Sanjeeva Kalva

Biography

Sanjeeva Kalva, M.D., grew up in South India. He was drawn to medicine, he recalls, “as an opportunity to serve other people at a very close level.” He trained there in interventional radiology (IR), then spent four years on faculty at Kovai Medical Center and Hospital, Coimbatore, India, where he performed wide-ranging vascular interventional procedures. “Interventional radiology is a very exciting field,” says Dr. Kalva. “You can achieve a lot of good results with very minimally invasive procedures. That attracted me quite a bit.” In 2003, Dr. Kalva joined the Harvard Medical School as a researcher, studying abdominal interventions at Massachusetts General Hospital. He then did an IR fellowship there, and after completion he was recruited at once to the Harvard faculty. Dr. Kalva spent a decade at Harvard caring for patients, teaching, and conducting cutting-edge research in IR before joining the UT Southwestern faculty as Chief of Interventional Radiology in 2013. In addition to leading multiple research studies and publishing book chapters, a book, and many peer-reviewed papers, he has helped establish standards of care for his peers in the field, including the use of inferior vena cava filters and the management of aortic disease. He is actively involved in education, teaching IR to medical students, residents, and fellows and offering interdisciplinary lectures to physicians whose specialties overlap with IR.

Research Interest

Liver Cancer, Chemoembolization, Radioembolization, Ablation Portal Hypertension, Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt, Balloon-occluded Retrograde Trasnsvenous Obliteration of varices Pulmonary Vascular Diseases: Arteriovenous malformation, Thromboembolism Varicose veins, Chronic Venous insufficiency, Venous hypertension, Endovenous Laser Ablation, Sclerotherapy, Phlebectomy Venous thromboembolism, Vena Cava Filters, Venous thrombolysis