Research Staff

Dusan Pavcnik, M.D., PhD

E-mail: pavcnikd@ohsu.edu Phone Number: (503) 494-3669

A research professor of interventional radiology at the Institute since 1995, Dr. Dusan Pavcnik was awarded the Josef Rösch Chair of Interventional Radiology Research in January 2000. He has contributed to a wide variety of important interventional procedures and devices. His current work involves developing and testing the Square stent based bioprosthetic valve for venous and cardiac applications, Square stent based occluder and biomaterial covered endografts. He also performs research on the percutaneous methods for vein ablation.

Born in Slovenia, Pavcnik received his medical degree in 1973 from the University of Ljubljana. After finishing a residency in radiology in 1980, Pavcnik qualified as a roentgenology specialist. He served as the chief radiologist in the Department of Roentgenology at the General Hospital Nova Gorica until 1982, when he passed his ECFMG examination and was elected president of the Slovenian Association of Radiology. He was then appointed assistant professor of radiology to the Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine in 1983.

In 1985, Pavcnik completed a fellowship with the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical Center, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. In addition, he was a recipient of the Gianturco Research Fellowship in 1990-1991.

Pavcnik has been an active member of the interventional community, serving as a lexicographer for the Slovenian Medical Dictionary and editor of the journal Radiologia Iugóslavica (1983-1991). Since 1991 he has been a reviewer for the Journal of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and the Journal of Radiology and Oncology, and since 1999 for the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. In 1988, he received his Ph.D. and was named a professor of radiology at the Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine in 1993. In 1992, Pavcnik became a fellow of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe and the Society of Interventional Radiology in 2001.

In his spare time, Pavcnik enjoys spending time with his wife, two daughters, their husbands and his grandchildren. He also enjoys running, hiking and mushroom hunting.