speaker

Rania Farouk El Sayed

MD

Medicine

Radiology

Dr. Rania Farouk El Sayed is a professor in the Radiodiagnosis Department of Cairo University in Egypt and is currently the head of "The Cairo University MR Pelvic Floor Centre of Excellency and Research Lab ". After residency training at Cairo University, she joined the Faculty of Medicine there. Her expertise is in pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), anorectal malformation, perineal trauma, and perianal Fistula.

She is the founder of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology “Pelvic Floor MRI working group” in 2007. Has been the Chairwoman of this working group from 2007 to 2014 and has been re-elected from 2016 to 2018. She has published multiple journal articles on MRI in PFD of utmost importance are the ESUR-ESGAR guidelines of MR imaging of the pelvic floor as well as the SAR DFP Recommendations. She contributed to the 2nd and 3rd editions of Diagnostic Imaging Gynecology in 2014 and 2021. In addition, she is a reviewer for several US and European journals related to radiology, including the AJR, Radiology, and European Radiology.

Dr. El Sayed has taught about the 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. 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.