Gastroenterology and Surgery. He has been an invited or honorary lecturer for more than 400 international meetings and conferences. |
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Dr. Yuman Fong, MD |
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER, New York
Widely-recognized surgeon and researcher, Dr. Fong is Chief of Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service and Murray F. Brennan Chair in Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York. He is also Professor of Surgery at Cornell University Medical College, where in 1984 he received his MD. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications, reviews, textbooks, editorials and books chapters. He is a highly sought-after lecturer and holds several committee and editorial board memberships with national scientific societies and journals. Among other honors, Dr. Fong is the recipient of the 1996 Boyer Research Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the 1999 James IV Surgical Traveler Award from the James IV Association of Surgeons, and the 2002 Shipley Award from the Southern Surgical Association. He joined the CAIB in early 2006. |
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Dr Roy Santosham, MD |
Professor of Radiology
SR Medical College anWith clinical experience over 15 years, Dr. Roy Santosham is one of the pioneers in CT guided interventions with specialization in percutaneous biopsies, vertebroplasty. One of the early users of Radio frequency ablations in India, Dr. Roy has received advanced training on RFA from Dr. Lencioni at University of PISA
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Dr Srinivas Desai, MD |
HOD, Radiology and Imaging.
Jaslok Hospital and research center, Mumbai India.
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