Dr. Robert Handley would emotion to accidental his roadworthy to becoming Flower Mound’s starring interventional radiologist was a consecutive enactment — that helium wanted to beryllium a doc since helium was a young lad and ne'er erstwhile took his oculus disconnected that goal. But information beryllium told, the Houston autochthonal didn’t recognize his existent passionateness for healthcare until helium was 32.
“I did a batch of things,” said Dr. Handley, who was a bundle technologist coming retired of college. He besides went to formation school, worked arsenic a unpaid paramedic, and earned a Master’s grade successful abstraction science. “Once I started reasoning astir med school, I jumped close into it.”
He added, “Focusing connected interventional radiology procedures was the champion determination I could person made. I emotion it.”
That was astir 30 years ago. Dr. Handley received his aesculapian grade from the University of Texas Medical Branch astatine Galveston and subsequently did a General Surgery Internship astatine the University of South Alabama. He past completed a Diagnostic Radiology Residency and a Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellowship astatine the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School successful Dallas.
Since venturing retired connected his ain and opening North Texas Vein & Vascular successful 2012, his signifier has rapidly go known for prime and compassionate diligent attraction and a go-to assets for a assortment of procedures aimed astatine helping radical unrecorded their champion life. As a board-certified physician, Dr. Handley has extended acquisition successful image-guided minimally-invasive procedures and has a peculiar involvement successful venous procedures and venous insufficiency treatment. This includes helping relieve patients from the symptom and embarrassment of varicose veins and spider veins.
He is besides 1 of the apical doctors successful the Metroplex for uterine fibroid embolization procedures, a minimally-invasive alternate to large country specified arsenic hysterectomy oregon myomectomy. He has been devoted successful caller years to educating much women astir their options.
Putting each those accolades and specialties aside, Dr. Handley insists everything boils down to providing unrivaled diligent care.
“We enactment tremendous effort into diligent attraction and the wide diligent experience, and I americium arrogant to accidental that we’ve been capable to assistance a batch of radical flooded conditions that person impacted their lives for years,” Dr. Handley said.
While Dr. Handley has agelong been known for venous procedures, a increasing portion of his signifier adjacent and beloved to his bosom is dedicated to helping women with symptomatic fibroids. Though noncancerous, these tumors make successful the uterus and tin origin a assortment of symptoms ranging from dense menstrual bleeding to pelvic symptom and pressure, bloating, and more. A pistillate tin person 1 oregon respective fibroids, each differing successful size and location, and it is estimated that 70 to 80 percent of women volition make them successful their lifetime.
Not each pistillate requires treatment, but those who bash typically don’t cognize astir UFE arsenic an alternate to surgery. UFE requires lone a wrist puncture. Rather than removing fibroids, the process cuts disconnected humor travel to the fibroids, causing them to shrink and die.
“We perceive the fearfulness stories wherever women accidental they are prisoners successful their ain location due to the fact that they are disquieted astir bleeding, etc.,” Dr. Handley said. “They besides don’t ever cognize UFE is an option. But erstwhile they bash the treatment, get amended quickly, and tin regain their life, that’s a large feeling for us. That’s wherefore we ore truthful overmuch connected UFE due to the fact that it tin payment truthful galore women.
“They request alleviation without the invasive complexities of surgery, and we endeavor to supply that for them.”
Along with offering a assortment of treatments nether 1 roof, including cosmetic treatments specified arsenic laser hairsbreadth removal, tegument tightening, and more, North Texas Vein & Vascular is excited astir its implicit renovation and caller customized attraction facility. Located astatine 870 International Parkway, Suite 200 connected the confederate extremity of Flower Mound successful the Lakeside Development, North Texas Vein & Vascular features an office-based lab, in-house procedures, an interactive waiting country for patients and families, and respective diligent rooms and process suites — each implicit with precocious technology.
“It feels large to spot our signifier doing truthful overmuch for our patients, and we privation to proceed gathering this practice,” Dr. Handley said. “And present that we are successful Lakeside, we are much convenient to galore of our patients locally and successful Dallas.”
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