Jason Salsamendi, M.D.

(877) 460-4673
Jason Salsamendi, M.D.
Interventional Radiologist
Other Languages Spoken
Spanish
Clinical Expertise

Treatment of Vascular Disorders: Arterial Disorders, Venous Disorders, Vascular Malformations/Anomalies, and Venous Sampling.

Image-Guided Cancer Therapies: Liver, Lung, Kidneys, Bone, Adrenal, Pancreas, and Soft Tissue Cancers

Ablative Therapies: Microwave, Radiofrequency ablation, Cryoablation, and Irreversible electroporation

Men’s Health: Benign Prostate Disorders/PAE, Varicocele Treatment, and Varicose Veins

Women’s Health: Uterine Fibroids, Pelvic Venous Congestion, and Varicose Veins

Interventional Pain Management: Image guided regional nerve blocks as well as chemical and cryoneurolysis.

Pediatric image guided interventions

Vascular access including management of AV fistulas/grafts.

Venous thromboembolic disease: therapies for pulmonary embolism, DVT, and vascular reconstruction,

Biliary Interventions

Portal Venous interventions: TIPSs and BRTO/CARTO as well as portal venous reconstruction and Islet cell portal venous infusion.

Medical education including procedure simulation training

 

Appointments
Clinical Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Lead Interventional Radiologist, City of Hope Orange County
For Jason Salsamendi, M.D., patient care is a partnership where his role is to help people make informed decisions that best meet their needs. He followed his passion into interventional radiology in the field’s early days, when he was in medical school, after seeing the way doctors could seamlessly and artfully bring together leading-edge technology and established aspects of medical care.
 
Dr. Salsamendi is excited to offer patients at Lennar Foundation Cancer Center at City of Hope Orange County the best in leading-edge, gentler procedures such as ultrasound-guided biopsies, radioembolizations for tumors in the liver, kyphoplasty for spinal injuries and procedures for vascular malformation.
 
His medical training took place at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he pursued a combined, seven-year bachelor’s and M.D. curriculum. Dr. Salsamendi completed his residency in radiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was chief resident, then became a fellow in interventional radiology at New York University.
 
Dr. Salsamendi joined City of Hope from Kaiser Permanente Riverside in California. Before that, he was on the faculty at the University of Miami, where he received the Department of Surgery Chief Resident Appreciation Teaching Award. His research addressing vascular disease has been funded by the JDRF and has yielded nearly 90 journal articles, book chapters, abstracts and case studies.
 
Fluent in Spanish, Dr. Salsamendi enjoys spending time away from the clinic gardening and going on adventures with his wife and two children — whether that means biking, skateboarding, camping, hiking, or playing tennis and basketball.
Location
Education & Experience
Board Certifications

  • 2019, State of California, C162598

  • 2014, American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine, Diplomate

  • 2012, American Board of Radiology, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Subspecialty Certification

  • 2010, State of Florida, ME 106663

  • 2009, American Board of Radiology

  • California DEA, FS1745477

Degrees

  • 2004, M.D., University of Miami School of Medicine

  • 2000, B.S., University of Miami

Fellowship

  • 2009-2010, Vascular Interventional Radiology Fellowship, Department of Radiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY

Residency

  • 2008-2009, Chief Radiology Resident, Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY

  • 2005-2009, Diagnostic Radiology Residency, Department of Radiology,
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY

Internship

  • 2004-2005, Internal Medicine Internship, Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica, NY

Professional Experience

  • 2022-Present, Clinical Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

  • 2019-2022, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist, Kaiser Permanente Riverside, Department of Radiology Riverside, California

  • 2019-2022, Teleradiologist, Kaiser Permanente, Department of Radiology

  • 2017-2019, Associate Professor of Clinical Interventional Radiology, Department of Interventional Radiology, University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Miami, Florida

  • 2017-2019, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

  • 2010-2017, Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

  • 2015-2017, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery (secondary appointment), Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Miami, Florida

  • 1999-2000, Research Assistant to Ann Leubke, M.D. (PI), University of Miami, School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology

Awards & Memberships
Awards

  • 2009, New York Roentgen Quiz 1st Place Winner, Pediatric Neuroradiology

  • 2009, New York Roentgen Quiz 2nd Place Winner, Pet Imaging

  • 2008, RSNA Roentgen Resident Research Award, Radiology, Jacobi Medical Center, New York, NY

  • 2007, New York Roentgen Quiz 2nd Place Winner, Body MRI

  • 2003, Alpha Omega Alpha, Miami FL

  • 2000-2004, Medical School Scholarship, Board of Trustees 4-Year Full Tuition, University of Miami, Miami, FL

  • 1997-2004, MD/BS program, University of Miami Medical Scholar Program, 7 year combined, Miami, FL

