Steven W. Hetts, MD, FACR 

Steven Hetts, MD is Co-Chief of the Neuro Endovascular Surgery Service Line at and Chief of Interventional Neuroradiology at UCSF, where he provides endovascular surgical therapy for children and adults with stroke, cerebrovascular disease and tumors. Dr. Hetts is Co-Director of the UCSF Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Excellence through which he cares for patients with vascular malformations of the brain and other organs and participates in the CHORUS study. As Co-Director of the Interventional Radiology Research Laboratory, Dr. Hetts develops novel medical devices and techniques, including multi-organ ferumoxytol MRI for patients with HHT through the Department of Defense supported AVIATOR study and toxicity-reducing ChemoFilters developed with the support of the National Institutes of Health. An active member of the Academic Senate, Dr. Hetts served as faculty representative to the UC Regents Health Services Committee from 2018-2020 and Chair of the UCSF Division of the Academic Senate from 2023-2025. He also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Public Engagement. Dr. Hetts earned an MD from Harvard Medical School and an AB from Harvard College. He completed medical internship at Stanford and diagnostic radiology residency, diagnostic neuroradiology fellowship, and interventional neuroradiology fellowship at UCSF, where he joined the faculty in 2008. 

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