MARIO JACK VELA M.D.

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Austin, TX 78723

EXPERIENCE

Board Certified in Diagnostic Radiology, September 2022 Advanced Pain Care—Round Rock, TX—Chief Radiologist March 2023-December 2023

• Chief Radiologist for busy multidisciplinary team of specialists including interventions pain specialists, orthopedics surgeons, neurosurgeons and rheumatology physicians in and around the greater Austin area.

Doctors Hospital Laredo, Texas—Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist, April 2021-February 2023

Experience working in a busy level 3 trauma center reading X-ray, US, CT/CTA, Nuclear medicine, MRI/MRA, Fluoroscopy, and PET/CT with experience performing mainly body with many vascular IR procedures such as all CT/US-guided biopsies & drains, emergent thoracostomy, diagnostic/ therapeutic thoracentesis & paracentesis, arterial/venous access, PICC lines, tunneled chemoports, temporary and tunneled hemodialysis catheters, venograms, CT-guided myelograms, CT-guided and bedside lumbar punctures, CT-guided intrathecal chemotherapy infusion, emergent nephrostomy tubes, arthrograms, diagnostic arthrocentesis, therapeutic joint injections, US-guided thyroid FNAs & biopsies, stereotactic & US-guided breast biopsies, cystostomy tubes, emergent cholecystostomies, pleural & peritoneal ASPIRA drainage catheters and bone marrow biopsies/aspiration. Shadowing at Wound Care Center in Laredo— Wound Care Solution and Hyperbaric Center in Laredo, TX July 2020 - April 2021

• Observed wound care surgical debridements, wound dressing changes, application of Stravix skin grafts, and monitoring hyperbaric dives.

UT Health Science Center At San Antonio — Internal Medicine Internship, July 2015-July 2016 & Diagnostic Radiology Residency, July 2016-April 2020

• Experience reading all imaging modalities including X-ray, CT, US, MRI and Fluoroscopy in a busy level-1 trauma center.

• Experience performing 1000+ Vascular and Body Interventional Radiology procedures with nearly one year of interventional radiology rotation experience. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts- Double Major Psychology/ Spanish Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN May 2009

Doctor of Allopathic Medicine

San Juan Bautista School of Medicine - Caguas, PR May 2015 LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

• English

• Spanish

LEADERSHIP

• Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital Liver/Tumor Board 2019-2020

• UT Health Radiology Residency Social Chair 2018-2019

• UT Health Pancreatic Tumor Board 2018

• UT Health Liver Transplant Selection Committee 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

• Doctors Hospital of Laredo

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:

Portal and hepatic vein thrombosis after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: Incidence in follow-up imaging and clinical implications

International Journal of Gastrointestinal Intervention 2022-01-31 Journal article

Partha Mandal; Barrett P. O'Donnell; Eric Reuben Smith; Osamah Al-Bayati; Adam Khalil; Serena Jen; Mario Vela; Jorge Lopera

Poster Presentation: Passport Poster Day Basic & Clinical Research, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety. April 10, 2018 "Comparing Rates of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients Receiving 8 mm vs 10 mm TIPS stents”

Accepted RSNA Abstract Submission: 2020

"Portal and Hepatic Vein Thrombosis After TIPS: Incidence in Follow-Up Imaging and Clinical Implications “

Accepted RSNA Abstract Submission: 2020

"Cross Sectional and Angiographic Findings in Various Porto-systemic Shunts" PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Board of Radiology

• American College of Radiology