In this episode, guest host Dr. Nicholas Fidelman interviews Dr. Michael Solen, a key player in the development and widespread adoption of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). The doctors discuss how TACE became a major therapeutic option for liver tumors, his preferred method of TACE dosage and management, and exciting new frontiers in chemoembolization. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company https://www.varian.com/ --- SHOW NOTES Dr. Soulen recalls his first ever T...
Oct 28, 2022•56 min
In this episode, guest host Dr. Steven Raman interviews a founding father of percutaneous tumor ablation, Dr. Luigi Solbiati about the development of this revolutionary treatment, new therapies that have stemmed from it, and his vision for the future of interventional oncology. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company https://www.varian.com/ --- SHOW NOTES Dr. Solbiati was a radiologist at the General Hospital of Busto Arsizio when he developed an interest in cancer in th...
Oct 26, 2022•43 min
In this episode, guest host Dr. Sean Tutton interviews Dr. Bill Rilling and Dr. Sarah White about the history of the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO), their current research and volunteer involvement, and future directions of the society. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company https://www.varian.com/ --- SHOW NOTES We begin by discussing how the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) began. It started as the World Conference of Interventional Oncology (WCIO), ...
Oct 24, 2022•39 min
In this back to the basics episode, Dr. Christopher Beck interviews Dr. Aaron Fritts about his standard procedure for nephrostomy tube placement, preferred tools, and troubleshooting tips. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Reflow Medical https://www.reflowmedical.com/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/yEfEUY --- SHOW NOTES Dr. Fritts says that most of his referrals come from urology, and patients need treatment for hydr...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 26 min
In this episode, Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Christopher Beck about gastrostomy tubes, including the evolution of his method, tips for patients who pull their tubes out, and why g-tubes are such a controversial topic in IR. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Laurel Road for Doctors https://www.laurelroad.com/healthcare-banking/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/B9TbcW --- SHOW NOTES We begin by discussing indications...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 10 min
In this episode, Dr. Ally Baheti interviews interventional radiologist Dr. Judy Gichoya about her recent paper on artificial intelligence (AI) and the use of a deep learning model to recognize patients’ self-described racial identity, based on radiology images. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Medtronic Concerto https://mobile.twitter.com/mdtvascular Viz.ai https://www.viz.ai/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/XIPsKR ...
Oct 14, 2022•33 min
In this episode, Dr. Vishal Kumar interviews Dr. Mark Wilson, vice chair and professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at UCSF, and chief of diagnostic and interventional radiology at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center about the evolution of trauma care in interventional radiology, translational research, and the impact of mentorship and student outreach. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR RADPAD® Radiation Protection https://www.radpad.com/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how th...
Oct 10, 2022•45 min
In this episode, BackTable is on location in Barcelona for CIRSE 2022! Dr. Aaron Fritts conducts a live video interview with interventional radiologist Dr. Lorenzo Patrone. They discuss their experiences with balancing clinical, academic, and family responsibilities, as well as differences in the American and European physician work environments and the use of social media in medicine. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Reflow Medical https://www.reflowmedical.com/ Medtronic Chocolate PTA Balloon https:...
Oct 07, 2022•52 min
In this episode, Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Peder Horner about the impact of staff culture on patient care, how to manage bad players, and how to maintain an active role in shaping a healthy work culture. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Accountable Physician Advisors http://www.accountablephysicianadvisors.com/ Accountable Revenue Cycle Solutions https://www.accountablerevcycle.com/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earn...
Oct 03, 2022•50 min
In this episode, Dr. Vishal Kumar interviews trauma surgeon Dr. Andre Campbell about his career path and policy interests, including gun safety, nationwide access to trauma care, and diversity and inclusion within surgical subspecialties. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR RADPAD® Radiation Protection https://www.radpad.com/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/oKVBfW --- SHOW NOTES Dr. Campbell starts the conversation by e...
