Jeanne LaBerge is American

interventional radiologist Interventional radiology (IR) is a medical specialty that performs various minimally-invasive procedures using medical imaging guidance, such as x-ray fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasound. IR performs bo ...

known for her work establishing the field of interventional radiology as a primary specialty in medicine. She was named a fellow of the Society of CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology in 1992.

Education and career

LaBerge received her M.S. from Stanford University in 1976. She then obtained her medical degree from the

University of Utah School of Medicine The University of Utah School of Medicine is located on the upper campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in 1905 and is currently the only MD-granting medical school in the state of Utah. History The school began ...

in 1980. She completed her diagnostic radiology residency at the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It con ...

in 1984 and did a fellowship in angiography and interventional radiology at University of California, San Francisco which she completed in 1985. LaBerge served as the head of Interventional Radiology at

Tripler Army Medical Center Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) is a major United States Department of Defense medical facility administered by the United States Army in the state of Hawaii. It is the tertiary care hospital in the Pacific Rim, serving local active and retire ...

in Honolulu, HI from 1985 to 1989 and concurrently served as assistant clinical professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu from 1986 to 1989. She then moved to the University of California, San Francisco where she was promoted to professor in 2000. In 2019, LaBerge became an emeritus professor. She helped pioneer the designation of interventional radiology as a primary specialty in 2012 which altered the certification and training of interventional radiologists. She also led the effort to develop the new residency in interventional radiology within the

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is the body responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs (i.e., internships, residencies, and fellowships, a.k.a. subspecialty programs) for physicians in the ...

in 2012. In research, LaBerge is most known for her work on portal hypertension and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS). Her book on ''Interventional radiology essentials'' was reviewed by other publications.

Selected publications

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Awards

She was selected as the fellow of the year through the Society of CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology in 1992. She delivered the Society of Interventional Radiology's Charles Dotter Award in 2011, and in 2017 she received the Gold Medal from the Society for Interventional Radiology.

References

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