William Kuo, MD, FSIR, FSVM, FACR, FCIRSE

Dr William T Kuo is Professor of Radiology – Interventional Radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was born in St. Louis, MO and attended high school in Southeast Missouri where he graduated valedictorian. He attended college at Duke University where he received a BS degree with honors. He earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine with distinction in radiology, winning the Meschan Award for radiology excellence. His surgical internship was accomplished at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA. Dr Kuo then trained in a combined interventional and diagnostic radiology residency program at the University of Rochester Medical Center where he served as Chief Resident. He was among the first in the nation to complete the Clinical Pathway in Interventional Radiology – ABR prototype for the current Integrated IR-DR Residency. Following this, Dr Kuo completed an interventional radiology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. Flooing this, Dr Kuo was recruited to become a faculty member in the Stanford Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Dr Kuo is a recognized expert on advanced IVC filter retrieval, venous interventions, thrombolysis and catheter-directed therapy (CDT) for acute pulmonary embolism (PE). At Stanford, Dr Kuo invented excimer laser-assisted IVC filter retrieval, and he was the first to perform this procedure in humans