Joshua Hirsch

ssociate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Vice Chair, Interventional Care, Quality and Safety; Service Line Chief, Interventional Radiology; Division Chief, Neurointerventional Radiology; Chief, Interventional Spine Service; Associate Departmental Quality Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School

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  • Harvard Medical School

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Harvard Medical School

Joshua Hirsch MD FACR FSIR FSNIS is director of Interventional Neuroradiology, chief of the Interventional Spine Service, vice chair of Interventional Radiology Quality & Safety and associate Departmental Quality Chair. He has extensive experience in diagnosis, management and treatment of cerebrovascular disease, minimally invasive spine surgery and acute stroke treatment.

Dr. Hirsch has published over 450 papers, 40 chapters and edited multiple books in the peer-reviewed literature. He is a founding editor of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery and is a past president of both the American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR) and the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS). He has been elected to the board of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), the Society for Injectable Osteoarticular Biomaterials and the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR). He is chair of a committee for academicians at the American College of Radiology.

Dr. Hirsch was named a senior affiliate research fellow of the Neiman Policy Institute. He is an advisor to the RUC, chairs the health policy committee and member of the Niekro Foundation's Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Hirsch co-chairs the Neuro-Psychiatric working group developing episodic cost measures.

Dr. Hirsch has received numerous awards including ones for transformational leadership at the ASSR, distinguished service at the ASNR and academic achievement at ASIPP. He has been named one of America's Top Doctors and a Best of Boston physician for multiple consecutive years. He is a member of the Marquis Who's Who and was recently awarded the 100 designation from the MGH's Cancer Center. He has been named an inaugural fellow of the SNIS for his many contributions to the field of NeuroInterventional Surgery.

Research Summary

Dr. Hirsch has multiple research interests and actively publishes extensively in the peer-reviewed literature. His research includes cerebrovascular disease and minimally invasive options to treat cerebrovascular conditions such as intracranial aneurysms (both ruptured and unruptured), arterio-venous malformations and large vessel occlusion leading to stroke. As a result of this research, Dr. Hirsch has led the development of multiple clinical guidelines for cerebrovascular disease and is invited around the world to lecture on these topics.

Dr. Hirsch's research includes many important projects related to percutaneous augmentation. He has authored one of the largest series in the peer-reviewed literature for the minimally invasive treatment of both malignant and benign vertebral compression fractures. Most recently, he has focused on futuristic elements such as treatment of new sites and new theories of treatment. Concurrently, Dr. Hirsch has been very active in defining standards for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in interventional pain management (IPM). To that end, he has published extensively in the IPM space.

Additionally, Dr. Hirsch has published extensively on socioeconomic issues, health care policy, interventional operations management, comparative effectiveness research and evidence-based clinical practice.

Dr. Hirsch is a founding editor of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, has served on the editorial board on many prestigious journals and has produced multiple podcasts in association with these various publications.

Clinical Interests

  • Minimally invasive treatments of back and leg pain
  • Compression fracture
  • Sacral fracture
  • Back pain
  • Herniated disc
  • Vertebroplasty
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Sacroplasty
  • Metastatic spine tumors
  • Spine fractures
  • Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD)
  • Minimally invasive cerebrovascular disease

Medical Education

  • MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania|Fellowship, Lahey Clinic

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Diagnostic Radiology

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