Gloria Salazar, MD / Venous Disease and Women\'s Health

Expert Publications

• Beneficial effects of hypnosis and adverse effects of empathic attention during percutaneous tumor treatment: when being nice does not suffice.
• Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for acute variceal hemorrhage.
• Evaluation and management of acute vascular trauma.
• Quality assurance in interventional radiology.
• Intravascular ultrasound-guided inferior vena cava filter placement using a single-puncture technique in 99 patients.
• The role of radical surgery in the management of acquired uterine arteriovenous malformation.
• Quality improvement guidelines for pediatric gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy tube placement.
• Developing a Patient-Centered Radiology Process Model.
• Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysms: Clinical Features and CT Findings.
• Pilot Study of a Patient-Centered Radiology Process Model.
• Mannequin-based Telesimulation: Increasing Access to Simulation-based Education.

Media Releases

Get to know Radiologist Dr. Gloria Salazar, who serves patients in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

An accomplished radiologist, Dr. Salazar is the Vice Chair of Diversity and Health Equity, and Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of North Carolina. 

Recruited from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 2021, her impressive resume includes a range of leadership positions at MGH spanning over 12 years, such as Outpatient IR Medical Director, Waltham Vein Center Medical Director, Fibroids Program Co-Director, Simulation and Patient Experience Officer, and Department of Radiology Quality and Safety Chair.

Before embarking on her professional journey, Dr. Salazar earned her medical degree and completed her residency in diagnostic radiology at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo in Brazil in 2001 and 2005, respectively. After relocating to the United States, she completed her fellowship in interventional radiology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2008.

Distinguished as a Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology (FSIR), and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe,  she has an extensive background in women’s health advocacy and has established herself as a subspecialty leader/expert and practitioner volunteer for underserved populations. Additionally, Dr. Salazar volunteered her services to non-English speaking COVID-19 patients during the 2020 pandemic surge in the Spanish Language Care Medical Group at MGH. Her commitment to outreach to underserved populations led her to become a faculty proctor and invited speaker at the Inaugural Society of Interventional Radiology Giveback Program in El Salvador in 2019.

Interventional Radiology refers to the field of medicine that uses endovascular and non-vascular techniques to treat patients.

Speaking several languages, Dr. Salazar is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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