Memberships

  • 2016-Present, American College of Phlebology

  • 2006-Present, Radiology Society of North America

  • 2015-Present, Association of Program Directors In Interventional Radiology

  • 2008-Present, Society of Interventional Radiology

  • 2015-2020, Florida Vascular Society

  • 2013-2017, South Florida Society for Vascular Surgery

  • 2011-2013, American College of Radiology

  • 2007-2013, American Roentgen Ray Society

Publications

Books and Monographs

  • Salsamendi J, Arya R, Ghosh S, Narayanan G. Pharmacomechanical Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism. In: Vascular Imaging and Endovascular Intervention, Kim D, Orron D, Patel N, Farber A, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publisher, Chapter 37. ISBN-13: 978-9385999024
  • Quintana D, Salsamendi J, Munera F. Interventional Radiology in Trauma Setting. In: Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Asensio JA and Trunkey DD, 2nd ed., Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, Chapter 25, pp 116 - 122. ISBN-13: 978-0323079808
  • Salsamendi J, Gortes F, Issam K. New Concepts In The Management of Pulmonary Embolus. In: Atlas of Endovascular Venous Surgery 2nd ed., Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, Chapter 15. ISBN 9780323511391. Pending publishing: Interventional Radiology in Trauma Setting. In: Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Asensio JA and Trunkey DD, 3rd ed.

Journal Articles

  • Bayona Molano MDP, Salsamendi J, et al. Emergent mechanical thrombectomy for right atrial clot and massive pulmonary embolism using flowtriever. Clin Case Rep. 2021 Jan; 21;9(3): 1241-1246. PMID 33768819.
  • Molano MDPB, Garza L, Selvaggi G, Vasani J, Gutierrez, Salsamendi J, et al. Impact of liver-directed therapy and non-therapy on the waiting time list of patient candidates for liver transplantation; retrospective survival analysis. Clin Exp Hepatol. 2020 Dec; 6(4): 304-312. PMID 33511277.
  • Cortesi C, Sedki M, Ruiz P, Salsamendi J, et al. Computed Tomography- Guided Kidney Transplant Biopsy Outcomes: A Single Center Experience. Exp Clin Transplant. 2020 Nov; 18(6): 676-681 PMID 31526335.
  • Li S, Swersky A, Shah H, Salsamendi J, et al. Discover of spontaneous shunt following portal vein embolization. J Card Surg. 2019 Nov; 34(11): 1411-1415. PMID 31475755.
  • Nicolau-Raducu R, Livingstone J, Salsamendi J, et al. Visceral arterial embolization prior to multivisceral transplantation in recipient with cirrhosis, extensive portomesenteric thrombosis, and hostile abdomen: Performance and outcome analysis. Clin Transplant. 2019 Aug; 33(8). PMID 31230385.
  • Amin A, Salsamendi J, et al. High-Fidelity Endovascular Simulation. TVIR 2019 Mar; 22(1); 7-13. PMID 30765076.
  • Shah KS, Mohan PP, Salsamendi J. The Utility of Transesophageal Echocardiogram and Transabdominal Ultrasound for Facilitation of Inferior Vena Cava and Right Atrial Thrombus Removal Using AngioVac System. CVIR. 2018 Jan; 41(1): 197-199. PMID 28852827.
  • Amin A, Tu J, Salsamendi J. A Venous Malformation in the Vastus Lateralis; Our Experience with Cryotherapy. Ann Vasc Surg. 2018 Oct; 52:31. PMID 29886207.
  • Mohan PP, Richarson AJ, Salsamendi J. Percutaneous Retrieval of IVC Filter With Struts Penetrating the Vertebral Body. Vasc Endovascular Surg. 2018. Oct; 52(7): 550-552. PMID 298843578.
  • Amin A, Chang YS, Sullivan T, Salsamendi J. Retrieval of a Retained Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Stent Graft Deployment Line. JVIR. 2018 Sep; 29(9): 1330-1331. PMID 30146218.
  • Sandhu J, Swersky A, Salsamendi J, et al. Utilization of a Modified Roux- en-Y Anastamosis as an Access point for Percutaneous Transjejunal Cholangioplasty of Recurrent Biliary strictures. CVIR. 2019 Sep; 6. PMID 31493058.
  • Salsamendi J, Amin A. Sclerotherapy of Vastus Lateralis Ganglion Cyst. JVIR 2018 May; 29(5): 739. PMID: 29685664.
  • Amin A, Stark RM, Salsamendi J. Safe Travels During Hurricanes. Lancet 2018 Mar; 10;391(10124): 938. PMID 29536858.
  • Shah KS, Mohan PP, Salsamendi J. The utility of transesophageal echocardiogram and transabdominal ultrasound for facilitation of inferior vena cava and right atrial thrombus removal using AngioVac System. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2018 Jan;41(1):197-199. PMID: 28852827
  • Doshi MH, Salsamendi J, Narayanan G. Portal venous stenosis following liver transplant: role of transsplenic intervention. Liver Transpl. 2017 Sep;23(9):1101-1102. PMID: 28734122
  • Salsamendi J, Morffi D, Gortes FJ. Removal of and Intramuscular Contraceptive Implant. JVIR 2017 Mar; 28(3): 465. PMID: 28231924
  • Gortes FJ, Salsamendi J. Minimally Invasive Management of Renovascular Complications After Renal Graft Transplantation. Ann Vasc Surg. 2017 Jan; 38: 8. PMID: 28335117
     
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11/27/23
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11/27/23
All good thank you. - Verified patient
10/27/23
Very nice and caring doctor - Verified patient
09/22/23
Dr Salsamendi was extremely knowledgeable & pleasant - Verified patient