Dr John Vrazas

Qualifications and Training

• MB, BS University of Melbourne
• Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
• Member of the Society of Interventional Radiology, USA
• Member and past president of the Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia
• Fellow and Clinical Instructor in Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Alexandria Hospital, Virginia, USA and George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
• Fellow and Clinical Instructor in Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami, USA
• European Board of Interventional Radiology
• Fellow of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe

Current Positions

• Private consulting at Fitzroy and Bendigo
• Consultant Interventional Radiologist at St Vincents Private Hospital, St Vincents Private Campus
• Senior Paediatric Interventional and Neurointerventional Radiologist, Royal Children’s Hospital
• Honorary Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• Honorary Senior Lecturer and Professorial Associate, Department of Radiology, University of Melbourne
• Senior Interventional Radiologist, Western Hospital, Footscray
• Examiner, European Board of Interventional Radiology
• Board member, Council of Procedural Specialists

Key Professional Interests and Achievements

Dr John Vrazas has played a leading role in the pioneering development of many minimally invasive surgical image guided procedures across a range of medical and surgical specialties in adults and children. Some noteworthy examples include:

• The clinical evaluation and management of patients requiring percutaneous interventions
• Investigation and treatment of deep venous thrombosis with venous thrombolysis and stenting
• Pioneering colorectal and oesophageal stenting procedures for cancer of colon and oesophagus
• Pioneering and refining techniques in central venous access including techniques for hemodialysis
• Investigating and refining renovascular stenting procedures for renal artery stenosis and occlusion
• Pioneering interventional procedures in children; Dr Vrazas performed the first TIPS in a child in the Southern Hemisphere
• Developing uterine artery embolisation for women with fibroids and arteriovenous malformations
• Establishing intracranial stenting and coiling of cerebral aneurysms at St Vincents Hospital
• Developing and refining the technique of carotid stenting with cerebral protection procedures for atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis
• Transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunting (TIPS) procedures for patients with portal hypertension and intractable ascites
• Investigating and developing radiofrequency ablation procedures for liver cancers, bone osteoid osteomas and small renal cancers
• Embolisation procedures for control of haemorrhage
• Sclerotherapy and Laser ablative techniques for varicose veins and vascular malformations
• Hepatobiliary interventions
• Offering an unparalleled array of interventional procedures in all parts of the body