About the Doctor
Dr. David Shelley, M.D.
David Shelley, M.D. is board-certified in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. He attended medical school at the Chicago Medical School. He completed his residency at the University of Cincinnati and a fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University of Colorado.
He is a member of the American College of Radiology, the American College of Phlebology, the Society of Interventional Radiology, the Western Angiographic and Interventional Society, and the American Roentgen Ray Society (the oldest radiology society in the United States).
What is an Interventional Radiologist?
Interventional radiologists are board-certified physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. They use X-rays, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, usually in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease non-surgically. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine.
Today many conditions that once required surgery can be treated nonsurgically by interventional radiologists. Interventional radiology treatments offer less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open surgery.
