Family Medicine Center’s Mikhail Higgins, MD, MPH
Mikhail Higgins, MD, MPH, joined the prestigious Family Medicine Center in Nassau, Bahamas, as an interventional radiology attending physician in 2021. As the first Bahamian board-certified and fellowship-trained interventional radiologist, his work at the facility has involved establishing uterine artery embolization procedures as the definitive minimally invasive option for women in the Bahamas and across the Caribbean suffering with symptomatic uterine fibroids. In 2023, Dr. Higgins launched a medical tourism retreat program to serve women suffering with uterine fibroids across the Caribbean. Burdened with the decision to choose suffering or major surgery, Dr. Higgins created this novel and accessible Bahamas-based retreat program program with his team of health and hospitality partners in order to provide an unprecedented access to this curative minimally invasive treatment option.
Dr. Higgins has balanced his pioneering work at the Family Medicine Center with his duties as an assistant professor and interventional radiology attending physician at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Higgins is the Founding Chair of RISQCS (Radiology Interventions Safety Quality and Complications Symposium), a dedicated medicolegal, patient-safety, and risk management IR educational initiative for medical students, IR trainees and practicing IR’s, and which has been endorsed by the Society of Interventional Radiology since it's inception in 2020.
Mikhail Higgins, MD, MPH, is an accomplished educator and researcher. A published researcher on Quality and Safety in the field of Interventional Radiology as well as Burnout in Medicine, Dr. Higgins is a widely sought speaker and educator. He has a popular Interventional Radiology Mastery level Course Series on MRI Online. In 2020, he was nominated by AuntMinnie.Com as Semifinalist for Most Influential Radiology Researcher. In 2021, he was inducted in the Boston University Medical Group's Clinical Excellence Society. He also received the Best of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) Award for publishing the top article in the Leadership category in 2021. In 2022, he was recipient of the William Cranley Medical Student Teaching Award.
Mikhail Higgins holds a bachelor of arts in biology, with a minor in Hispanic studies, from Macalester College. He has a graduate degree in Public Health with a concentration in Health Care Policy and Health Care Administration from Yale University's School of Public Health and a medical degree from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is a member of several professional groups and organizations, including the American College of Radiology, the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Society, and the Society of Interventional Radiology.