Akhilesh (Akhi) K. Sista , MD

Fellow

Stanford Biodesign Program
, CA

CTSA Fellow, 2009-10
Akhilesh (Akhi) Sista grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended college at Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He then went to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, where he received his M.D. in 2004.

From 2002-2003, Akhi worked as a Sarnoff Cardiovascular research scholar in Philip Tsao's lab in the cardiovascular department at Stanford University, where he researched the molecular basis of arteriosclerosis in hyperinsulinemic rats.

Akhi did his internship at the Stanford Medical Center in the department of internal medicine and then began his residency at the University of California, San Francisco in the department of radiology in July 2005. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Akhi was a T32 training grant recipient, during which he researched the optical imaging characteristics of murine breast tumors and began a clinical PET/CT clinical project examining a new PET tracer's efficacy in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis.

Akhi will do a fellowship in interventional radiology from July 2010-July 2011. His interest in medical device design was spurred in part by exposure to devices in the IR suite, as well as by his experience patenting a kit to increase the accuracy of brain ventriculostomy catheter placement.