There are a few MS physicians that have made a name for themselves for the drugs they help developed or the books they wrote.  Others are more notorious for the controversies they started than for the research they actually did.  Of this group of Multiple Sclerosis physicians, perhaps the most well known that is still alive is Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni, a vascular surgeon and professor from the University of Ferrara, Italy.  Unlike some physicians that intentionally enter the medical profession with the intent of working with or researching Multiple Sclerosis, physicians like Dr. Zamboni gain their notoriety accidently.

 

Some MS physicians study the disease out of a personal involvement

 

This was the case with Dr. Zamboni.  His wife Elena Ravalli was diagnosed with MS when she was 37 years old in 1995.  A vascular surgeon at the time, by his own admission it was the love for …