Rafel Tappouni, MD
- Professor, Abdominal, Radiology (Winston-Salem)

Rafel Tappouni, MD
- Professor, Abdominal, Radiology (Winston-Salem)
Research Interests
- Gastrointestinal and Liver Imaging
- Liver Diseases
- Sigmoid Diseases
- Diverticulitis
- Thyroid Diseases
- Artificial Intelligence
- Education
- MB BCh, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine, 1995
- Residency
- Beaumont Hospital, 1996
- Internal Medicine, St. James Hospital, 1998
- Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, 1999
- Fellowship
- Radiology -/Body Imaging, South Thames, 2005
- Board Certifications
- American Board of Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology, Special Competence in Nuclear Radiology
- Positions
- Professor, Abdominal, Radiology (Winston-Salem)
- Departments and Affiliations
- Abdominal, Radiology (Winston-Salem)
Research
- Surgical diverticulitis is not associated with defects in the expression of wound healing genes. Connelly TM, Berg AS, Harris LR, Tappouni R, Brinton D, Deiling S, Koltun WA. Int J Colorectal Dis. 2015 Sep; 30(9):1247-54.
- Risk factors for the development of an incisional hernia after sigmoid resection for diverticulitis: an analysis of 33 patients, operative and disease-associated factors. Connelly TM, Tappouni R, Mathew P, Salgado J, Messaris E. Am Surg. 2015 May; 81(5):492-7.
- Measurement of visceral fat on preoperative computed tomography predicts complications after sigmoid colectomy for diverticular disease. Tappouni R, Mathew P, Connelly TM, Luke F, Messaris E. Am. J. Surg. 2015 Aug; 210(2):285-90.
- Circumportal pancreas: imaging findings in 40 patients. Tappouni R, Perumpillichira J, Sekala M, Hosseinzadeh K, Clark C, Leyendecker J. Abdom Imaging. 2015 Mar; 40(3):521-30.
- Circumportal pancreas: a review of the literature and image findings. Connelly TM, Sakala M, Tappouni R. Surg Radiol Anat. 2015 Jul; 37(5):431-7.