Chapters Transcript Video Provider Profile - John C. Agola, MD John C. Agola, MD, discusses his areas of focus, his approach to patient care, and how the field of interventional radiology is evolving. Thank you. Hi, I'm John Angola, I'm with medical center radiologists. I'm a radiologist here on staff since 1994. I'm interventional neuro radiologist. Not a lot of people know what that is, but it's a branch of interventional radiology merged with neuro radiology and in particular what it addresses. Excuse me, our vascular issues of the brain and the spinal cord. The interventional neuro radiology is not super well represented at this time, but when I started, it was in its infancy. So there were very few places across the country that had that offering medical center. Radiologists actually had Really strong prophesy that this would become an important part of medicine and actively recruited me as early as 1994, when a lot of people weren't even thinking that that was a viable specialty. So I get a lot of credit to Medical center radiologists for their foresight in uh inviting me to come down and develop a practice, developing a practice here was important because there was no Available resource for the nearly two million people of southeast Virginia. And even though there were not a lot of things to do in 1994, it rapidly developed into something that became really important. Patient care is the number one goal everything that we do, we do through the eyes of how the patient is affected from intake to recovery and discharge and beyond interventional neuro ideology is not simply an incident based interaction, but it's more of a long term care solution to people who have challenging problems that may not be taken care of by other means. So interventional neuro ideology, as it was, as it was Conceived in 1994, was a specialty of very unique opportunity. I felt becoming coming to this area would be important because centerist tertiary care hospital, the adjacent Children's care hospital, and we take care of both Children and adults would have been a really important place to develop this presence and have this resource available for the community. Well, I'm proud to say that in the short career that I have so far maybe 26 or 27 years that our specialty has revolutionized the care of patients, especially with vascular problems of the brain and spinal cord. Some examples might be stroke care where Even as recently as five or 10 years ago there was no concept of using vascular techniques to treat stroke. And now that's a standard of care. Other other opportunities for standard care come in. Endovascular repair of difficult problems such as brain aneurysms, part of the brain aneurysm which our weaknesses on blood vessels that could lead to life threatening leak or rupture brain A VMS, which are another sort of pathology of the vascular system that require a lot of challenging multi modality therapy. But all these techniques that we have been developing over the last 25 years have changed the face of how we take care of these patients and what it means to become part of the care team for these complicated problems great. Published April 29, 2021 Created by Related Presenters John Agola, M.D. Interventional Neuroradiologist View full profile
