BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Name: Fernando Cesani-Vazquez, M.D.

Title: Associate Professor of Radiology, Director, Section of Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT

EDUCATION/TRAINING

DEGREE

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

M.D.

Fellowship

Residency

1983-1987

1992-1994

1999-2002

Medical School

Nuclear Medicine

Radiology Resident

Publications and Papers: (last 2 years or 5 most recent)

1. Borowski, A.M., Crow, W.N., Hadjipavlou, A.G., Chaljub, G., Mader, J., Cesani, F., vanSonnenberg, E. Interventional

Radiology case conference: Percutaneous management of pyogenic spondylodiskitis. AJR. 170(6): 1587-92; 1998 Jun.

2. Hadjipavlou, A.G., Cesani-Vazquez, F., Villanueva-Meyer, J., Mader, J.T. Necessary, J.T., Crow, W., Jenson, R.E.,

Chaljub, G. The effectiveness of gallium citrate Ga 67 Radionuclide imaging in vertebral osteomyelitis revisited.

American Journal of Orthopedics 27(3): 179-83, 1998 Mar.

3. Tran C, Chica G, Cesani-Vasquez F, and Agraharkar M. Multifocal septic arthritis in dialysis patient. ASAIO Journal,

45 (2) March/April 1999.

4. Chen J., Huang J.C., Shirtiff M., Briscoe E., Ali S., Cesani F., Paar D., and Cloyd M. W. CD4 lymphocytes in the blood

of HIV⁺ individuals migrate rapidly to lymph nodes and bone marrow: support for homing theory of CD4 cell depletion.

Journal of Leukocyte Biology. Vol. 2, Aug. 2002.

5. Chaljub G., Shah, R.K., LaForte R., Ernst R.D., Cesani F., Walser E. M. Radiology Acronyms 2002. Vol. 31:21-26,

Number: 11 November 2002.

Exhibits:

1. Cesani, F., PET/CT Artifacts. Society of Nuclear Medicine, 52^nd Annual Meeting. Fort Worth, TX. March/April 2007.

Other Areas of Interest:

· PET/CT

· Body Imaging

· UTMB, Member, Professional Liability Review

Committee, 2006 - Present

· UTMB, Chairman, Radiology Quality

Management Committee. 2005 -present