Dr Hao Xiang
Biography
Dr Xiang completed his MBBS (Hons II) at UNSW in 2011, winning the GR Cameron Prize for pathology. Following this he completed internship and residency at Nepean Hospital before being accepted into radiology training at Concord Hospital. During his radiology training he served as the trainee representative for NSW for two consecutive years, and was a member of the research committee with RANZCR.
After obtaining his FRANZCR in 2019, he undertook an interventional radiology fellowship in Vancouver, Canada under the University of British Columbia from 2019 to 2020. He has completed the EBIR with distinction, an award given to the top two candidates world wide each year.
Dr Xiang currently holds public interventional radiology appointments at Liverpool Hospital and Concord Hospital. He is also appointed at Sydney Southwest Private Hospital.
Expertise
Dr Xiang is an expert at cryoablation both for curative intent, palliation, and the control of complex pain. Key organs treated include the kidneys, liver and lungs. He co-runs the cryoablation workshops at Liverpool Hospital and is a proctor for cryoablation in Australia.
He is also interested in other aspects of chronic pain management including complex nerve blocks, neurolysis with phenol or ethanol, pulsed RFA (neuromodulation), thermal RFA and cryoneurolysis. Areas treated with these techniques include the knee (genicular nerve), shoulder (suprascapular nerve), face (trigeminal nerve) among others.
He also performs a wide range of endovascular procedures including prostate artery embolisation, varicocele embolisation, TACE and SIRTEX.
He remains a keen diagnostic radiologist with interests in integrating the latest 4D CT, dual energy (spectral) CT and MRI techniques into vascular imaging. He is the clinical lead in 4D aortic imaging at Spectrum.