Participating Sites | Interventional Radiology Residency

MaineHealth Maine Medical Center (MHMMC), which is the primary teaching site for the IR Residency Program, is the largest tertiary care hospital in northern New England, serving all of Maine and part of New Hampshire.  It has Maine’s only American College of Surgery-verified Level I Trauma Center, and is ranked the #1 hospital in Maine by U.S. News & World Report.  MHMMC is also home to the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital, which is Maine's only full-service children's hospital.  The MHMMC Portland campus underwent its largest modernization and replacement project in history from 2018-2024.  The nearly $600 million project expanded its bed license from 637 to 700, which further expanded to 929 beds after a merger with Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford and Sanford in 2024.  MHMMC is the flagship hospital of MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare organization.  MaineHealth consists of 13 local hospital and other health facilities that touch central, southern, and western Maine and eastern New Hampshire.  MHMMC, which is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine, is also Maine’s only academic medical center, supporting over 310 residents and fellows in 15 residency programs, 15 fellowship programs, and 3 rural tracks, all approved by the ACGME.  The MHMMC Diagnostic Radiology (DR) and IR programs are the only radiology residencies in the state of Maine.  Both programs are categorical, containing five DR and one IR residents per year.  There is also one ESIR slot per year.  The MHMMC Department of Radiology is composed of over 40 radiologists, nearly all fellowship-trained, including 9 interventional radiologists.  There are also four dedicated IR advanced practice providers.

St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center is a mid-sized community hospital with 233 beds located approximately 50 minutes away from Portland in Lewiston, ME.  The St. Mary’s Dept. of Radiology is staffed by one of the MHMMC IR Residency Program faculty members in addition to one or two of the MHMMC DR Residency Program faculty members who rotate daily among all IR residency training sites.  There are also a dedicated nurse practitioner and patient navigator.  Approximately half of the day is spent in clinic performing new outpatient consultations and follow-up visits.  A component of this clinic – the Center for Vascular Care – was founded and has been staffed by IR since 2008 in order to diagnose and treat venous and arterial disease with procedures such as endovenous ablation, sclerotherapy, phlebectomy, and lower extremity arterial endovascular revascularization.  The other half of the day is spent performing procedures on inpatients and outpatients and new inpatient consultations and interpreting radiologic studies.  There is a particularly high volume of lower extremity arterial and venous procedures because of a robust relationship between IR and the St. Mary's Center for Hyperbaric & Wound Care.  There are approximately 10 procedures/patient encounters daily.

During their PGY-3 year, MHMMC IR and ESIR residents spend three months at the BCH Dept. of Radiology, which has the nation's oldest and largest group of pediatric imaging specialists composed of board-certified pediatric radiologists, neuroradiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and interventional radiologists – all with academic appointments at Harvard Medical School.  BCH is the only children's hospital to have been ranked #1 or #2 by U.S. News & World Report every year since the publication began ranking children's hospitals in 2011.  Along with other DR and IR residents from throughout New England, MHMMC IR and ESIR residents learn to interpret a large volume of a full range of imaging studies using the latest equipment and techniques specifically designed or adapted for pediatric use.  During their PGY-6 year, IR residents spend an additional two months at the BCH Division of Pediatric Interventional Radiology, where more than 6,000 minimally invasive, image-guided procedures are performed every year to diagnose and treat diseases in children.  Procedures include biopsies; placing shunts, feeding and drainage tubes, and peripherally inserted central catheters; and treating vascular malformations, blood clots, and kidney or liver abnormalities.  MHMMC maintains an apartment in Boston for the DR and IR residents to stay at during their BCH rotations.

In April 2025, our IR clinic moved to RAYUS Vascular Care, an Office-Based Lab (OBL) that is located about 15 minutes from MHMMC Portland at the Rock Row Health Campus in Westbrook.  The Rock Row Health Campus is the medical anchor of the 110-acre, $600 Million mixed-use development, “Rock Row”, which features live, work, and play amenities, all in one open-air community in Maine’s largest metropolitan area. This integrative care campus, which opened on February 17, 2025, features two brand-new buildings – a 200,000 SF medical building and a 20,000 SF health services building – complete with attached complimentary parking garage.  At this contemporary, state-of-the-art care center, clinical research and a comprehensive approach to healthcare merge.  The facility is anchored by the Dempsey Center, New England Cancer Specialists (a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Affiliate Member), Plastic + Hand Surgical Associates, RAYUS Radiology, and Saco Bay Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy.  While RAYUS Radiology owns and operates the vascular center, this private clinic is staffed by one of the MHMMC IR Residency Program faculty members who rotate daily among all IR residency training sites.  The clinic consists of two patient exam rooms, a diagnostic ultrasound room, and a procedure room with fluoroscopy C-arm and sedation capabilities. The facility is fully staffed by IR technologists, ultrasonographers, nurses, and medical assistants.  Patient encounters consist of new consults; follow-up visits; and procedures such as embolization to treat pelvic congestion syndrome, symptomatic uterine fibroids, varicocele, and osteoarthritis-related knee pain; endovascular revascularization to treat claudication and critical limb ischemia; ablation, sclerotherapy, and phlebectomy to treat varicose veins; and various image-guided injection procedures and biopsies. There is also a high volume of diagnostic, therapeutic, and palliative interventional oncology procedures because of proximity to the region’s largest cancer-specific practice, New England Cancer Specialists, which is located in the same building.  MHMMC IR and ESIR residents spend 1 day per week at this clinic during all IR rotations from PGY 2-6, as well as a dedicated month each year from PGY 5-6.