Dr. Shamit Desai, MD is a practicing interventional radiologist and a founding member of Physician Staffing Solutions, LLC. He attended Rutgers Medical School and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine for his residency and fellowship in Vascular & Interventional Radiology. His clinical practice focuses on superficial and deep venous disease, peripheral vascular disease, spine interventions, uterine fibroid embolization, and interventional oncology. He is the director of the venous thromboembolism (VTE) program at two Chicagoland hospitals. Dr. Desai is the special advisor for IR at Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University. He has published extensively in interventional radiology and vascular surgery, frequently hosted and made guest appearances on podcasts and other media in the field, and is a consultant and educator for several medical device companies. He is a proponent of the clinical progress of the field of interventional radiology, and serves on the Society of Interventional Radiology Private Practice Advisory Committee (PPAC). An invited speaker at the Society of Interventional Radiology 2023 Annual meeting, his talk was entitled "the Future and Frontiers of IR". He is the moderator for the first-of-kind session "IR Locums" at an SIR Connect Town Hall in 2024, and an update on novel business models in IR at Western Angiography and Interventional Society Annual meeting in September 2024. He is a devoted husband and father of 2 and resides in Chicago. He enjoys tennis, film, travel, and spending time with his wife and two children.
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