Dr Michael Carey graduated Medicine from the University of Wollongong and has obtained post graduate master’s degrees from the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. He completed an Interventional Radiology fellowship at the John Hunter Hospital.

Dr Carey is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. He is also an active member of the Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia (IRSA), the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR).

Dr Carey in passionate about the role of Interventional Radiology in Oncology and endovascular treatments for painful conditions.

Procedures performed by Dr Carey include:
Vascular and dialysis access insertion:
• Portacath
• Permacath
• Central line
• Peritoneal dialysis

Interventional Oncology:
• TACE (Transarterial Chemoembolisation)
• Tumour ablation (microwave and cryoablation)
• CT and ultrasound guided biopsy

Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary:
• Emergency haemorrhage embolisation
• Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC), biliary stenting, cholangioscopy and biliary lithotripsy
• Cholecystostomy
• Radiologically inserted gastrostomy
• Balloon-occluded/plug-assisted/coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO/PARTO/CARTO)
• Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
• CT and ultrasound guided collection drainage

Urological:
• Percutaneous nephrostomy and ureteric stenting
• AML and pre-operative renal embolisation
• Prostate artery embolision
• Varicocele embolisation

Gynaecological:

• Ovarian vein embolisation
• Uterine fibroid embolisation

Vascular:
• Peripheral arterial thrombolysis/thrombectomy, plasty and stenting
• Central and peripheral venous thrombolysis/thrombectomy, plasty and stenting
• IVC filter insertion/retrieval