Bio
Dr. Rania Farouk El Sayed is a Lecturer of Radiology in Department of Radiology Cairo University in Egypt. She earned her undergraduate degree and her medical degree from Cairo University. After residency training at Cairo University, she joined the Faculty of Medicine there.
Her expertise is in pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), anorectal malformation, conjoined twins ,perineal trauma and perianal Fistula . She has published multiple journal articles “Original Research” “Review Article” “Commentary Article” on MRI in PFD and contributed a chapter on female PFD in the textbook “Imaging in Genitourinary Medicine: A Problem-Oriented Approach, published by John Wiley & Sons UK 2009 ”. She had Authored cases on PFD to AMIRSYS on 2009. She is a contributor to the textbook ”Diagnostic Imaging Gynaecology” published by Elsevier / Amirsys 2015 . In addition, she is a reviewer for several US and European journals related to radiology, including the American Journal of Roentgenology, Radiology, and the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.She has taught about radiology of the pelvic floor at professional meetings in Scotland, Croatia, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, and Austria. Most recently, she was a faculty member of the 46th International Diagnostic Course in Davos, Switzerland April 2014. She has served as the founder and chairperson of the Pelvic Floor Group of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) from 2005 through 2014.
In 2005, she was awarded first prize at the 12th ESUR for her lecture in Slovenia on the urethral support system, in which she reported having confirmed, anatomically and histologically and with the use of MRI , the identity of a previously unknown urethral ligament; “Dissection, Histology, and MRI of Female Cadavers and MRI of Healthy Nulliparous Women to Define the Ligaments Supporting the Urethra. AJR 2007; 189: 2007
