The CCSVI Pioneers : Dr. Roberto Bergamaschi, Director of the MS Center of Pavia (Italy)
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. Patricia Coyle, Stony Brook University Hospital, NY dept. of Neurology
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
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
Claude Franceschi Head of Vascular Laboratories, Saint Joseph Hospital, Paris (FRA)
No doubt the greatest venous haemodynamics expert in the world
Dr. Ellliot Frohman, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Neurology, Dallas, Texas
Giulio Gabbiani Head of the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, Genève (CH)
One of the greatest world experts in vessel wall structure
Roberto Galeotti Head of the Interventional Radiology Section, University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara (ITA)
E. Mark Haacke Director of the The Magnetic Resonance Imaging Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit (USA)
Inventor of the SWI system, i.e. the most sophisticated and advanced system for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
Byung-Boong Lee Chairman Georgetown University School of Medicine,Washington DC (USA)
Chairman of the International Consensus Conference on congenital venous malformations
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
Francesco Mascoli Director of the Vascular Surgery B.U., University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara (ITA)
Joseph Raffetto, MD, Lecturer on Surgery, Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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
Fabrizio Salvi Head of the Centre for Rare and Neuroimmune Diseases, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna (ITA)
He was the first neurologist to work with Prof. Zamboni in the clinical experimentation of “removing the venous obstruction" from MS patients
Franz Schelling Author of several Hypothesis Papers in the 80’s on the etiologic role of the venous system in MS
Dr. Salvatore J.A. Sclafani, M.D. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Department of Radiology
Chief of Radiology at Kings County Hospital Center and Chairman of the Department of Radiology of the Downstate Medical Center
Professor of Radiology, Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine
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
Andrea Stella Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Bologna,Bologna (ITA)
Bianca Weinstock-Guttman Jacobs Neurological Institute, Buffalo (USA)
One of the greatest experts of multiple sclerosis in the pediatric age
Paolo Zamboni Director of the Centre for Vascular Diseases, University of Ferrara, Ferrara (ITA)
He discovered and described CCSVI in MS patients
Robert Zivadinov Director of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, New York State University, Buffalo (USA)
One of the greatest experts in pharmacological trials for multiple sclerosis and efficacy measures using MRI
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Places where CCSVI is being studied and treated : In addition to the BIG NAMES in CCSVI (i.e. Those researchers and doctors who were our pioneers) there is the second wave of doctors, researchers, hospitals and clinics where CCSVI is being studied and treated. Follow this link for more information :
http://csvi-ms.net/en/content/ccsvi-examination