Biosketch
Dr. Venkatesan earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She also holds dual undergraduate degrees in Biology and English Literature from Swarthmore College. Her training includes two fellowships, one in Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology and one in Musculoskeletal Imaging, both from Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Venkatesan also completed her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident.
She maintains a full clinical schedule, with her clinical duties being divided between the Diagnostic Body Imaging section and the Interventional Radiology section, where she specializes in non-vascular interventions.
Dr. Venkatesan’s clinical research activities include the optimization of interventional oncology techniques, including minimally invasive methods of tumor ablation and the use of electromagnetic needle tracking and multi-modality image fusion to facilitate percutaneous interventions. Her clinical interests also include improving the specificity of diagnostic oncologic imaging, and the potential relationships between imaging features and specific genomic and proteomic abnormalities in cancer cohorts.
Dr. Venkatesan is Board Certified by the American Board of Radiology. She is a member of the Radiological Society of North America, the Society for Interventional Radiology, the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, the American College of Radiology and the American Association of Women Radiologists.
Selected Publications
A.M. Venkatesan, S.K. Shetty, G.M. Galdino, J.A. Davila, T.M. Lawrimore and K.M. Foster. 2006. “The Impact of Professional Turf Battles on Radiology Resident Education: Perspectives from the Class of 2005.” Journal of the American College of Radiology. 3: 537-543.
A.M. Venkatesan, D.A. Gervais and P.R. Mueller. 2006. “Percutaneous Radiofrequency Thermal Ablation of Primary and Metastatic Hepatic Tumors: Current Concepts and a Review of the Literature.” Seminars in Interventional Radiology. 23: 73-84.
M.J. Stone, A.M. Venkatesan, J. Locklin, P. Pinto, M. Linehan, B.J. Wood. 2007. “Radiofrequency Ablation of Renal Tumors.” Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 10(2): 132-139.
UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS
A.M. Venkatesan, J. Locklin, E.Lai, K.T. Adams, K. Pacak, T. Fojo, S. Libutti, B.J. Wood. “Image-Guided Radiofrequency Ablation of Metastatic Pheochromocytoma.” [Review]
A.M. Venkatesan, D. Gervais, B. Wood. “Radiofrequency Ablation in the Kidney.” [Review].
N. Azad, A.M. Venkatesan, B. Wood, E. Kohn “Sequential Tumor Biopsies in Early Phase Clinical Trials of Anticancer Agents for Pharmacodynamic Evaluation.” [Original Article]
J. Pingpank, A.M. Venkatesan. “Comparative Analysis of CT versus MRI in the Staging of Metastatic Ocular Melanoma.” [Original Article]
A.M. Venkatesan, et. al. “Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Interventional Procedures: Recommendations from the Society for Interventional Radiology Standards of Practice Committee.” [Review].
