Vladimir Sheynzon, MD, MBA

I am an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an Associate Director of HHT Center of Excellence at Columbia/New York Presbyterian Hospital. After completing medical school at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2003, I completed one year of internal medicine residency at Long Island Jewish Medicial Center in New Hyde Park, NY and a residency in diagnostic radiology at New Jersey Medical School/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, NJ. I completed a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology at The Mount Sinai Hospital/Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. I subsequently joined the Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook Health Sciences Center as Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology. I later joined the faculty in the Department of Radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in 2009. My career as an Assistant Professor of Radiology has been hallmarked by several committee appointments, teaching leadership, innovative projects, recent appointment to administrative leadership role, and Board certification in Diagnostic Radiology with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Interventional Radiology, In order to be a more effective leader, I in May 2019 successfully completed an elite MBA program at Columbia Business School. Major leadership role: I serve as the Associate Director of the NYP/Columbia HHT Center of Excellence. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia is an autosomal dominant disease that affects 1/5000 people and is characterized by nosebleeds and abnormal blood vessels in the brain, lungs, liver, and bowel. The Columbia center is the first in New York State. Teaching Leadership: I have served as a designated Residency Program educator for Interventional Radiology for 8 years. In this role my responsibilities included Interventional Radiology residency curriculum development, assignment and administration of weekly resident didactic lectures, resident performance evaluations while on IR rotation, coordination of the resident research projects related to IR, administration of the IR portion of the Radiology residency training including compliance and adherence to the goals and objectives of the training program. I am also heavily involved in the education portion of the fellowship training. I am involved in the weekly lectures to Columbia, Cornell and Memorial Sloan Kettering Fellows, daily teaching and supervision of the fellows’ research projects. Recent Projects: Developed Humanitarian Device Exemption Use Protocol for Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Thera Sphere Yttrium 90 (Y90) microspheres. This HDE protocol was successfully submitted and approved by the Columbia IRB. IVC Filter Registry Committee. Jointly with the committee members from Vascular Surgery and Cardiology developed clinical guidelines for retrieval of the Inferior Vena Cava filters. The guidelines were adopted by the New York Presbyterian Hospital as a standard of care. As an actively practicing clinician, I regularly care for many very complicated oncologic, transplant, hemodialysis and pediatric patients. I am responsible for performing very complex IR procedures at the Medical Center, The Children’s Hospital of New York, as well as at our smaller practice at Lawrence Hospital and 2 outpatient facilities. I treat each of my patients with special attention and care. I strive to be humble in my practice and I try learn from every patient interaction. It is very rewarding to see someone be healed and to be an integral part of the healing team.