Stephen Ferrara, M.D.

Stephen Ferrara is an active-duty captain (select) and physician in the U.S. Navy. He is the chief of interventional radiology and the immediate past director of the radiology residency program at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He has multiple worldwide deployments, including serving as chief of radiology aboard the USNS Mercy during Operation Unified Assistance I/II, serving in the 2005 Asian tsunami relief effort, and most recently serving in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he provided primary care to 2,200 combat troops and volunteered at the NATO Role 3 hospital. In Afghanistan, Ferrara was the first to introduce interventional radiology to the battlefield.

Ferrara writes extensively and lectures on the adaptation of advanced health care technologies in austere and remote environments. His clinical interests include pediatric interventional radiology with an emphasis on treatment of complex vascular malformations. His military honors include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the Humanitarian Service Medal.

Ferrara received his BS in molecular biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MD from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He completed a surgical internship and a diagnostic

radiology residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego and subspecialty training in vascular and interventional radiology at the University of California, San Diego, and Boston Children’s Hospital. He is board certified in diagnostic radiology as well as vascular and interventional radiology and serves as a board examiner for the American Board of Radiology.