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Jeffrey Pollak, MD

Robert I. White, Jr. Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
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Director, Yale Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Program

Director, Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellowship Program

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Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

PO Box 208042, Clinic Building CB 2-225

New Haven, CT 06520-8042

United States

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Robert I. White, Jr. Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Director, Yale Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Program; Director, Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellowship Program

Biography

Dr. Pollak went to medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and subsequently did his Diagnostic Radiology residency at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. His fellowship in Vascular & Interventional Radiology was at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then joined the Yale University School of Medicine Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging in the section of V&IR and served as the section chief and director of the fellowship program in this sub-specialty for over two decades. While active in all aspects of vascular & interventional radiology, his current major interests are embolotherapy (embolization), including for acquired and congenital vascular abnormalities and malformations (other than in the brain), fibroids, and malignancies, as well as other minimally invasive treatments for tumors, including local ablation. In addition, he is an expert in vascular procedures in the liver, such as intrahepatic portosystemic shunts and venous procedures, such as inferior vena cava filters.

Dr. Pollak is the current director of the multidisciplinary Yale Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Program, which was started as the first of its kind in the world in the early 1990s. As such, he has extensive experience in the evaluation and management of patients with this genetic disorder, with particular expertise in embolization of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations, which frequently occur in this population. Dr. Pollak is also the co-director of the Yale Pulmonary Embolism Response Team, a multidisciplinary group of physicians interested in the advancement of the management of patients with this condition, especially those with more severe manifestations.

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Education & Training

Fellow
University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (1989)
Resident
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (1988)
MD
Columbia University Coll of Physicians & Surgeons (1983)
BA
Columbia University (1979)

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Ablation Techniques; Arteriovenous Fistula; Arteriovenous Malformations; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic; Radiography, Interventional; Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic; Vascular Malformations

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Jeffrey Pollak's published research.

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2024

2023

2019

2018

Clinical Care

Overview

Jeffrey Pollak, MD, is a vascular and interventional radiologist who specializes in the minimally invasive treatment of blood vessel abnormalities (including occlusions and abnormally developed vessels) and of tumors.

While active in all aspects of vascular and interventional radiology, Dr. Pollak’s current major interests are embolotherapy (embolization) for acquired and congenital vascular abnormalities and malformations (other than in the brain), fibroids, and malignancies, as well as other minimally invasive treatments for tumors, such as local ablation, particularly in the liver and kidney.

“For smaller and more limited tumors, the preferred method is local ablation. The second method is the delivery of material through the liver artery supplying the tumor to injure and destroy it,” Dr. Pollak explains. “The injected material commonly consists of concentrated chemotherapy mixed with other material, usually special plastic beads, but also may consist of special radiation-emitting beads to create internal radiation therapy.”

Dr. Pollak, who says he mixes honesty with humor to reassure patients and make them feel comfortable, is an expert in vascular procedures in the liver, such as intrahepatic portosystemic shunts and venous procedures, including inferior vena cava filters and opening blocked veins.

Dr. Pollak is the director of the multidisciplinary Yale Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Program, which was started as the first of its kind in the world in the early 1990s. As such, he has extensive experience in the evaluation and management of patients with this genetic disorder, with particular expertise in embolization of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations, which frequently occur in this population.

Additionally, he is the co-director of the Yale Pulmonary Embolism Response Team, a group of physicians interested in the advancement of the management of patients with this condition, especially those with more severe manifestations.

Clinical Specialties

Radiology & Biomedical Imaging; Non-Invasive Vascular Imaging; Interventional Radiology; Pediatric Interventional Radiology

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Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

PO Box 208042, Clinic Building CB 2-225

New Haven, CT 06520-8042

United States

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