Why Embolix
The most experienced name in musculoskeletal embolization — in the world.
Embolization is a precise procedure, and experience shows. Embolix physicians were among the first to grow these treatments in the United States and now hold the largest musculoskeletal embolization experience worldwide, with thousands of procedures a year behind them.
The Embolix Institute for MSK Embolization
The physicians who teach this field
Musculoskeletal embolization is precise work, and experience is what makes it safe and effective. The Embolix Institute is where that experience gets passed on: our physicians have trained more interventional radiologists in these techniques than any other program — the same physicians and techniques behind the thousands of procedures performed across our network every year.
For you, that means a simple guarantee: every physician who treats an Embolix patient is Embolix-trained — proctored in these specific procedures by the team that pioneered them in the United States, not just credentialed in general radiology.
What Embolix-trained means
- ✔Hands-on proctoring by the physicians who pioneered these procedures in the U.S.
- ✔Trained in the specific techniques for knee, post-replacement, hip, and frozen shoulder embolization
- ✔Part of a network performing thousands of these procedures every year
- ✔Ongoing case review across the network — every physician benefits from everyone's experience
Our physicians
Leaders who helped bring these procedures to patients across the country.
Keerthi Prasad, MD
CEO · Vascular & Interventional Radiologist. Pioneer of musculoskeletal embolization in the U.S.; featured on the national BackTable MSK podcast.
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Monish Merchant, MD
CMO · Vascular & Interventional Radiologist. Widely published; large-volume experience in advanced embolization.
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Rohit Puranik, MD
COO · Triple board-certified in pain management, venous/lymphatic medicine, and anesthesiology.
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Backed by evidence
These aren't experimental procedures done in a vacuum. Joint embolization is supported by a growing body of published research and, as of 2026, a supportive position statement from the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) — the field's leading professional body.
- 📄Supportive 2026 SIR position statement on knee embolization
- 🔬Multiple published clinical studies for knee and hip
- 🧪Ongoing national clinical trials advancing the science
As seen & heard
Our physicians educate patients and peers through national podcasts, media, and physician networks.
Resorbable Embolics in MSK Embolizations
Dr. Keerthi Prasad on the embolic agents behind knee, plantar-fascia, and shoulder embolization.
Listen →Pain & Veins: A Unique OBL Practice
Dr. Keerthi Prasad on building a multidisciplinary outpatient IR practice.
Listen →Experience you can feel.
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