Aradhana M. Venkatesan, MD Staff Clinician Radiology and Imaging Sciences Academic Degrees BA, Biology, Swarthmore College BA, English Literature, Swarthmore College MD, Harvard Medical School Email: venkatesana@cc.nih.gov Phone: 301-443-5322

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. In Body Imaging, she provides interpretations for plain film radiography, fluoroscopy, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and in Interventional Radiology, she offers expertise in non-vascular interventions. She is an associate investigator on several protocols currently recruiting at the National Institutes of Health.

Clinical interests include abdominal imaging, hepatobiliary imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, CT dose reduction and image quality improvement, CT technique and injection protocol optimization for abdominal applications, and dose reduction strategies for abdominal CT applications.

Research interests include the description of imaging findings in hereditary cancer cohorts, the validation of novel image analysis algorithms for clinical cancer staging, quantitative imaging with particular interest in volumetric CT for monitoring of tumor response, and the validation of minimally invasive and novel non-invasive image-guided therapies for cancer.

Dr. Venkatesan is Board Certified by the American Board of Radiology. She is a member of the American College of Radiology, and currently serves as the Chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Guidelines and Standards Committee for Interventional Radiology. She is also a member of the Radiological Society of North America, the Society of Abdominal Radiology, the Society for Interventional Radiology, the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a reviewer for the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the International Journal of Hyperthermia, the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, and for Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology.

Selected Publications

1. Lewis EI, Chason RJ, Decherney AH, Armstrong A, Elkas J, Venkatesan AM. Novel hormone treatment of benign metastasizing leiomyoma: an analysis of five cases and literature review. Fertil Steril. 2013 Mar 2. [Epub ahead of print].
   
   
2. Azad N, Yu M, Davidson B, Choyke P, Chen CC, Wood BJ, Venkatesan A, Henning R, Calvo K, Minasian L, Edelman DC, Meltzer P, Steinberg SM, Annunziata CM, Kohn EC. Translational predictive biomarker analysis of the phase 1b sorafenib and bevacizumab study expansion cohort. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2013 Feb 28. [Epub ahead of print]
   
   
3. Abi-Jaoudeh N, Kruecker J, Kadoury S, Kobeiter H, Venkatesan AM, Levy E, Wood BJ. Multimodality Image Fusion-Guided Procedures: Technique, Accuracy, and Applications. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2012 Oct;35(5):986-98. Epub 2012 Aug 1.
   
   
4. Venkatesan AM, Partanen A, Pulanic TK, Dreher MR, Fischer J, Zurawin RK, Muthupillai R, Sokka S, Nieminen HJ, Sinaii N, Merino M, Wood BJ, Stratton P. Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided Volumetric Ablation of Symptomatic Leiomyomata: Correlation of Imaging with Histology. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012 Jun; 23(6):786-794.e4.
   
   
5. Trivedi H, Turkbey B, Rastinehad AR, Benjamin CJ, Bernardo M, Pohida T, Shah V, Merino MJ, Wood BJ, Linehan WM, Venkatesan AM, Choyke PL, Pinto PA. Use of patient-specific MRI-based prostate mold for validation of multiparametric MRI in localization of prostate cancer. Urology 2012 Jan; 79(1): 233-239.
   
   
6. Kitano M, Millo C, Rahbari R, Herscovitch P, Gesuwan K, Webb RC, Venkatesan AM, Phan GQ, Hughes MS, Libutti SK, Nilubol N, Linehan WM, Kebebew E. Comparison of 6-(18)F-Fluoro-l-DOPA, (18)F-2-deoxy-d-glucose, CT and MRI in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms with von Hippel-Lindau disease. Surgery. 2011 Dec;150(6):1122-1128.
   
