Dr. Darren Klass

Dr. Darren Klass is an established radiologist with extensive expertise in interventional radiology. He currently serves the people of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as an Interventional Radiologist at Vancouver Coastal Health, a position he embraced in 2011. He also acts as the Medical Head of the MRI division and specializes in interventional oncology, aortic intervention, PVD, venous disease, and venous access. His subspecialties are locoregional tumor therapy, MR angiography, and treatment of venous disease. Dr. Darrent Klass is also an Interventional Radiologist with Vancouver Imaging, a physician-led private practice also located in Vancouver, BC. The practice provides teleradiology, subspecialist image interpretation, interventional radiology and CT/MR protocol consulting. To complement the hands-on aspects of his work, he also dedicated to his role as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.


Dr. Darren Klass studied for his bachelor’s degree of medicine and bachelor’s degree of surgery in South Africa from the University of Pretoria in 2001. He also obtained his medical degree from the University of East Anglia in 2011. Upon finalizing his medical education in South Africa, he continued his career with his post graduate training at Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness in the United Kingdom during his internship (2002). He additionally conducted his residency in surgery at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, UK in 2005, which is where he also completed his radiology residency training in 2010. Dr. Klass went on to advance his training with a fellowship in interventional radiology at the University of British Columbia in 2010. He is board certified in radiology in Canada and the United Kingdom.


Dr. Darren Klass is a member of the Society of Interventional Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, and British Society of Radiology. He is also a Master of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), Fellow of Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC). Over the course of his career, he has published 11 publications and attributes his success to research, education, and patient care. In recognition of his remarkable performance in the field of radiology, he has been inducted into The Leading Physicians of the World published by the International Association of HealthCare Professionals (IAHCP).