The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences are thrilled to welcome Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR as the newly appointed Section Chief of Interventional Radiology effective November 1, 2015. A strong clinician and teacher, Banovac comes to us from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.
Dr. Banovac received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and attended medical school at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He completed the Holman Research Pathway Radiology Residency at Georgetown University. During that same time he completed the National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. He did his fellowship training in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Stanford University and joined the faculty at Georgetown University in 2004 as Associate Professor and was appointed Chief of Interventional and Vascular Radiology in 2008.
Dr. Banovac’s research interests include augmented instrument navigation and precision delivery of instruments into imaging targets. He pursues these research interests at the National Institutes of Health where he is a collaborator at the NIH Center for Interventional Oncology. In 2009 he was awarded the Gary Becker Young Investigator Award by the Society of Interventional Radiology.
Dr. Banovac has served on numerous local and national committees. After Serving as the Research Policy Division Chair for the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation, he become the vice chair of the SIR Foundation and chair elect for the same.
Fil is married to Connie and has three daughters who run his life. He enjoys cycling and tennis and is an avid college basketball fan. Go 'Dores!
