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Giulio Zuccoli, MD

Job Title Section Chief, Section of Neuroradiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Job Title Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Job Title Expert Consultant, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies
Department of Pediatric Radiology
4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 2
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-692-5032 Phone
412-692-6929 Fax
Email zuccolig@upmc.edu

Education and Training

Medical School:

University of Parma and University of Bologna, Italy

Residency:

University of Parma, Italy

Fellowship:

Hospital Clinic I Provincial, University of Barcelona, Spain

Memberships

  • Radiological Society of North America
  • European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR) Associate Member

Awards

  • At the age of 11, Honorable Mention Award, National Poetry Prize, Lions Club, Milano Duomo, Italy
  • RSNA 2009 Cum Laude Award

Publications

  • Fink EL, Panigrahy A, Clark RSB, Fitz CR, Landsittel D, Kochanek P M, Zuccoli G. Regional Brain injury on Conventional and Diffusion Weighted MRI is Associated with Outcome after Pediatric Cardiac Arrest. Neurocritical Care, 2012 Apr 26. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Zuccoli G, Sreedher G. Reversible cytotoxic edema in TPN-related hepatic encephalopathy. Journal of Neuroimaging 2012 Jan 24. doi: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2011.00678.x. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Nardone R, De Blasi P, Zuccoli G, Tezzon F, Golaszewski S, Trinka. Transient beneficial effects of excitatory theta burst stimulation in a patient with phonological agraphia after left supramarginal gyrus infarction. Brain Lang. 2012 Mar;120(3):422-6. Epub 2012 Jan 31.
  • Osorio MJ, Bhatia P, Zuccoli G, Holder D. Unusual headaches. Neurology. 2011 Oct 25;77(17):1649-52.
  • Zuccoli G, Pipitone N, Haldipur A, Brown RD Jr, Hunder G, Salvarani C. Imaging findings in primary central nervous system vasculitis. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2011 Jan-Feb;29 (1 Suppl 64):S104-9. Epub 2011 May 11.
  • Nardone R, Golaszewski S, Trinka E, Tezzon F, Zuccoli G. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Preceding Measles Exanthema. J Child Neurol. 2011 Jul 19. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Sreedher G, Panigrahy A, Ramos-Martínez SY, Abdel-Hamid HZ, Zuccoli G. Brachium Pontis Stroke Revealing Neurofibromatosis Type-2. J Neuroimaging. 2011 Jun 23. doi: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2011.00609.x. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Zuccoli G, Panigrahy A, Bailey A, Fitz C. Redifining the Guillain-Barré spectrum in children: neuroimaging findings of cranial nerve involvement. AJNR American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2011. Published 3 February 2011, 10.3174/ajnr.A2358.
Selected book chapter
The Restricted Ketogenic Diet: An Alternative Treatment Strategy for Glioblastoma Multiforme. Thomas N. Seyfried, Purna Mukherjee,1 Miriam Kalamian and Giulio Zuccoli. In Cambridge Research Center, Volume 2, Issue 1, Treatment Strategies – Oncology. USA edition, published online, 2011.

Research Interests

  • Metabolic and inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system
  • Brain and spine trauma
  • Stroke
  • Brain tumors
  • Non-accidental trauma (child abuse)

Active Research Projects / Grants

During the last few years Dr. Zuccoli’s researches highlighted new insights on Vitamin B1 deficiencies in adult and children and on metabolic management of cancer. Dr. Zuccoli also has published more than 65 refereed articles and presented more than 90 scientific presentations.

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May 17, 2012
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