Klemens H Barth MD

Summary

• Dr. Klemens Barth is an interventional radiologist based in Washington, DC. He completed his radiology-radiation oncology residency at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH, after graduating 1966 from Univ Freiburg- Fac Med. Following Board certification in Radiology by the ABR June 1973, he returned to his native Germany as instructor in radiology and radiological interventions at the University of Freiburg Hospitals. He returned to the US as Asst. Prof of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD in January 1975 with practice devoted to angiography and the emerging field of catheter-based interventions. While in Freiburg he started experimental work on mesenteric ischemia, which he continued at JHH resulting in establishment of a radionuclide test for bowel infarction. He was Interim Director of Radiology Research in 1977 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1978, a title he maintained part time after leaving JHH until June 2016. Dr. Barth joined the Radiology Faculty at Georgetown University Hospital in February 1982 as Professor of Radiology, a title he held until after his retirement and is now an Emeritus Professor. He was the Director of Interventional Radiology until February 1999, when he became Chief of Radiology and Radiation Oncology at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, while maintaining a part-time affiliation with Georgetown Medstar and with George Washington University Hospital Interventional Radiology. Under his leadership at the VA Med. Ctr. the combined department was transformed into a state-of-the-art equipped service, expanding the range of services provided to veterans and enhanced by installing a mostly fellowship trained professional staff.
  Dr. Barth also served for 11 years as the Editor of "Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology" a journal adopted by the Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology Society of Europe, where he is a Distinguished Fellow.