   
7. Leiding JW, Freeman AF, Marciano BE, Anderson VL, Uzel G, Malech HL, Deravin S, Wilks D, Venkatesan AM, Zerbe CS, Heller T, Holland SM. Corticosteroid Therapy for Liver Abscess in Chronic Granulomatous Disease. Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Dec 9. [Epub ahead of print]
   
   
8. Venkatesan AM, Trivedi H, Adams KT, Kebebew E, Pacak K, Hughes MB. Comparison of clinical and imaging features in SDHB+ versus sporadic paragangliomas. Surgery 2011; 150(6): 1186-1193.
   
   
9. Venkatesan AM, Wood BJ, Gervais DA. Percutaneous Ablation in the Kidney. Radiology 2011; Nov;261 (2):375-91.
   
   
10. Venkatesan AM, Kadoury S, Abi-Jaoudeh N, Levy EB, Maass-Moreno R, Kruecker J, Dalal S, Xu S, Glossop N, Wood B. Real-Time FDG-PET Guidance during Biopsies and Radiofrequency Ablation Using Multimodality Fusion with Electromagnetic Navigation. Radiology 2011; Sep;260(3):848-56.
    
    
11. Venkatesan AM, Kundu S, Sacks D, Wallace MJ, Wojack JC, Rose SC, Clark TW, d'Othee BJ, Itkin M, Jones RS, Miller DL, Owens CA, Rajan DK, Stokes LS, Swan TL, Towbin RB, Cardella JF. Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Interventional Radiology Procedures. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2010; 21(11): 1611-1630.
    
    
12. Venkatesan AM, Steinberg SM, Fojo AT, Bates SE. A Pharmacodynamic study of docetaxel in combination with the P-glycoproein antagonist, tariquidar (XR9576) in patients with lung, ovarian and cervical cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2011; Jan 25 [Epub ahead of print.]
    
    
13. Wood BJ, Kruecker J, Abi-Jaoudeh N, Locklin J, Levy E, Xu S, Solbiati L, Kapoor A, Amalou H, Venkatesan AM. Navigation Systems for Ablation. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2010; 21: S257-S263.
    
    
14. Gupta S, Wallace MJ, Cardella JF, Kundu S, Miller DL, Rose SC, Angle JF, Brown DB, D'Agostino HR, Kalva SP, Khan AA, Saiter CK, Schwartzberg MS, Shah SS, Stokes L, Venkatesan A, Zuckerman DA. Quality improvement guidelines for percutaneous needle biopsy. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2010; 21 (7): 969-975.
    
    
15. Venkatesan AM, Locklin J, Dupuy DE, Wood BJ. Percutaneous Ablation of Adrenal Tumors. Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2010; 13(2): 89-99.
    
    
16. Venkatesan AM, Locklin J, Lai E, Adams KT, Pacak K, Fojo T, Wood BJ. Radiofrequency Ablation of Metastatic Pheochromocytoma. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2009; 20(11):1483-90.
    
    
17. Kerkar SP, Kemp CD, Duffy A, Kammula US, Schrump DS, Kwong KF, Quezado M, Goldspiel BR, Venkatesan A, Berger A, Walker M, Toomey MA, Steinberg SM, Giaccone G, Rosenberg SA, Avital I. The GYMSSA trial: a prospective randomized trial comparing gastrectomy, metastasectomy plus systemic therapy versus systemic therapy alone. Trials 2009; 10:121.
    
    
18. Sahani DV, Lin DJ, Venkatesan AM, Sainani N, Mino-Kenudson M, Brugge WR, Fernandez-del-Castillo C. Multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management of intraductal papillary and mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2009; 7(3): 259-263.
    
    
19. Stone MJ, Venkatesan AM, Locklin J, Pinto P, Linehan M, Wood BJ. Radiofrequency Ablation of Renal Tumors. Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2007; 10(2): 132-139.
    
    
20. Venkatesan AM, Gervais DA, Mueller P. Percutaneous Radiofrequency Thermal Ablation of Primary and Metastatic Hepatic Tumors: Current Concepts and a Review of the Literature. Seminars in Interventional Radiology 2006; 23: 73-84.