Andrea Falini

Professor Andrea Falini is the Head of the Department of Neuroradiology at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, as well as the Ordinary Professor in Neuroradiology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. In addition, he is the Clinical Research Coordinator of the Neurosciences Division and the Head of the Research Department for Neuroradiology and Functional Neuroradiology at the same institute. He cooperates with the Casa di Cura La Madonnina Clinic.

In 1986, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milan, where he subsequently received a PhD in neurological sciences. In 1993, he completed his specialization in neurology, and four years later he specialized in radiology. Dr. Falini also received training abroad, particularly in 1991 at the Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA, and in 1996 at the Department of Diagnostic Neuroradiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

He began his clinical career in 1991 as an assistant neuroradiologist at the Neuroradiology Service of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan. In the period from 1999 to 2001, he was a Medical Director of the 1st level in the Neuroradiology Service of the same institute. From 2002 to 2011, he held the position of Coordinator of the didactic research sector in the Department of Neuroradiology, and then in the Department of Head and Neck Disorders of the Clinical Institute Ospedale San Raffaele.

Since 2003, he has been the member of the scientific and working committee of the Center of Excellence in High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CERMAC), and since 2007 he has been its Deputy Director. In 2010, he became the member of the Board of Directors of the Neuroradiology Division of the Italian Society for Medical Radiology (SIRM), and from 2014 to 2018, he served as the Chairman of the Neuroradiology Division of the Italian Society of Medical Radiology.

Being the author of over 280 scientific articles published in national and international journals and 21 book chapters, the Professor Andrea Falini is one of the people with a very high Hirsch index (55).