Kareem Elfatairy

Kareem Elfatairy is an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Abdominal Imaging Division. His clinical expertise includes prostate MRI, MRI-guided interventions, image-guided biopsy, and drainage.

Education:

• Medical degree and radiology residency from Suez Canal University, Egypt
• Radiology residency at Yale New Haven Health-Bridgeport Hospital, Connecticut
• Abdominal Imaging and Interventions fellowship at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School, Boston

Research interests: Prostate MRI and MRI-guided interventions, focusing on optimizing cancer detection, improving biopsy accuracy, and advancing image-guided therapies. His work spans liver tumor ablation, thyroid nodule assessment, and vascular interventions, with publications in Radiology, Radiology: Imaging Cancer, and Clinical Imaging.

Scientific awards:

• Editor’s recognition award for reviewing with distinction by Radiology: Imaging Cancer (2021, 2022)

Professional affiliations:

• Society of Advanced Body Imaging
• Radiological Society of North America
• Society of Interventional Radiology

Peer-reviewer for journals including Radiology: Imaging Cancer, Abdominal Radiology, and British Journal for Radiology.