Dr. Leandro Cardarelli Leite
Assistant Professor – Department of Medical Imaging
London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital
Dr. Leite is a Vascular Interventional Radiologist who joined the Department of Medical Imaging as an Assistant Professor on August 21, 2020.
Professional Training:
- Medical degree from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011)
- Diagnostic Radiology Residency at Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2016)
- Interventional Radiology Fellowship at Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017)
- Interventional Radiology Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2018)
- Abdominal Imaging and GU Interventional Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2019)
- Combined Paediatric Interventional Radiology (BC Children’s Hospital) and Interventional Neuroradiology (VGH) Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2020)
Special Interests:
- Palliative treatments for children and adults with cancer including cryoablation, cementoplasty, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, neurolysis and selective blocks
- Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT aka TARE aka Y90) for liver cancer
- Treatment of vascular anomalies and vascular tumors in children and adults
- Prostatic artery embolization
- Complex endovascular treatments for limb salvage
- Research interests include developing augmented reality solutions to decrease radiation exposure to the operator
