Doctor's Bio
Dr. Zachary L. Bercu is Assistant Professor in the Division of Interventional Radiology and Image-Guided Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and is Assistant Program Director for Interventional Radiology Residency and Fellowship at Emory. Dr. Bercu is Assistant Site Director of Interventional Radiology at Emory University Hospital Midtown and serves on the Steering Committee for the Georgia Center for Medical Robotics. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Emory University School of Medicine. He performed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology and his fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York. His clinical, research, and educational interests include rapid innovation integration in the angiosuite, locoregional therapies including selective internal radiotherapy with Yttrium-90, chemoembolization, and ablation, prostate artery embolization, uterine artery embolization, transradial interventions, embolization guidance technology, peripheral arterial disease, central venous stenosis and endovascular simulation.
Board Certifications
American Board of Radiology
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine
- Internship: Saint Vincent Catholic Medical
- Residency: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Fellowships
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Locations and Directions
Correll Pavilion
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Gilmer St. SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Grady Memorial Hospital
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Publications
- Robotically steerable guidewires-Current trends and future directions.
Konda R, Brumfiel TA, Bercu ZL, Grossberg JA, Desai JP
Science robotics. 2025;10(105):eadt7461.
PMID: 40802733 - Evaluation of Multilingual Simplifications of IR Procedural Reports Using GPT-4.
Li HH, Moon JT, Kumar S, Ricci J, Sim N, Bercu ZL, Newsome J, Trivedi HM, Gichoya JW
Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR. 2025;36(4):696-703.e1.
PMID: 39793700 - Decoding radiology reports: Potential application of OpenAI ChatGPT to enhance patient understanding of diagnostic reports.
Li H, Moon JT, Iyer D, Balthazar P, Krupinski EA, Bercu ZL, Newsome JM, Banerjee I, Gichoya JW, Trivedi HM
Clinical imaging. 2023;
PMID: 37336169 - Use of Metformin and Survival in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Undergoing Liver Directed Therapy: Analysis of a Nationwide Cancer Registry.
Mukherjee K, Elsayed M, Choksi E, Loya MF, Duszak R, Akce M, Majdalany BS, Bercu ZL, Cristescu M, Kokabi N
Cardiovascular and interventional radiology. 2023;46(7):870-879.
PMID: 37217649 - Supervised segmentation for guiding peripheral revascularization with forward-viewing, robotically steered ultrasound guidewire.
Collins GC, Strassle Rojas S, Bercu ZL, Desai JP, Lindsey BD
Medical physics. 2023;50(6):3459-3474.
PMID: 36906877 - Transradial Uterine Artery Embolization Complicated by Stroke.
Wu R, Peters GL, Charles H, Kokabi N, Bercu ZL, Majdalany BS
Seminars in interventional radiology. 2022;39(6):591-595.
PMID: 36561802 - Correlation of Non-tumoral Liver Dose with Treatment-Related Adverse Events in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Glass-Based Yttrium-90 Radioembolization.
Webster LA, Villalobos A, Cheng B, Xing M, Majdalany BS, Bercu ZL, Cristescu MM, Brandon D, Schuster D, Baum Y, Loya MF, Kokabi N
Cardiovascular and interventional radiology. 2023;46(1):60-68.
PMID: 36450996 - Cooled Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Joint Pain Secondary to Hip and Shoulder Osteoarthritis.
Kallas ON, Nezami N, Singer AD, Wong P, Kokabi N, Bercu ZL, Umpierrez M, Tran A, Reimer NB, Oskouei SV, Gonzalez FM
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc. 2022;42(2):594-608.
PMID: 35148246 - Dual-Resonance (16/32 MHz) Piezoelectric Transducer With a Single Electrical Connection for Forward-Viewing Robotic Guidewire.
Collins GC, Brumfiel TA, Bercu ZL, Desai JP, Lindsey BD
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control. 2022;69(4):1428-1441.
PMID: 35143395 - Standard Radiation Dosimetry Models: What Interventional Radiologists Need to Know.
Webster LA, Villalobos A, Majdalany BS, Bercu ZL, Gandhi RT, Kokabi N
Seminars in interventional radiology. 2021;38(4):405-411.
PMID: 34629706
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