DR. WILLIAM T. KUO, MD, FSIR, FCCP, FSVM, FACR, is Professor of Vascular & Interventional Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine where he is Director of the IR-DR Residency Program and Director of the Stanford IVC Filter Clinic. Dr. Kuo is a recognized expert on advanced IVC filter retrieval, venous interventions, and catheter-directed therapy (CDT) for acute PE. His landmark PE meta-analysis was the first to reveal the safety and effectiveness of CDT as a life-saving procedure for acute PE, leading to major changes in treatment guidelines. He has written many seminal and award-winning papers, and his work has been cited in major guidelines on antithrombotic therapy.

At Stanford, Dr. Kuo also pioneered the field of advanced IVC filter retrieval. Among several innovations, Dr. Kuo invented excimer laser-assisted IVC filter retrieval and he was the first to perform this procedure in humans. For this achievement, he received the Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award in 2011 from the SIR Foundation. Following this, his first-in-human clinical trial led to FDA clearance of the CavaClear Laser Sheath, and he received the international Award of Excellence and Innovation in IR from CIRSE in 2022.

Dr. Kuo's techniques have allowed thousands more patients each year, previously diagnosed with an irretrievable filter, to achieve safe and successful filter removal. In 2010, Dr. Kuo established the Stanford IVC Filter Clinic - a quaternary referral center that routinely accepts challenging cases from around the country and around the world.