Interventional Radiology Residency

Welcome! We offer innovative interventional radiology training programs providing today's trainees with the tools to solve tomorrow's challenges in dynamic high-volume, clinical needs-driven image-guided medicine. Our state-of-the-art facilities and world-class clinical and research faculty provide an unmatched training experience for doctors who aspire to rewarding careers in image-guided medicine.

We insist on ethical care of the communities we serve and advocate for health care justice and equality. Diversity, equity and inclusion are foundational principles and we are proud of our diverse faculty, staff, and trainees. We provide ample opportunities for our residents to become agents of positive change with technology-driven, patient-focused health care, and work to prepare our trainees to become national leaders in the profession.

Collegial and collaborative define our programs. Achieving excellence in patient care requires a team effort, which is why our trainees not only work closely with faculty and with each other, they also learn to practice in a team environment that includes imaging technologists, nurses, advanced practice providers, and administrative staff.

We invite you to learn more about our pathways to interventional radiology residency and practice and to explore how we can become part of your professional journey.

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Emory’s interventional radiology residency programs offer high-volume, dynamic, and diverse clinical experiences. Training includes an broad range of procedures as well as inpatient and outpatient consultation opportunities with interventional radiology clinics running every day of the week. 

Trainees' experiences include exposure to the following areas of image-guided medicine (in no specific order):

• Interventional oncology including selective internal radiotherapy/radioembolization/dosimetry), ablation, chemoembolization, bland embolization
• Transplant interventions
• Hepatobiliary interventions including percutaneous biliary duct placement, percutaneous cholecystostomy, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, and balloon-occlusion retrograde transvenous obliteration
• Reproductive health interventions including uterine fibroid embolization, postpartum hemorrhage embolization, pelvic venous disorder, and prostate artery embolization
• Trauma interventions
• Endocrine interventions including adrenal venous sampling and selective arterial calcium injection
• Venous interventions including venous access, central venous stenosis recanalization, complex inferior vena cava filter retrieval
• Deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism thrombectomy/thrombolysis
• Pain/palliation interventions including genicular nerve ablation, shoulder/hip pain therapies, cryoneurolysis
• Cross-sectional procedures (CT/US-guided interventions including percutaneous robotics)
• Transradial interventions

Several areas are seeing continually increasing growth at Emory:

• Arterial interventions (peripheral arterial disease, acute limb ischemia, and critical limb ischemia)
• Dialysis interventions (including percutaneous arteriovenous fistula creation, fistulograph, declot)

Please note this list is not exhaustive and includes procedures we provide in higher volumes at Emory. Several of these areas include topics for which Emory Radiology faculty have unique expertise and have served as pioneers. Many program graduates go on to serve in leadership roles in their practices, bringing a wealth of expertise with them.

Emory residents have significant opportunities to perform basic and clinical research, as well as engage in unique areas of scholarship such as addressing health inequity in interventional radiology, global/(g)local interventional radiology, and innovation/biodesign. We provide a well-rounded experience that encourages participation in professional associations and annual conferences such as RSNA, SIR, and others.

Residents rotate at several hospitals in the metropolitan Atlanta area, each one providing specific experiences with interventional radiology practice.

Emory University Hospital, a 733-bed tertiary care hospital on the Emory University Druid Hills campus, consistently ranked one of U.S. News' "America's Best Hospitals" in multiple adult specialties and a leader in transplant care. This includes the prestigious Winship Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center with a large presence on the Clifton campus.

Emory University Hospital Midtown, a 583-bed acute care teaching facility in the heart of Atlanta which includes reproductive health (serving as Emory's labor and delivery center) and the new Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown, which includes a state-of-the-art interventional oncology center. Emory Midtown also is home for an innovative interventional radiology partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology; its proximity to Georgia Tech's campus provides ample opportunities for collaboration with biomedical engineering and industrial and systems engineering design teams.

Grady Memorial Hospital, a 989-bed level I trauma center with renowned expertise in emergency and trauma services and public hospital serving the needs of patients across Fulton and DeKalb counties (the two counties comprising most of the city of Atlanta).

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, comprises three different hospitals for patients under 21 years of age. Most of the current trainee experience is at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Egleston Hospital adjacent to Emory University Hospital. Egleston has top-rated programs in level I pediatric trauma, pediatric intensive care, and pediatric surgery/transplant, as well as a vascular anomalies clinic led by the interventional radiology team. The new state-of-the-art Arthur M. Blank Hospital is nearing completion and will set a new standard for pediatric care when it opens in 2024.

Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a 466-bed level IA tertiary care facility with expertise in delivering image-guided medical services to veterans and advanced experience in oncology and hepatobiliary service lines.

Additional hospitals in the Emory system for which the Emory interventional radiology team provides services includes Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Emory Decatur Hospital, and Emory Hillandale Hospital. These hospitals deliver high-level and exceptional interventional radiology services to the highly diverse metro Atlanta region. Research and elective experiences may be available at these institutions for residents over the course of training.