Steven W. Hetts, MD, FACR Professor in Residence of Radiology, Biomedical Imaging, and Neurological Surgery University of California, San Francisco

Steven Hetts, MD is Co-Chief of the Neuro Endovascular Surgery Service Line at UCSF and Chief of Interventional Neuroradiology at the UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals, where he provides cutting-edge, minimally invasive endovascular surgical therapy for children and adults with stroke, cerebrovascular disease and tumors. Dr. Hetts is also Co-Director of the UCSF Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Excellence where he cares for patients with vascular malformations of the brain and other organs. In 2017, Dr. Hetts was honored with an Exceptional Physician Award from UCSF Health for his clinical work. As Co-Director of the NIH-funded Interventional Radiology Research Laboratory, Dr. Hetts develops novel medical devices and techniques for the treatment of stroke, tumors, vascular malformations, and other conditions accessible through the blood vessels. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has lectured on interventional neuroradiology clinical practice and research on six continents, and has been named a Distinguished Investigator by the national Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. In 2017, Dr. Hetts received an “I Am A UC Entrepreneur” award for ChemoFilter, a device to reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy that was developed in the UCSF Interventional Radiology Research Lab. An active member of the UCSF and UC Systemwide Academic Senate, Dr. Hetts served as the faculty representative to the UC Regents Health Services Committee from 2018-2020. He founded and chairs the UC Stroke Consortium, a group dedicated to improving collaborative stroke care and research across all six UC medical schools and their affiliated health systems throughout the state of California. Dr. Hetts earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. He completed a medical internship at Stanford and diagnostic radiology residency, diagnostic neuroradiology fellowship, and interventional neuroradiology fellowship at UCSF, where he joined the faculty in 2008.