Alok Bhatt

Welcome to the VISLA family!! Both Nicholas and Isabella were star rotators this past year and it’s a privilege to have them join our program. Excited to see our residency grow!

We are proud to announce that Vascular & Interventional is now an INDEPENDENT department at KP LAMC! Congrats to our chief Dr Ken Lam on this monumental achievement. This is yet another milestone in the continued evolution of EVIS as a distinct clinical and surgical specialty.

@linemonkeymd In a world where Non Physicians can market themselves in any subspecialty, IRs should not be timid. Get out there and do it. You all pioneered vascular work. It’s fine to team up with other specialties or work on your own. But absolutely know your value.

How about them Buckeyes…

"True, full-time clinical practice in IR can become a reality only if dual certification stops," - Interventional News editor-in-chief Andreas Adam writes in his Editorial Letter featured in our latest issue. Read the letter in full: interventionalnews.com/interventional…

Excited to announce that VISLA is now an investigation site for PE-TRACT! We are looking forward to contributing to this pivotal trial and help define the role of endovascular therapy for intermediate-risk PE. Also, thank you to our PCCM colleagues for their support! #PETRACT

Best medical therapy? Use of high-intensity statin therapy and LDL-C target attainment among PAD patients undergoing angioplasty pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36052607/?utm_… #ActAgainstAmputation

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@AMRamakrishnan Awesome work! Was great getting to meet so many future colleagues.

First Ever VIR Interest Group Social across the SoCal medical schools! Thank you to everyone who came out last night! Couldn’t have done it without my fellow coordinators.

Excellent Grand Rounds Lecture by well renowned Interventional radiologist @ABhattMD , a former OSU COM alum, on non-invasive imaging/diagnostic evaluation and intervention of peripheral artery disease!

@OSURadiology It was an honor to come back to where it all started. tOSU is a special place! Thank you for the invitation.

At the @AmDiabetesAssn Preventing Diabetes-Related Amputations in America Summit, @ABhattMD, along with @RBusui, @DGArmstrong & @FadiSaab17 spoke about how to achieve better outcomes for patients with #diabetes & spread awareness of #IRad as an option. fal.cn/3zRVL

Today at the @AmDiabetesAssn summit, SIR member @ABhattMD MD, will discuss #IRad procedures that improve outcomes for these patients and literally save lives and limbs. fal.cn/3zRae

Transcatheter arterialization of deep veins resulted in 6-month amputation-free survival in 66.1% of 105 patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia and no conventional options for treatment. Full results of PROMISE II study: nej.md/3KbRNpS #cardiology

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files. “We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” The inside story 🧵

@VIRkhaja @UMichRadiology @UMich @MattDavenportMD @MRInicole @umichmedicine @UMichMedSchool @UMichVIR @umichCVC @SIRspecialists Congrats Minhaj! Well deserved.

@UMichRadiology @UMich @MattDavenportMD @MRInicole @umichmedicine @UMichMedSchool @UMichVIR Truly an honor. Thank you all especially Dr. Williams for his mentorship! @UMichVIR @umichCVC @SIRspecialists

Three #RadFaculty were among 51 @umich faculty recognized at last week's Professorship Celebration event. Congratulations, Drs. Matt Davenport @MattDavenportMD, Minhaj Khaja @VIRkhaja, and Nicole Seiberlich @MRInicole on your new professorships! medicine.umich.edu/medschool/news…

#notgood #aortaed Now what? Relatively fit sexagenarian….

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I share because while benign, #BPH negatively effects QOL. #prostate artery #embolization #PAE is the right choice for many men. The focus should be on offering a collaborative and supportive approach so that we can help our patients as in this case @uab_ir @UABUrology