Professor Mark Little

Professional statement

Professor Mark Little is a highly experienced and revered consultant interventional and diagnostic radiologist. He has a very busy embolisation practice and is recognised as one of the most experienced clinicians performing prostate artery embolization (PAE) in the world.

He is regularly invited to teach and lecture on PAE throughout the world, has written several peer-reviewed journal articles on the technique, and was the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) specialist advisor for the procedure. Professor Little specialises in prostate MRI scans, fibroid embolisation, prostate artery embolisation, benign prostate enlargement, varicocele embolisation, uroradiology, and ultrasound scanning.

He is currently practising in Berkshire, and London, at The Princess Grace Hospital. Alongside his busy clinical practice, Professor Little is the current lead for research within the University Department of Radiology at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently leading the first European study investigating genicular artery embolisation in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis, and is also leading a trial investigating the neuro-psychological factors correlating with failure to adhere to a day-case uterine artery embolisation (UAE) pathway. He was awarded the NIHR Research Rising Star award in 2018, and the CVIR editors medal for best peer-reviewed publication in 2022. He is the current member of the editorial board for CVIR, the largest interventional radiology journal in Europe.