Dr. Spampinato graduated from medical school at the Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. She completed a Diagnostic Radiology residency at the Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the intramural program at the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. She completed a Neuroradiology fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. She joined the Radiology faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina in November 2005.