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 one week rotations at HUP and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia VA hospital and the Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia are covered in one month rotations . Four weeks are spent in a GU rotation with HUP's dedicated GU interventionalists and four weeks in a dedicated Research/Stent-Graft rotation during which the fellow is able to pursue clinical or laboratory based research and participate first-hand in HUPs very active stent-graft program.

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 abdominal, thoracic and peripheral venography as well as pulmonary angiography. We are extremely active in therapeutic procedures ranging from artery embolization and angioplasty and stenting to venous angioplasty, stenting and filter placement. Like most successful IR practices a large part of our work revolves around the dialysis patient. Unusual modalities such as lymphangiography 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 Chemoembolization Program as well as a Uterine Fibroid Embolization Program. We are integrally involved in abdominal and thoracic aortic stent-grafts (about 200 a year) with the fellows participating along with the interventional radiologist, surgeon, and vascular surgery fellow.
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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 15-20 cases per week and at the Presbyterian Medical Center approximately 30-40 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 two dedicated pediatric interventionalists.