Paolo Zamboni MD

Paolo Zamboni graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery in 1982, Zamboni specialized in General Surgery in 1987, and Vascular Surgery in 1992. In 1992 he obtained a fellowship at the Department of Vascular Surgery of the University of California in San Francisco. From 1993 to 2000 he was visiting professor at the Department of Surgery of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences of Bethesda, Maryland, and from 2008 to 2012 at the Jacobs Institute of Neurology in Buffalo, New York, and at the Neuroscience Department of Harvard University (2010) and Chicago University (2012).

Since 2004 he has been director of the Vascular Disease Center of Ferrara University. In 2008 he announced the discovery of a new venous pathology, called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), and postulated a controversial correlation between this pathology and multiple sclerosis.

During 2010-2011 he was the president of the International Society for Neurovascular Diseases