:: Richard R. Saxon, MD - North County Radiology Medical Group
Richard R. Saxon, MD is a Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology and is an Internationally recognized expert in the field. Dr Saxon is the Co-founder and Director of Research at the San Diego Cardiac and Vascular Institute (SDCVI) as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology at UCSD who has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific articles and book chapters and has been an invited lecturer or scientific presenter over 100 times throughout the United States and Internationally. His research has included the design and development of endovascular stent-grafts for both arterial applications and for the TIPS procedure. In addition to a busy clinical practice, Dr Saxon continues to teach and do clinical research and is a principal or co-investigator on multiple on-going research trials at the SDCVI. He is currently concentrating his research efforts on the endovascular treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease.
Dr Saxon completed his undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1982, receiving a certificate of distinction as one of the top10 graduates that year. He earned his medical degree form the University of California at Los Angeles (elected alpha omega alpha) and completed a Radiology Residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Saxon completed his fellowship at the Dotter Institute of Interventional Therapy at Oregon Health Sciences University. He stayed there as an Assistant Professor of Interventional Radiology until 1997. In 1997, Dr Saxon moved to private practice in San Diego to join North County Radiology Medical Group. Together with his partners Drs Ponec and Gooding, he has helped to build one of the busiest interventional practices on the west coast.
