Meet Dr. Patrick Harty at MIC Imaging and Procedure Center (micimagingcenter.com).

Tell us a little about your business. – We are a private practice radiology group with over 40 physicians, and cover over 20 hospitals and outpatient facilities in eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa. We have recently expanded our outpatient IR services at the MIC Imaging and Procedure Center, including angiography with angioplasty and stenting; varicose vein interventions; spine interventions including vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty; vascular access; imaging guided biopsies; uterine fibroid embolization; and prostate artery embolization for BPH, in addition to many more minimally invasive imaging guided non-surgical procedures.

How did you get started in the business? – I have been a physician for 25 years, did much of my training right here in Nebraska at Creighton University, and was in practice in Sacramento for 16 years in one of the largest private practice radiology groups in the country at that time. We started 2 outpatient IR centers while I was there almost 15 years ago, and were very involved early on, innovating in the outpatient IR space. Outpatient IR has become much more widely available nationwide since that time, and I am proud to be a part of expanding IR services at our new outpatient center, MIC Imaging and Procedure Center at 119th and Center.

What has been your most important achievement professionally? – I have been involved in a number of clinical trials as a practicing private practice physician, and have always been involved in training of the next generation of doctors. I guess the biggest honor was to have been frequently voted into the Best Sacramento Physician’s list by my peers in Sacramento Magazine’s annual doctor’s issue, and was even featured on the cover a few years ago. That and continuing to innovate in the space of Peripheral Arterial Disease treatment over the course of my career.

What do you see as one of the biggest turning points in your life? – I would say the best decision of my life was deciding to leave my home state of California and move back to Nebraska almost 3 years ago now. It has been exceptionally gratifying to return to my alma mater to teach, join a practice with lifelong friends and colleagues, and to be treating the best patients in the world right here in Nebraska.

What is the most unique or interesting thing about you that most people probably don’t know? – I Competed in the CrossFit Games team competition finals at the Home Depot Center in Southern California in 2010.

Who inspires you? – Pat Vogel, MD, Jim Swischuk, MD, Chad Eicher, MD and Chris Laing, MD.

What is your favorite quote or the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? – “You’re not the smartest kid in kindergarten anymore, nobody cares.” –David Seidenwurm MD, a neuroradiologist and Harvard Grad from my former practice, on what every physician needs to be told. His meaning was to remind us that we are all here to work hard and work together to do the best for our patients, regardless of where we went to school or who we are/were.

If you had a theme song, what would it be? – I don’t know about theme song, but “Wake Me Up” by Avicci is a pretty great song for the bike trainer.

If you could choose any other profession to be successful in, what would it be? – I have always been a big computer nerd, so I would imagine I would have migrated to silicon valley in the early days if I hadn’t gone to medical school.