Alexander Lam, MD
Assistant Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Alexander Lam, MD earned his medical degree at UC Davis School of Medicine in 2013, followed by a one-year internship in the Department of Internal Medicine at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. His four-year Diagnostic Radiology Residency was completed in 2018 at UC Irvine School of Medicine in Orange, CA, where he served as chief resident from 2017-2018.

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Dr. Lam completed a one-year fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the Department of Radiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA in 2019. Dr. Lam is the recipient of several awards, including the Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award, Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Radiology Resident Research Grant, and the American College of Radiology – Association of University Radiologists Research Scholar Award. Dr. Lam joined UCSF Radiology and Biomedical Imaging's Interventional Radiology section as an assistant clinical professor in 2019.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Vascular Interventional Radiology University of Virginia 2019
• Residency Diagnostic Radiology UC Irvine, School of Medicine 2018
• Internship California Pacific Medical Center 2014
• M.D. Medicine UC Davis 2013

Publications (6)

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HemoperitoneumAtherectomyCarcinoma, HepatocellularPeripheral Arterial DiseaseCoated Materials, BiocompatibleYttrium RadioisotopesArteriovenous FistulaIschemiaAngioplasty, BalloonBile Duct NeoplasmsChemoradiotherapy, AdjuvantBile Ducts, IntrahepaticCholangiocarcinomaConstriction, PathologicLiver Neoplasms

• Cost-Effectiveness of Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty versus Plain Old Balloon Angioplasty for Arteriovenous Fistula Stenosis.
  Cardiovascular and interventional radiology 2023 Zhou AL, Wu X, Youm J, Heller MB, Lam A
• Socioeconomic and Survival Analysis of Radioembolization in Patients with Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: A Propensity Score-Adjusted Study.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2023 Wu X, Heller M, Lokken RP, Fidelman N, Lam A
• Geniculate Artery Embolization: Role in Knee Hemarthrosis and Osteoarthritis.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2021 Heller DB, Beggin AE, Lam AH, Kohi MP, Heller MB
• Visceral Aneurysm Formation and Intraabdominal Hemorrhage Associated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2020 Lee AY, Lam A, Hicks RM, Isikbay M, Heller MB, Sugi MD, Behr S, Kohi MP
• Adjuvant radiation followed by chemotherapy is associated with improved overall survival in endometrial cancer.
  Gynecologic oncology 2020 Sinha S, Lazar A, Lam A, Anderson EM, Chen LM, Hsu IJ, Yoshida EJ
• Atherectomy with balloon angioplasty compared to balloon angioplasty alone for the treatment of chronic limb threatening ischemia: A national surgical quality improvement program database analysis.
  Vascular 2020 Lam A, Schwertner A, Katrivesis J, Fernando D, Nelson K, Abi-Jaoudeh N