2025 Charles T. Dotter Memorial Lecturer – Akhilesh Keshav Sista, MD, FAHA, FSIR

Akhilesh Keshav Sista, MD, FAHA, FSIR

Weil Cornell Medical College
New York, New York

Akhilesh K. Sista, MD FSIR FAHA, is a Professor of Radiology (Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology) at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, NY. Dr. Sista's clinical and research expertise lies in the medical and endovascular treatment of venous thromboembolic disease (VTE). He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, and has given more than 250 lectures at national and international conferences.

He served as the national Principal Investigator of the PE-TRACT trial of catheter-directed therapy for PE, funded by the National Institutes of Health from 2022-25. He chaired the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation’s Research Consensus Panel on Submassive Pulmonary Embolism in December 2015. He was the National Principal Investigator for Penumbra, Inc.’s multicenter (22 sites) prospective trial (N=119) of the Indigo CAT-8 thromboaspiration device for submassive PE (EXTRACT-PE). He was the co-National PI for the multicenter RESCUE study (N=120) of the Bashir Endovascular Catheter for Submassive PE. He co-chaired the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statement on Interventional Therapy for Pulmonary Embolism.

He has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Interventional Radiology and is currently chair of the AHA’s Vascular Imaging and Interventions subcommittee. He was awarded the 2018 Mark A. Creager prize for research excellence by the Society of Vascular Medicine and has been recognized as a Fellow of both the Society of Interventional Radiology (FSIR) and the American Heart Association (FAHA).