Debkumar Sarkar, DO

Dr. Debkumar Sarkar, DO, MBA, FSIR is a board-certified interventional radiologist. He is an assistant professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an attending radiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Sarkar serves as director of outpatient interventional radiology services for the Department of Radiology.

Dr. Sarkar has extensive experience in interventional oncology and cancer diagnosis and treatment. He is locally and nationally renowned for treatment of metastatic tumors in the liver, lung, and kidneys. Dr. Sarkar has extensive experience with minimally invasive techniques including Y90 radioembolization, microwave ablation, cryoablation, and histotripsy for primary and metastatic cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma, colon cancer, and metastatic breast cancer.

In addition to cancer therapy, Dr. Sarkar brings expertise in the treatment of venous disorders including deep venous thrombosis, venous thromboembolism, and vascular insufficiency. Dr. Sarkar has extensive experience treating complex biliary disorders and performs cholangioscopy. He is also very experienced in women's health treatments for pelvic pain related to fibroids and pelvic congestion syndrome. Dr. Sarkar performs pain management and spine related procedures such as vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. He also works in conjunction with urologists in the treatment of male infertility and urinary obstruction.

Dr. Sarkar completed his undergraduate training in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. He completed medical school training at Rowan University, followed by a Masters in Business Administration from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Sarkar completed an internship at UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a residency in diagnostic radiology at Cooper University Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center of NJ in Camden, NJ. He subsequently completed a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology and interventional oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Sarkar served as chief of interventional radiology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and subsequently joined the faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before being recruited to Columbia.

Dr. Sarkar has published on numerous topics in IR including treatment of metastatic cancers in the liver with radioembolization and ablation and various topics involving robotics, artificial intelligence, and informatics. He is a member of the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Society of Interventional Oncology where he serves on several national committees including the SIR Economics committee and the expert consensus panel for management of pulmonary embolism.