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Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Raj Ayyagari graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 2004. He first began training in Urology at the University of Washington, but then chose to pursue a career in image-guided minimally invasive procedural therapy. He went on to complete a residency in Diagnostic Radiology and fellowship in Interventional Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2011, and thereafter returned to Yale to join the faculty as an interventional radiologist.
The mainstay of Dr. Ayyagari’s contributions over the past several years have been in the realm of prostatic artery embolization (PAE). He developed one of the first and largest PAE practices in the country, and in collaboration with several faculty from the Department of Urology, he has reported his outcomes at IR and Urology societal meetings and peer-reviewed journals. He is considered a leading expert on PAE and regularly lectures on the topic nationally and internationally.
In recent years, Dr. Ayyagari has implemented one of the few in-bore MRI-guided prostate biopsy programs in the country. The trans-perineal approach he utilizes significantly improves on the infection risk of the trans-rectal approach, while allowing direct visualization and sampling of suspicious lesions seen on diagnostic prostate MRI scans. Lately, Dr. Ayyagari has partnered with urologists at Yale to build one of a handful of centers in the world that offer a new MRI-guided transurethral prostate cancer ablation procedure, a treatment that has promise to become a game-changer in the treatment of prostate cancer.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:15 AM