Welcome to the UTMB Department of Radiology. Major
missions of the department include providing outstanding clinical care
and radiology education.
Our outpatient sub-specialty
care center at Victory Lakes offers state of the art imaging across all
modalities, in a high end private practice like setting. Both at Victory
Lakes and on the main campus, the department offers the very latest
technology including dual energy CT, 3 T wide bore MRI, SPECT CT, and
interventional radiology (with dynaCT). The diagnostic imaging
facilities on the main campus represent a combination of equipment which
place the institution in the very top tier in the US, featuring a 128
channel 3 T MR system, a 128 detector dual source, dual energy CT, the
latest in advanced interventional angiography equipment, and a 16 slice
SPECT CT (with diagnostic quality CT).
Dr. Eric Walser, first served as Director of Interventional Radiology, before being appointed chairman of the Department of Radiology. An internationally renowned
interventional radiologist, Dr. Walser's clinical interests are
wide-ranging and include the use of non-surgical ablation for treatment
of small tumors in the liver and kidney as an alternative to open
surgery. He is highly regarded for his clinical expertise, and was named
by Best Doctors, Inc. as one of the best doctors in the country in
1996 and 2004 as a result of their annual peer review survey.
As a
researcher, he has secured industry sponsored funding for his
investigations in liver cancer therapy, thrombolytic therapy,
non-invasive arterial imaging and patient anticoagulation. He has
published extensively in peer-reviewed journals as well as book
chapters, and is a reviewer for many prestigious journals. Dr. Walser
has lectured throughout the world regarding cancer treatment and
minimally invasive surgical management. In the educational realm, he
has been very active in teaching and has mentored numerous residents and
fellows.
Dr. Walser earned his medical
degree from UTMB in 1988. He completed both his diagnostic radiology
residency training (1992) and interventional radiology and body imaging
fellowship training (1993) at the Indiana University Medical Center.
He began his professional career as Assistant Professor and Chief of
Diagnosis in the Department of Radiology at UTMB, where he served for
four years. Following a two-year appointment at the St. Paul Medical
Center - Department of Radiology in Dallas, Dr. Walser returned to
UTMB as Executive Vice Chairman and Director of Vascular and
Interventional Radiology and of Research. Most recently, he held the
appointment of Professor, Senior Associate Consultant in Interventional
Radiology, and Consultant in the Department of Radiology at the Mayo
Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. As chair, Dr. Walser oversees the daily functions of the the Department of Radiology and the
Vascular and Interventional Radiology Section, maintaining a close
dynamic collaboration with the surgical and oncology departments.