Clinical Focus

• Diagnostic Radiology
• Radiology

Administrative Appointments

• Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Department of Radiology (2007 - present)

Professional Education

Current Research Interests

I am interested in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular malformations in both children and adults; all aspects of gynecological intervention, especially uterine fibroid embolization; and in the developing sciences of quality, safety, and radiology informatics.

Clinical Trials

• ExAblate (Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery) Treatment of Metastatic Bone Tumors for the Palliation of Pain Recruiting
• MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery using ExAblate Conformal Bone System for Treatment of Metastatic Bone Tumors for the Palliation of Pain Recruiting
• Early TIPS for Ascites Recruiting
• IVC Filter Registry Recruiting
• Interventional Thrombus Removal Recruiting

Publications

• Percutaneous cholecystostomy for acute cholecystitis: ten-year experience. Joseph T, Unver K, Hwang GL, Rosenberg J, Sze DY, Hashimi S, Kothary N, Louie JD, Kuo WT, Hofmann LV, Hovsepian DM. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012; 23 (1): 83-88.e1
• Cancer-Associated Aorto-Enteric Fistula. Singh S, Ladabaum U, Hovsepian DM, Triadafilopoulos G. Dig Dis Sci. 2011
• Common iliac vein stenosis and risk of symptomatic pulmonary embolism: an inverse correlation. Chan KT, Popat RA, Sze DY, Kuo WT, Kothary N, Louie JD, Hovsepian DM, Hwang GL, Hofmann LV. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2011; 22 (2): 133-41
• Complex Retrieval of Embedded IVC Filters: Alternative Techniques and Histologic Tissue Analysis. Kuo WT, Cupp JS, Louie JD, Kothary N, Hofmann LV, Sze DY, Hovsepian DM. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2011
• Consolidation of hepatic arterial inflow by embolization of variant hepatic arteries in preparation for yttrium-90 radioembolization. Abdelmaksoud MH, Louie JD, Kothary N, Hwang GL, Kuo WT, Hofmann LV, Hovsepian DM, Sze DY. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2011; 22 (10): 1364-1371.e1