This is a list of many of the people involved in working with CCSVI for patients with MS.
- Francesco Mascoli
- Director of the Vascular Surgery B.U., University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara
- Fabrizio Salvi
- Head of the Centre for Rare and Neuroimmune Diseases, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna
He was the first neurologist to work with Prof. Zamboni in the clinical experimentation of ‘removing the venous obstruction’ from MS patients - Andrea Stella
- Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Bologna,Bologna
- Paolo Zamboni
- Director of the Centre for Vascular Diseases, University of Ferrara, Ferrara
He discovered and described CCSVI in MS patients
Relevant Links:- Research
- Dr. Roberto Bergamaschi
- Director of the MS Center of Pavia
- Roberto Galeotti
- Head of the Interventional Radiology Section, University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara
- Dr. Alex Rauscher & Dr. Anthony Traboulsee
- UBC Study – Vancouver BC Canada
Relevant links:- http://www.med.ubc.ca/giving/MS_CCSVI_research.htm
- http://www.mriresearch.ubc.ca/content/news/news-3T.php
- Steven R. Brenner, MD
- Associate Professor Department of Neurology & Psychiatry, St Louis University School of Medicine
Dr. Brenner responded favorably via an eletter response to Dr. Zamboni’s paper ‘Chronic cerebral venous insufficiency in patients with multiple sclerosis’ - Dr. John Cooke, MD, PHD
- Professor of cardiovascular medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Dr. Michael Dake
- Chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Stanford University School Of Medicine, Stanford (USA)
He was the first surgeon to accept Prof. Paolo Zamboni’s suggestion to operate on stenosis associated with CCSVI
Relevant links:- Profile
- Dr. Patricia Coyle
- Stony Brook University Hospital, NY dept. of Neurology
- Bianca Weinstock-Guttman
- Jacobs Neurological Institute, Buffalo, NY
One of the greatest experts of multiple sclerosis in the pediatric age - Robert Zivadinov
- Director of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, New York State University, Buffalo, NY
One of the greatest experts in pharmacological trials for multiple sclerosis and efficacy measures using MRI
Relevant Links:- CTEVD Study
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Gary Cutter
- Professor of Biostatistics and Head of the Section on Research Methods and Clinical Trials, Birmingham, University of Alabama, USA
Gary Cutter developed an outcome measure for motor and cognitive efficiency in multiple sclerosis known as MSFC. He is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama - Joseph Raffetto, MD
- Lecturer on Surgery, Harvard University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- E. Mark Haacke
- Director of the The Magnetic Resonance Imaging Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit
Inventor of the SWI system, i.e. the most sophisticated and advanced system for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
Relevant links:- SWI-MRI
- MRI Imaging
- Byung-Boong Lee
- Chairman Georgetown University School of Medicine,Washington DC (USA)
Chairman of the International Consensus Conference on congenital venous malformations - Prof. Juergen Reichenbach, PhD
- Inst. fur Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie, Universitatsklinikum Jena
MRT-Gebaude Am Steiger, Philosophenweg 3, D-07743 Jena, GERMANY
He is working with Prof. M. Haacke - Dr. Thomas J. Vogl
- Goethe university of Frankfurt a.m. Germany.
E-mail: t.vogl@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Phone: +49(069) 6301-7277 - Dr. Marian Simka
- Department of Angiology, Pszczyna, Poland
Dr. Simka has written a paper on how to perform doppler sonography on the extracranial veins of MS patients
Dr. Simka is also imaging and stenting MS patients from all over Europe
Relevant links:- Homepage
- MS Research Paper
- Dr N. Med. Tomasz Ludyga
- Specialist of vascular surgery, specialist of general surgery, specialist angiology, EUROMEDIC, Katowice, Poland
Dr. Ludgya works with Dr. Marian Simka perfoming CCSVI stenting procedure in Katowice, Poland - Claude Franceschi
- Head of Vascular Laboratories, Saint Joseph Hospital, Paris
No doubt the greatest venous haemodynamics expert in the world - Giulio Gabbiani
- Head of the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Medical Universitaire, Geneva
One of the greatest world experts in vessel wall structure
