
Dr. Rotimi Johnson
Specialization: Vascular and Interventional Radiologist, Interventional Oncology and Endovascular Surgery.
Mail: contact@rjmedicalgroup.com
Phone: +1 (630) 755 8515
Dr. Rotimi Johnson, MD
I listen to what my patients have to say and review their charts and give them all options for treatment. I collaborate with other medical and surgical experts to ensure they get the best care.
Procedures
Dr Johnson is an expert who performs a wide range of procedures including but not limited to the following:
- Angiography
- Angioplasty and Stenting
- Aortic Aneurysms
- Biliary Drainage and Stenting
- Carotid Artery Stenting
- Central Venous Access
- Colonic Stenting
- Dialysis Line Insertion
- Fibroids
- Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage
- Gastrostomy
- Hepatic Malignancies
- Interventional Pain
- Kidney Tumour Ablation
- Treatments for Vascular Disease
- Nephrostomy
- Oesophageal Stents
- Pelvic Venous Congestion Syndrome
- Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy
- Transhepatic Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts
- Prostate Artery Embolisation PAE
- Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations
- Ureteric Stenting
- Varicoceles
- Varicose Veins
- Vascular Malformations
- Vertebral Compression Fractures
- Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
Board Certification
- Vascular and Interventional Radiology (American Board of Radiology)
- Diagnostic Radiology (American Board of Radiology)
Professional Memberships
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Society of Interventional Radiology
- Radiological Society of North America
- American College of Phlebology
Licensure
- State of Missouri, Medicine and Surgery
- State of New York, Medicine and Surgery
- State of Illinois, Medicine and Surgery
- State of Ohio, Medicine and Surgery
- State of Indiana, Medicine and Surgery
- State of Arkansas, Medicine and Surgery
- State of Pennsylvania, Medicine and Surgery
- Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria
Fellowship Training
New York Presbytarian Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center
New York, NY — Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY — Interventional Oncology
Residency Training
Stroger Hospital, Cook County Hospital
Chicago, IL — Diagnostic Radiology
Michael Reece Hospital
Chicago, IL — Prelim Internal Medicine
Education
Spartan Health Sciences University, School of Medicine — Doctor of Medicine
University of Houston, College of Pharmacy – Bachelor of Pharmacy
Employment History
Saint Louis University Hospital,
St Louis, MO — Vascular and Interventional Radiologist
Adjunct and Assistant Professor of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Mercy Health Hospital,
Rockford, IL — Vascular and Interventional Radiologist
Boone Hospital Center,
Columbia, MO – Vascular and Interventional Radiologist
Milestones of IR
You may be surprised to learn of the advancements in medicine that have been primarily down to IR innovation. You may not even have known that IR had been involved.
Here are a few milestones of IR
- 1964 Angioplasty
- 1966 Embolisation of spinal tumour
- 1967 Judkins technique for coronary angiography
- 1969 Prototype catheter delivered stent
- 1970s Embolisation coils
- 1972 Embolisation of bleeding gut
- 1973 Embolisation of pelvic bleeding secondary to trauma
- 1974 Selective arterial thrombolysis
- 1977 Embolisation of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations
- 1978 Embolisation of varicoceles
- 1980s Biliary stents
- 1982 Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS)
- 1983 development of balloon expandable stents
- 1990s Treatment of bone and kidney tumours by embolisation
- 1990 Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumours
- 1991 Endovascular stent grafts to treat aortic aneurysms
- 1995 Uterine artery embolisation to treat fibroids (UAE)
- 1999 Endovascular laser therapy (EVLT) to treat varicose veins.
This leaflet has been prepared by the British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR) and the Clinical Radiology Patients’ Liaison Group (CRPLG) of The Royal College of Radiologists.