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Alberto Bizzi

Alberto Bizzi MD

Neurosurgery
Milan, Lombardia, Italy

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Alberto Bizz, MD is the Chief, Neuroradiology Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital, Lombardia, Italy. Alberto Bizzi, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Alberto Bizzi, M.D., is Board Certified in Radiology and Neurology. He completed a residency in Radiology and a fellowship in Neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA. Since 1997 he holds a tenure position at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Besta in Milan. He holds a professorship appointment with the University of Milan to teach Neuroradiology to medical students and radiology residents.

Dr. Bizzi was the leader of the Work Package dedicated to prion diseases within the EuroPOND project from 2016 to 2020, funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020 program), aiming to develop new computational tools for understanding the progression of neurological diseases. The main focus of his research in prion disease is the application of diffusion MRI to diagnose subtypes of sCJD and understand which histopathologic lesions are responsible for the signal abnormalities that are so typical of prion disease. He has been serving as a consultant to the National Prion Disease Surveillance Center (NPDSC) in Cleveland since 2008. At the ISMRM-ESMRMB Joint Annual Meeting in Berlin in 2007, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the lecture "Diffusion Imaging and Pathological Correlation in Prion Diseases". Dr. Bizzi has been invited to give lectures and he has attended several meetings of the CJD Foundation. He is an enthusiastic supporter of this unique meeting that annually gathers clinicians, researchers, and families affected by prion disease.

Since his early training at the National Institute of Health and Johns Hopkins University, he has enjoyed working closely with scientists, MR physicists, and neuropathologists. Dr. Bizzi believes that a close collaboration and effective communication between scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and clinicians is instrumental to accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into real therapies for personalized patient care.
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