Job Title
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Consultant Clinical Lead for Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Location
Related services
Specialty
- Clinical Radiology
Sub-specialty
- Musculoskeletal
- Gastrointestinal and Interventional Radiology
Biography
Dr. Zamir is a Consultant Radiologist with dual-accreditation in Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology and the Clinical Lead for Interventional Radiology at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He qualified with a distinction from the Imperial College School of Medicine and completed general & subspecialist radiological training at Imperial College having trained at several centres of international excellence including St. Mary’s Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal Marsden Hospital and Royal Free Hospital.
He has introduced multiple emergency & elective services including embolisation for internal bleeding, endovascular management of post-partum haemorrhage, percutaneous transhepatic biliary decompression, transjugular liver biopsies and uterine fibroid embolisation. He also has an interest in cardiac, gastrointestinal & musculoskeletal imaging and undertakes all manner of image-guided musculoskeletal intervention.
Areas of Expertise:
Interventional Radiology
Vascular
Angiography, angioplasty and stent insertions for peripheral vascular disease including complex revascularisation for critical limb ischaemia
Endovascular management of visceral and peripheral aneurysms
Embolisation for bleeding control (haemoptysis, post-traumatic, genitourinary and gastrointestinal bleeds)
Hepatobiliary procedures
Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC)
Biliary drainage and stenting
Transjugular liver biopsies
Genitourinary
Uterine artery embolisation for fibroids and adenomyosis
Pelvic congestion syndrome and pelvic varicose vein treatment
Varicocele embolisation
Renal angiomyolipoma treatment
Nephrostomy and ureteric stenting
Oncology
Simple and complex vascular access including portacaths and central venous catheters
Complex deep biopsies including lung and liver
Musculoskeletal
Image-guided joint, bursal, nerve root and facet joint injections
Diagnostic Radiology
Cardiac
CT coronary angiography
Vascular
Duplex of neck, abdominal and peripheral vasculature
CT and MR angiography
Musculoskeletal
Multi-modality imaging of orthopaedic and rheumatological disease including plain film, CT, MR and ultrasound
Imaging of sports injuries
Gastrointestinal
Multi-modality imaging of hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease
Fluoroscopic examinations
