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Marco Francone, MD, PhD

Radiology Full Professorr
S. Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Lazio, Italy

Marco Francone MD, PhD, MsC

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Marco Francone is Full Professor of Radiology and Director of residency programme at Humanitas University in Milan (Italy).
He has been frequently invited since ten years to lecture at major radiological and cardiological conferences such as ESOR, SCMR, ESCR, CIRSE, RSNA, and ECR.
He served at cardiac subcommittee chairman at ECR 2020 after having been consecutively involved as subcommittee member and was involved in the organization of the RTF quiz in the last two editions of the congress.
At RSNA he lectured at refresher courses for the last five consecutive years, moreover he was Radiographics panelist and member of the Educational Exhibit Awards committee.
His research is dedicated to cardiovascular imaging with CT and MR with specific focus on coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction and cardiomyopathies. He authored more than 200 indexed papers with an impact factor higher than 600. He chairs the guidelines committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology and has previously been part of the board of Trustee of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and acted as Past President Italian College of Cardiac Radiology.
Marco Francone is active in national and international imaging societies. He is member of the Editorial Boards of European Radiology (as cardiac imaging section chief), European Journal of Radiology, International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, and Radiologia Medica.
Marco Francone seeks to advance cardiovascular imaging technology and to educate physicians in its use with the ultimate goal to provide optimal outcome for our patients. He is a strong advocate of a fruitful cooperation between Radiologists, Cardiologists and Physicists towards this goal.


Marco Francone MD, PhD
Radiology Full Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Humanitas University
Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4 - 20072 Pieve Emanuele (Milano) Italy

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