James B. Spies

Dr. Spies is the Current President of the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Chair and Chief of Service at the Department of Radiology, Georgetown University Hospital. He is one of the most experienced researchers in the field of uterine artery embolization. He has been an active researcher in the field since 1997 and has over 45 peer-reviewed publications of studies from this procedure. His group has defined a number of parameters associated with uterine embolization, including ovarian function after fibroid infarction as a marker of success, the relative success of embolic materials, hypercoagulability after treatment, and the long-term outcome after treatment. He has been invited to present over 250 lectures on uterine fibroid embolization and is recognized as a leader in the field. He obtained his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine and his MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.