Curriculum Vitae
Born on
January 13th 1945, Ancona, Italy, Vittorio L. Piloni, graduated in Medicine at
the University of Bologna in 1969, received Specialization Certificates in
Diagnostic Radiology (1973) and General Radiology (1979) from the same
University. Staff member as assistant professor of the Department of Radiology
of the Bologna University School and tutor at the Specialization School of
Radiology for a seven-year term (1972-1978), he worked as Vice-Head and subsequently
Head at the Radiology Department
of the National Geriatric Research Institute of Ancona until 1998, when he became Head of the Territorial
Section of the Radiology Department at the Public Health Service of Ancona.
Vittorio L. Piloni m.d. has been studying the application of imaging
techniques — including X-ray, US and more recently MRI— in the diagnosis of
evacuation and voiding dysfunctions since 1973. Worthy of particular note is
the oral presentation and subsequent publication in the Proceeding Book at the
1981 ECR, held in Brussels, of a
paper that is recognized as the first report of dynamic assessment of
evacuation phenomenon by radiological tool in adults. His main research
interest covers the issue of pelvic floor dysfunctions and has led to the
production of more than 150 scientific papers, many of which have been
published by leading international journals.
Congress
speaker in numerous national and international conferences, seminars and
courses throughout the world, currently
Vittorio L. Piloni is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of “Pelviperineology” and “Techniques in
Coloproctology” Journals; he is also member of the Italian Society of Radiology
in Medicine (SIRM), chief of
the Imaging Section of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR) and is
coordinator of a National Guidelines Committee for proper use of Imaging
Techniques in Pelvic Floor Dysfunctions involving five major Italian
(radiological, sonographic, urological, gynaecological, coloproctolgical)
Scientific Societies.