Sep 30, 2022•52 min
In this episode, guest host Dr. Jacob Fleming interviews Dr. Jason Cox about musculoskeletal interventions and how he uses ultrasound for diagnosis and intervention in his full spectrum musculoskeletal practice. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Laurel Road for Doctors https://www.laurelroad.com/healthcare-banking/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/ZHCWxF --- SHOW NOTES We begin by discussing Dr. Cox’s path to MSK inter...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, host Dr. Ally Baheti interviews Dr. Jayson Brower about building a Y90 service line in his outpatient based lab (OBL). --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Boston Scientific Lab Agent https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/customer-service/ordering/lab-agent.html --- SHOW NOTES First, Dr. Brower describes the IR/DR makeup of his practice and partnerships with surrounding hospitals. Inland Imaging’s collaboration with the Providence healthcare system was formed to provide quality outpatient...
Sep 23, 2022•42 min
In this episode, host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Ali Alikhani about his solo outpatient IR practice, how he leveraged his sales background in the OBL setting, and marketing advice for IRs in an outpatient practice. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Medtronic IN.PACT 018 DCB https://www.medtronic.com/018 Boston Scientific Nextlab https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/nextlab.html?utm_source=oth_site&utm_medium=native&utm_campaign=pi-at-us-nextlab-hci&utm_content=n-backtable-n-backtable...
Sep 19, 2022•52 min
In this episode, our hosts Drs. Michael Barraza and Aaron Fritts interview Dr. John Pavlus about his methods of drain placement, monitoring, and removal, as well as his vision to design an ideal drainage system. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Medtronic Abre Venous Stent https://www.medtronic.com/abrevenous --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/5KfOLv --- SHOW NOTES In this episode, our hosts Drs. Michael Barraza and Aaro...
Sep 16, 2022•49 min
In this episode, guest host Dr. Jacob Fleming interviews Dr. Dan Nguyen about MSK and neurologic pain interventions, specifically how he evaluates and treats different types of headaches at his practice. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Athletic Greens https://www.athleticgreens.com/backtablevi RADPAD® Radiation Protection https://www.radpad.com/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/Lt1TRq --- SHOW NOTES Dr. Nguyen left ...
Sep 12, 2022•58 min
In this episode, guest host Jill Sommerset interviews vascular surgeon Dr. Miguel Montero-Baker about his evolving use of ultrasound throughout his career in caring for critical limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) patients. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Boston Scientific Eluvia Drug-Eluting Stent https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/medical-specialties/vascular-surgery/drug-eluting-therapies/eluvia/eluvia-clinical-trials.html?utm_source=oth_site&utm_medium=native&utm_campaign=pi-at-us-de_port...
Sep 09, 2022•51 min
In this episode, guest host Dr. Donald Garbett interviews Drs. Geogy Vatakencherry, Zaeem Billah, and Kartik Kansagra about the IR integrated residency, how it’s evolving, and what students should be doing to prepare for this rigorous training program. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Medtronic IN.PACT 018 DCB https://www.medtronic.com/018 --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/5RwqRC --- SHOW NOTES We begin by discussing t...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 6 min
In this episode, our host Dr. Aaron Fritts and Dr. Jason Iannuccilli dive into the history, science, and future directions of medical cannabis. We discuss Dr. Iannuccilli’s founding vision for PureVita Labs, a company focused on developing standardized testing for cannabis products and ensuring consumer safety. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Athletic Greens https://www.athleticgreens.com/backtablevi --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: ...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 11 min
In this episode, guest host Dr. Shamit Desai interviews Dr. Keerthi Prasad about his path to starting an IR practice alongside interventional pain specialists. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Medtronic VenaSeal https://www.medtronic.com/venaseal Boston Scientific Lab Agent https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/customer-service/ordering/lab-agent.html --- SHOW NOTES This unique collaboration started after Dr. Prasad finished fellowship. He describes the support and investment that his anesthesiologis...
Aug 29, 2022•41 min
In this episode, guest host Dr. Venu Vadlamudi interviews Dr. Martin Radvany about where neurointerventional training stands in 2022, including stroke training for residents, barriers that IRs face in finding training after residency, and future directions of stroke care. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR RapidAI http://rapidai.com/?utm_campaign=Evergreen&utm_source=Online&utm_medium=podcast&utm_term=Backtable&utm_content=Sponsor --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your d...
