Originally from Brazil, Dr. Uflacker moved to the United States in 1993 and is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina, class of 2009. He completed residency and fellowship at the University of Virginia from 2010 to 2015 where he was on faculty in the Division of Interventional Radiology until 2019. While still in training at UVA, Dr. Uflacker helped introduce Prostatic Artery Embolization (PAE) to Virginia after completing a training course on the procedure in Lisbon, Portugal.

On moving to Charleston in 2019, Dr. Uflacker was on faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina where he brought PAE to Charleston, until going into private practice in 2023. Dr. Uflacker joined Lowcountry Urology to provide Prostate Artery Embilization (PAE) and other niche pelvic minimally invasive interventions to patients in South Carolina. In addition to several scientific studies on PAE, Dr. Uflacker is also an avid painter and created several illustrations for the 3rd Edition of the “Atlas of Vascular Anatomy: An Angiographic Approach,” originally published by his father, Renan Uflacker, MD, who also practiced Interventional Radiology.