Medical School:

• American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Internship:

• University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA (Internal Medicine)

Residency:

• St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, MO (Diagnostic Radiology)

Fellowship:

• University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinic, Minneapolis, MN (Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology Research)
• Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (Vascular & Interventional Radiology)

Certification:

• American Board of Surgery
• American Board of Radiology
• Added Qualifications in Interventional Radiology

Societies, Organizations, and Honors:

• Radiologic Society of North America

• American College of Radiology

• Association of University Radiologists

• Society of Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology

• American Heart Association

Selected Research Interests:

• Effects of radiation on Dermal Microvascular Endothelial Cells 
• Imaging of gene expression following gene therapy
• Stent and stent-graft technology

• Brachytherapy for the prevention of restenosis.

• Central venous access.

• MR angiography

• Doppler sonography.

Selected Recent Publications:
Peer-reviewed papers:

1.       Chung SW, Sharafuddin MJ, Hoballah JJ, Chigurupati R. Midterm Patency Following Atherectomy for Infrainguinal Occlusive Disease. A Word of Caution (Accepted to Annals of Vascular Surgery May 2007)

2.       Sharafuddin MJ, Hoballah JJ, Sun S, Golzarian J, Kresowik TF, Sharp WJ, Corson JD. Long-term Outcome Following Stent-reconstruction of the Aortic Bifurcation and the Role of Geometric Determinants (Accepted to Annals of Vascular Surgery May 2007)

3.       Lu D, Bai E, Liu J,Yu H, Wei Y, Cai Z, Sharafuddin MJ, Jafar Golzarian J, Stolpen A, Saba O, Vannier V, Wang G. Projection-Based Bolus Detection for CT Angiography. J Comput Assist Tomography 2006; 30:846-9

4.       Bai EW, Wang G, Sharafuddin M, Bennett J, Halloran J, Bai H, Vannier M: Feasibility study of an adaptive bolus chasing CT angiography. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (In-Press)

5.       Bai H,  Remersaro S, Bennett J, Halloran J, Meinel J, Bodmer J, Sharafuddin M, Vannier M, Wang, Bai EW. Adaptive Algorithms and Experimental Results of a Bolus Chasing CT Scanner. International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 2005 (In Press).

Books and/or Chapters:

1.  Co-Editor: Vascular Embolotherapy A Comprehensive Approach-Volume 1 (General Principles, Chest, Abdomen and Great Vessels). Golzarian J, Sun S, Sharafuddin MJ, Eds, Springer, 2006

2.  Co-Editor: Vascular Embolotherapy A Comprehensive Approach-Volume 2 (Oncology, Trauma, Gene Therapy, Vascular Malformations and Neck). Golzarian J, Sun S, Sharafuddin MJ, Eds, Springer, 2006.

3. Sharafuddin MJ. Therapeutic Embolization: Basic Principles and Applications. In: Vascular Embolotherapy A Comprehensive Approach (Golzarian J, Sun S, Sharafuddin MJ, Eds.), Springer 2006: 3-13.