Aug 26, 2022•54 min
In this episode, host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Drs. Chad Laurich and Neal Khurana about how they looked past traditional competition between IR and vascular surgery to build a multidisciplinary practice to meet market need and provide comprehensive patient care for an underserved community in South Dakota. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Viz.ai https://www.viz.ai/ Boston Scientific Nextlab https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/nextlab.html?utm_source=oth_site&utm_medium=native&utm_campaig...
Aug 22, 2022•54 min
In this episode, our host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews physician-entrepreneur couple Drs. Kasie and Rockford Adkins about the path to starting their healthcare recruiting platform, STAT Careers. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS RapidAI http://rapidai.com/?utm_campaign=Evergreen&utm_source=Online&utm_medium=podcast&utm_term=Backtable&utm_content=Sponsor Athletic Greens https://www.athleticgreens.com/backtablevi --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn ...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, cohosts Dr. Michael Barraza and Dr. Aaron Fritts interview Dr. Chris Thomson, veterinary surgeon and interventional radiologist about how he learned veterinary IR, his area of focus in interventional oncology, and the future of the specialty. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Athletic Greens https://www.athleticgreens.com/backtablevi --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/7O0Ic5 --- SHOW NOTES Dr. Thomson be...
Aug 15, 2022•42 min
In this episode, host Dr. Jacob Fleming interviews Dr. Jack Jennings about cryoablation, multidisciplinary care, and practice building for the treatment of desmoid tumors. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR RADPAD® Radiation Protection https://www.radpad.com/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/aNJOCP --- SHOW NOTES First, Dr. Jennings describes the typical presentation of desmoid tumors, also known as “aggressive fibromat...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min
In this episode, host Dr. Eric Keller interviews Dr. Sean Tutton about palliative care as an interventionalist, how he became interested in palliative care, and why he believes it is a crucial aspect of patient care in interventional radiology. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR RADPAD® Radiation Protection https://www.radpad.com/ --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/OYDxfn --- SHOW NOTES The role of palliative care is to t...
Aug 08, 2022•51 min
In this episode, host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Rachael Forsythe and Dr. Konstantinos Stravapoulas about their Research Collaborative for Peripheral Arterial Disease (RCPAD) survey on bullying in the European vascular workplace, and overall trends in reported bullying incidents. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Medtronic Abre Venous Stent https://www.medtronic.com/abrevenous --- SHOW NOTES We start the episode by learning about the RCPAD goals to enhance research collaboration between European va...
Aug 05, 2022•29 min
In this episode, host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Aneesa Majid and Dr. Roger Tomihama about how an MBA can benefit physicians and their career goals, and how they both went about getting their MBAs as mid career interventional radiologists. The CME experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and unlock credits & more: https://earnc.me/OrwQwd --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Athletic Greens https://www.athleticgreens.com/backtablevi --- SHOW NOTES We begin by discussi...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 11 min
In this episode, guest host and vascular technologist Jill Sommerset interviews interventional radiologist Dr. Mary Costantino about the use of advanced arterial ultrasound in the setting of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), especially in pre-procedural mapping. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Boston Scientific Eluvia Drug-Eluting Stent https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/medical-specialties/vascular-surgery/drug-eluting-therapies/eluvia/eluvia-clinical-trials.html?utm_source=oth_site&u...
Jul 29, 2022•38 min
In this episode, host Dr. Michael Barraza interviews Dr. Kyle Cooper, interventional radiologist and Dr. Tahmeed Contractor, electrophysiologist about how IR and EP work together at their institution, including how they perform complex pacer lead removals, and how the have embraced collaboration over competition. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Inari Medical https://www.inarimedical.com/ --- SHOW NOTES The doctors begin by discussing how they began working together. It was somewhat by chance that they...
Jul 25, 2022•51 min
Host Aparna Baheti interviews Barbara Hamilton and Aarti Luhar about navigating training and early career during a pregnancy. They discuss factors to consider such as scheduling, parental leave policies, radiation exposure risks, and childcare. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Athletic Greens https://www.athleticgreens.com/backtablevi Medtronic Abre Venous Stent https://www.medtronic.com/abrevenous --- SHOW NOTES Our guests start by sharing their paths to motherhood. Dr. Luhar was pregnant as a diagno...
Jul 22, 2022•58 min
