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Fabrizio Fanelli M.D.

Education and Degrees
Graduated cum Laude in the Medical School of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1994/95.
State qualifying examination in 1996 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Residency in Radiology, at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", graduated cum Laude in November 2, 2000.
Visiting Resident at the University of Stanford - California - USA, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology unit, Chairman Prof. Michael D. Dake (July - September 2000).
"Visitor Program" at the Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute - Baptist Hospital - Miami - Florida - USA, Chairman Prof. Barry T. Katzen in January and February 2004.

Postgraduate clinical and teaching activity
Since 2001 assistant Radiologist at "Sapienza" - University of Rome - Department of Radiological Sciences - Interventional Radiology Unit, Chairman Prof. R.Passariello
Teaching professor of Interventional Radiology at the School of Radiology - "Sapienza" - University of Rome.
Teaching Professor at the "European Surgical Institute - ESI" (Johnson & Johnson learning center - Hamburg - Germany) for endovascular procedures (Carotid artery stenting and treatment of the peripheral diseases).
Teaching Professor at the "European School of Interventional Radiology" (ESIR) - Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE).
Member of the "CIRSE Simulator Training Task-force" performing teaching sessions using simulators (Virtual reality hands-on-workshops).
Since 2008 member of the CIRSE Foundation Advisory Council - Vascular Division - for the development of endovascular procedures.
Elected member of CIRSE (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe) "Standard of Practice Committee" in the years 2007- 2009.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE).

Elected Chairman of the CIRSE Rules Committee for the years 2009 - 2011.
Involved in different experimental studies for the evaluation of new materials and devices in clinical practice:
- "Viatorr European Multicenter Trial". European Multicenter Trial on the use of "Viatorr" stent-graft (W.L. Gore & Associates) in TIPS (January 2000)
- "European Multicenter Trial on Biliary Stent-graft". European Multicenter Trial on the use of "Viabil" stent-graft (W.L. Gore & Associates) in the treatment of malignant biliary stenoses. (March 2001)
- "Anaconda Project". Experimental Study on "Anaconda" endoprosthesis for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. (March 2001)
- "SMART Registry". Italian National Registry on the use of a nitinol self-expandable stent for peripheral vascular diseases (SMART stent - Cordis Endovascular). (February 2005)
Member of the Project design
- "ODORI European Registry". European Registry for the evaluation of a new type of renal stent (Tsunami - Terumo Co.). (June 2005)
- "UFE - Uterine Fibroids Embolization - CIRSE Registry" Multicenter European Registry on uterine fibroids embolization. (September 2005)
- Zilver PTX Global Registry (Cook Inc.) Worldwide registry to evaluate a new drug eluting stent in the superficial femoral artery (Zilver PTX). (November 2005)
Steering Committee Member, Italian PI
- "Complete Registry", European registry on the efficacy of the Complete (Complete SE - Medtronic) self-expandable stent in the iliac arteries. (November 2007)
- "Misago Registry" to evaluate the performances of a new 0.035" rapid-exchange stent in the femoro-iliac district (Misago Stent - Terumo Co.).(May 2008)

Scientific activity
Author and co-author of 35 papers concerning the radiological, surgical and clinical fields.
Author of the book: "Carotid Artery Stenting - Technical Handbook" - Ed. Minerva Medica 2008.
Co-author of nine books on radiological and interventional sciences.
Over than 300 oral presentations in International and National conventions.
Invited lecturer and moderator in several International and National meetings.
Reviewer of scientific articles for the most important Journals on interventional radiology: Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology (JVIR), Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology (CVIR), European Radiology, Journal of Endovascular Therapy (JEVT), European Journal of Radiology.
Organizer of congresses, seminars and courses. Founder of www.carortidworld.org a scientific website dedicated to the treatment of the carotid pathology.

Scientific and professional societies
Active member of:
- Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM)
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
- European Society of Radiology (ESR)
- European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR)
- Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE)
- Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)

He took his Medical degree (110/110) in 1952.
After getting his professional qualification he began to work as a voluntary assistant first at the University of Florence (1st Chair of Special Surgery Pathology) and then at the Dono Svizzero Hospital in Formia (Italy).
In 1954 he moved to the USA where he entered the post-graduate School of Radiology and specialized in 1959.
In that year he started to work as a radiologist at the St.Vincent 's Hospital in New York where he held the position of Vascular Radiologist until 1971.
In the same period he was also Clinical Professor at Cornell University.
During the seventeen years spent in the States he distinguished himself as a pioneer in the field of cardiovascular and interventional Radiology taking several honorary appointments (such as Fellow of the American College of Radiology) and carrying on a very intensive didactic activity as Visiting Professor in different American universities.  

Back in Italy in 1971 he brought home his professional and didactic experience and took the title of Professor of Radiology at the University of Milan where he worked from 1987 until 1991.
From 1991 until 2001 he was Full Professor of the Third Radiological Chair at "Sapienza" University of Rome.
The high, valuable experience acquired in the USA has allowed him to teach new methods of Vascular Radiology and to develop new techniques of Interventional Radiology where therapeutic procedures are performed by a radiologist.
He has been the author of over four hundred scientific works and has organized, under the name of CARVAT, thirteen training courses of Radiology regularly attended by the most celebrated European, American and Japanese radiologists.
His active participation as a guest in innumerable international congresses (more than 750) has made him the true representative of the Italian Radiology abroad. He is founder member of SIRM (Italian Society of Medical Radiology), of CIRSE ( European Society of vascular and Interventional Radiology), of SIR (American Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology) and of ESGAR (Society of European Gastroenterology).
He writes for several important international magazines such as Radiology, New England Journal of Medicine, European Radiology, JVIR, Investigative Radiology, CVIR, and others.
He has been honorary member of SIRM since 1982.
He is honorary member of the French, Belgian, Turkish, Costa Rican, Japanese and German Societies of Radiology and member of the leading national and international Radiological Societies. The most important international Scientific Societies have awarded him several gold medals of merit:
Boris Rasdzesky medal (1986) awarded by EAR (European Association of Radiology)

Gold Medal (1994) awarded by the Foyer des Artistes
Gold Medal (1998) awarded at ESGAR Congress (Marbella, Spain)
Gold Medal (1999) awarded at ECR Congress (Vienna)
Gold Medal (1999) awarded by the Western Angiographic & Interventional Society
Gold Medal (1999) awarded by JSAIR (Osaka)
Gold Medal (2000) awarded at CIRSE Congress (Maastricht)
Gold Medal (2006) awarded at SIR Congress (Toronto)