Dr. Gavin Slethaug serves as associate chief medical officer of growth and executive vice president of practice partnerships for Radiology Partners, leading and supporting all initiatives of the practice's growth team, including partnerships and M&A, internal market development and national health system relationships. Dr. Slethaug is an interventional radiologist at Southwest Medical Imaging (SMIL) and HonorHealth, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is a partner at SMIL and has held numerous leadership positions within SMIL, HonorHealth and Southwest Diagnostic Imaging. Currently, he serves on the board of AZPACT (Arizona Physicians Advancing Cardiovascular Treatment) and also on the leadership council for HonorHealth's Heart and Vascular Institute. Dr. Slethaug earned his medical degree from University of Toronto. He completed both his residency and fellowship in interventional radiology at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
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