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Shuvro Roy Choudhury

University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Heartlands Hospital

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Dr Shuvro H Roy-Choudhury, FRCS (London), FRCR (London), CCST (UK), FCIRSE, EBIR is a
Consultant in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology who works in India and part time in the UK with over
25 years of experience.
Professional Qualifications:
After completing his surgical training and FRCS, he trained in Radiology in Yorkshire before completing a
Fellowship in Interventional Radiology in Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital in London under the supervision of
Professor Andreas Adam, ex President of the Royal College of Radiologists and CIRSE. He has worked with
stalwarts in Interventional Radiology like Dr Riccardo Lencioni in Italy, Dr T DeBaere and Dr Afshin Gangi
in France. He is one of the first European Interventionists to be awarded the European Board and Fellowship.
He has worked as a senior Consultant in a leading teaching hospital in the UK since 2004 and as a lead in
Interventional Radiology in NH group of Hospitals, Kolkata, India since 2014.
Expertise and roles:
He practises the breadth of Abdominal, Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology with particular expertise
in tumour ablations like RFA, MWA and cryoablation, embolisations including fibroids and prostate,
complex needle biopsies, injections and drainages, biliary and urological stents, bone intervention, peripheral
arterial and venous interventions including varicose veins, dialysis fistula, TIPSS, Below knee interventions
etc. Since a sabbatical in India in 2012, he has successfully set up the first dedicated interventional lab and a
comprehensive team in Eastern India, including the first accredited training program in IR. This lab is
credited with several firsts in the region and performs complex interventions including aortic surgeries,
complex below knee angioplasties, often in close cooperation with other clinical specialities. This unit has
now expanded to 3 labs with a large team. He is also an expert in thoraco-abdominal CT and MRI including
the use of 320 slice CT, dual energy CT and is a key member of the tumour board in the cancer hospital.
Active in research and teaching, Dr Roy-Choudhury has 56 peer-reviewed publications, over 115
international scientific presentations, over 120 invited lectures and has contributed chapters in 8 textbooks.
He set up and ran the first tumour ablation service (lung, kidney and liver) in the Midlands (UK) and was the
author of the first European paper on kidney ablation. Research areas include tumour ablation, dialysis
access, fibroid embolisations, rectal cancer, perianal fistulae, GI bleeding, CT Colonography, laparoscopic
banding for obesity, abdominal trauma, biliary/enteral stents, pelvic floor imaging etc. He lectures widely
and is an invited faculty in several British (ACPGBI, BSIR), Indian (ISVIR, IRIA, TTRI, ARSCICON,
IACTI, APICON, USICON, EMCON, NEW, EVL, PULMOCON), European (ESGAR, CIRSE, ECIO),
Asia-Pacific (APCIO, APSCVIR, CCMA) and American (SIR, SPECTRUM) meetings and serves as a
reviewer of several European & Indian journals. He was awarded 5 clinical excellence awards in his 7 years
as a full time UK consultant. He has served as the Scientific Chair of several large international meetings
including ISVIR 2017, 2020, 2021, ACTA 2018 etc. He is a member of ISVIR, APSCVIR, BSIR, CIRSE,
SIR, RSNA, RCR and ECR. He is an active participant in various online training/ teaching programmes from
ISVIR, the National Board, RCR, APSCVIR etc. His academic output can be seen at the following link
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=gmYJKGIAAAAJ
64 articles, 931 citations
He has served as a vice president of ISVIR. He is currently the Vice President of the Indian Society of
Interventional Onco-Radiology and an executive member of APSCVIR. He is a proctor for tumour ablation,
prostate embolisation in India and is on the advisory board for several medical organisations. He was
awarded the ‘Hero’ in IR in Eastern India by ISVIR for changing the landscape of IR in this part of India,
where currently he heads the largest IR training centre in Eastern India He was the only international
interventional radiologist on a WHO team preparing an international document on kit and staffing for
hospitals in cancer management. He is often in the news, mostly credited with several ‘firsts’ in Eastern
India, including kidney ablation, trauma embolisation, fertility following fibroid embolisation, TEVAR etc
Current appointment:
He currently the Director of Interventional & Endovascular Radiology and Specialised Imaging for a large
private hospital with 37 sites in India (NH Group) and works part time as a Consultant Radiologist at
University Hospital of North Midlands at Stoke-On-Trent, UK.

Employment

  • University Hospital of North Staffordshire Consultant Radiologist
    2017 - Present
  • Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences Director
    2015 - Present
  • Heartlands Hospital
    2004 - 2012

Education

  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Fellowship
    2003 - 2004

Projects & Funding

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Publications (101)