Dr. Sudhen Desai is section chief of Interventional Radiology and vice-chief of Strategy and Innovation (Radiology) at Phoenix Children’s. He is fellowship trained in both pediatric and adult vascular and interventional radiology.
At Phoenix Children’s, he is a member of the Surgery Committee, Laser Safety Committee and of the institutional research board (IRB). He is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona and Creighton University Schools of Medicine. Dr. Desai is also a Fellow of the Society of Interventional
Radiology, conferred to less than 15% of the SIR members.
After completing a six-year BS/MD program in conjunction with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Desai earned his Doctor of Medicine degree with Distinction in Research and Alpha Omega Alpha honors from Albany Medical College. During his later years of medical school, he was selected as a scholar of the Clinical Research Training Program at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health — a clinical fellowship geared toward the development of translational researchers.
He then went on to general surgery internship at Stanford University and a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco. His residencies were followed by a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology at Northwestern University.
Dr. Desai was a private practice adult interventional and diagnostic radiologist for 10 years. In July 2016, he followed his desire to serve the pediatric population and returned to fellowship for an advanced training year with a focus on pediatric interventional radiology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, he joined Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as an Assistant Professor at Texas Children’s Hospital.
His primary research interests focus on congenital vascular anomalies and vascular access, as well as leveraging data analytics to improve patient care. As vice-chief for Research and Innovation, he and his team focus on outcomes data for pediatric enteral tubes and development of novel interventional devices and techniques, as well as developing inter-institutional collaborations across the country.
In his time outside the clinic, he serves as a consultant to multiple established and start-up medical companies (TVA Medical, Exit BD/Bard 2018), scientific advisor to Santé Ventures (Austin, Texas) and has been a consultant for Philips Medical.
Previously he was an invited advisor to the Rice University Jones School of Business (Technology Entrepreneurship) and a member of the Advisory Council for the Master’s in Clinical Translation Management at the St. Thomas (Houston, Texas) University Cameron School of Business. He has been appointed to multiple committees for the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and has lectured at numerous SIR annual meetings. He was the chief editor for IR Quarterly, a distribution of the SIR.
While not tending to his clinical practice, Dr. Desai spends time with his greatest accomplishments. He is married with three amazing children and is an avid fan of international soccer.