Parag J. Patel MD MS FSIR is a Professor of Radiology and Surgery in the Division of Vascular & Interventional Radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the immediate Past-President of the Society of Interventional Radiology (2023-24). He is the Program Director for the Interventional Radiology Residency programs at MCW. Dr. Patel has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences and has authored several book chapters in the field of Interventional Radiology. He served on the Executive Council for SIR as the Graduate Medical Education Councilor where he helped to oversee the national transition of IR Training into the new IR Residency as well as development of Residency Essentials, a universal IR Residency training curriculum. He serves on the Board of Directors for the VIVA Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the field of vascular medicine and intervention through education, research, advocacy, and collaboration.
His areas of interest include evaluation and endovascular treatment of peripheral vascular disease, complex aortic disease, venous disease as well as embolization therapies. He has served as the Principal Investigator for the ATTRACT Study and BEST-CLI Trial at Froedtert & MCW.