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Deveikis finds MUSC perfect for his specialty by Heather Murphy Public Relations At the beginning of April, MUSC extended a welcome to John P. Deveikis, M.D., into the Department of Radiology. Specializing in neurointerventional radiology, Deveikis was recruited to MUSC as director of diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology in the Neuroscience Center.  “It was a combination of the great climate, the friendly people, and the seemingly wide open professional opportunity in an area under served by my specialty,” Deveikis said. His wife, Susan, a registered nurse specializing in the same type of care, will join him in his unit at the conclusion of her orientation to MUSC. Concurrent with MUSC’s mission to provide state-of-the-art care, he and his team frequently perform procedures like cerebral and spinal arteriography, endovascular treatment of brain aneurysms and vascular malformations, emergency catheter-based treatment for stroke, and other minimally invasive procedures. Deveikis began his career at the University of Massachusetts where he received his medical degree and pursued his surgical internship and radiology residency. He left New England for the rest of his training and completed a diagnostic neuroradiology fellowship under Alan Fox, M.D., at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.  His first post-fellowship position was the first director of interventional neuroradiology at Georgetown University Hospital in 1988, while also providing services to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Medical Center. In 1991, Deveikis began a 12-year stint as the director of interventional neuroradiology at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.  Along with building an active program designed to provide a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for vascular diseases, neoplasms, congenital malformations, and degenerative diseases of the brain, head, neck and spine, Deveikis enjoyed training new practitioners in his field, as well as conducting research into various neurological vascular diseases.     Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.