Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE)

Bringing Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE) to the OBL setting means balancing cost efficiency, quality care, and a high procedure volume. What should you know and how can you get started? This week, host Dr. Ally Baheti explores outpatient PAE with Dr. Stephen “Andy” Vartanian, an independent interventional radiologist and medical director of PrecisionIR.

How can we make life-changing treatments like uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) more globally accessible? To help answer this question, Dr. Janice Newsome and Dr. Azza Naif share what they’re doing in Tanzania to make UFE a standard option in fibroid care. Dr. Newsome is a Professor at Emory University and Dr. Naif is an IR attending physician at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) and a member of the first generation of Tanzanian IR trainees.

Get a second opinion on your uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) technique. Dr. Gary Siskin joins host Dr. Chris Beck for an in-depth discussion on his approach to uterine fibroid embolization, detailing techniques, tools, and embolic agents. Dr. Siskin is an experienced UFE practitioner, professor, and Chair of the Department of Radiology and Chief of the Division of Vascular & Interventional Radiology at Albany Med Health System in New York.

In this episode, Dr. Nicole Lamparello discusses the strides and challenges in achieving gender equity in interventional radiology (IR), sharing insights from her research on gender disparities in IR, and revealing how women currently comprise a significantly low percentage of the IR workforce compared to men despite equal numbers of male and female medical students. Dr. Lamparello is an interventional radiologist and serves as the Program Director for Weill Cornell Medicine’s Integrated IR Residency in New York City.

In this episode of the BackTable Podcast, host Dr. Michael Barraza interviews guest Dr. Marcelo Guimaraes about the advantages and implementation of radial access in interventional radiology. Dr. Guimaraes is a vascular and interventional radiologist from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

In this episode of the BackTable Podcast, host Dr. Ally Baheti and Dr. Daniel Sheeran discuss the management and treatment of peripartum and postpartum hemorrhage.

In this episode, host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Aaron Kovaleski on good old-fashioned TV and radio marketing. Aaron is an interventional radiologist and founder of Endovascular Consultants of Colorado, who has found success in using tried and true methods of advertising to grow his practice.

On this episode, BackTable VI host Dr. Christopher Beck shares the mic with two Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) specialists, Drs. Roxane Rampersad at Washington University and Tony Shanks at Indiana University, to discuss cross-specialty management of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) between OBGYN and interventional radiology (IR).

Dr. Merve Ozen, interventional radiologist, and Dr. Mark Hoffman, minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon (MIGS), discuss how collaboration between IR and gynecologic surgery provides comprehensive medical, surgical, and interventional treatment options for women suffering from uterine fibroids, pelvic congestion syndrome and other causes of chronic pelvic pain.

In this episode we talk with Dr. John Lipman about his journey to going solo and opening an Outpatient Based Lab (OBL) dedicated to minimally invasive women's interventions, including Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE). John also gives us advice on the importance of finding your Ikigai in practice, the secret to a long and happy career!

John Lipman, MD discusses UFE practice building, patient workup, and embolization technique in his dedicated Women's interventional practice, Atlanta Interventional Institute.

Dr. Mary Costantino tells us the story of how she built her OBL practice in Portland and discusses the advantages of performing UFE and other procedures in the outpatient setting.

Dr. Keith Pereira and Dr. Chris Beck discuss building their UFE practice and transradial versus transfemoral approaches.