Curriculum vitae

• Date: From 1997-2000

Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology General Hospital - Gallarate (Varese) -IT

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• Type of employment:

Orthopaedic-Traumatologist specialist

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• Date: From April 2001 to December 2009

IRCCS Policlinico Universitario San Matteo – Pavia (Scientific Research and Universitary Hospital)

• Main duties and responsibilities:

first level medical director:

- general traumatology and trauma emergency room

- Head of Spine Surgery

• Date: from January 2010 to today:

IRCCS Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio Hospital (formerly IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute until August 2022)

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Scientific Research and Universitary Hospital:

• Type of employment:

orthopedic specialist and traumatologist – spinal surgery

• Main duties and responsibilities:

Head of Orthopedics Department 1

Director of the Spinal Surgery Unit

Adjunct professor in Orthopedics and Traumatology of the State University of Milan (from 2018 to date).EDUCATION AND TRAINING

- Humanistic high school diploma

- School of Medicine - University of Pavia IT

• Qualification obtained:

Degree in Medicine and Surgery (Medical Doctor) “cum laude” with Honours (1992)

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• 1992-1997

• Name and type of educational or training institution:

Specialization School in Orthopedics and Traumatology University of Pavia -IT

• Main subjects / professional skills covered by the study:

- anatomy; general surgery; principles of orthopedic and traumatological surgical technique

• Qualification obtained:

Master Degree in Orthopedics and Traumatology University of Pavia

score of 50/50 “cum Laude)

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• 1997-1998

• training institution for PhD student in Anatomy at the School of Medicine of the University of Pavia

general anatomy; histology and physiology of tissues

• Qualification achieved: PhD Anatomy

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1999-2003

training institution in Vascular Surgery at the School of Medicine of the University of Pavia

• Qualification achieved: Bachelor in Vascular Surgery

• TRAINING:

• Name and type of educational or training institution From 1998 to 2006, residential refresher courses

and spinal surgery fellowships at the following institutes:

• “Twin cities Spine Center” of Minneapolis (USA) directed by Dr. F. Dennis, R.Winter, J.Lonstein

• “Departement De Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique de L’Institut Mutualiste Montsourisè” in

Paris directed by Prof. Christian Mazel

• “Service d’Orthopédie du rachis et de Traumatologie du Sport” of the Hopitaux Universitaires de

Strasbourg directed by Prof. Jean Paul Steib.

• “Department of Orthopedic and Spine Surgery” in Bad Berka Weimar (Germany) Head of Department:

Heiner Boehm

• “Department of Pediatric and Adult Spinal deformity” at Sutter Neuroscience Medical Group of

Sacramento (CA), USA - Head: George D. Picetti III. (second half of 2006)

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Complex spinal surgery techniques (revision and anterior approaches) – deformity surgery – Vascular

Surgery.He is frequently called as a "visiting surgeon" in various Italian hospitals to perform complex revision surgeries on the lumbar and thoracic spine through anterior approaches with minimally invasive and traditional techniques.He has performed more than 8000 major spinal surgeries (of which more than 3000 anterior approaches) of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar tracts for the treatment of spinal trauma, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, canal stenosis, cervical and lumbar degenerative disc disease, metastatic tumors of the vertebrae, infections, segmental instability of the spine. He currently performsall surgical approaches to the spine: posterior and combined anterior-posterior as well. It regularly hosts surgeons (fellows) from every Italian region and from abroad to demonstrate the techniques of anterior

approaches to the thoracic and lumbar spine and revision techniques in adult deformities. He is

frequently called as a speaker at national and international conferences on topics relating to minimally invasive spinal surgery and complex deformity surgery. He is author of scientific publications in international journals and coordinator of ongoing national and international research projects.

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2005 he has coordinated surgical anatomy sessions on cadavers, teaching anterior approach to the spine for fusion (ALIF) techniques to surgeons from various European countries. In 2006-2007 at the Anatomy Laboratory of the "Université René Descartes" of Paris (France) and at the Institute of Anatomy of the University of Vienna he was "tutor" in the theoretical and practical course on cadaver organized by the G.I.S. (Italian Society of Spine Surgery) for spinal surgeons in training.

In January 2009 he won “The First Prize Winner at the 13th International ARGOS (European Association of Research Groups for Spinal Osteosynthesis) Spine Symposium in Paris, with a reading entitled “Long distance anterior revision surgery after TDR. Minimal invasive technique”. He was invited in September 2009 and 2014 to the JPSSSTSS (Japan Society for the study of Surgical Technique for Spine and Spinal nerves) conference for masterly lectures on complex techniques in spinal surgery.

 

In 2014-2015 and 2019/2020 he was professor of minimally invasive techniques in spinal surgery in the "Master of spinal surgery" for Neurosurgeons in the University of Turin. From 2018 he is professor in Orthopedics and Traumatology in the University of Milan teaching:

- Anatomy and biomechanics of the spine

- "minimally invasive approach to the lumbar spine"

- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system

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Specific interests are congenital (deformity) and degenerative pathologies of the spine. The study and practice of anterior approaches to the spine and the development of minimally invasive techniques (anterior surgical approaches to the spine, endoscopic thoracic spine surgery). He is the creator of the minimally invasive technique to expose the lumbar spine through the periumbilical (Keyhole Perinavel) approach and of the reduction technique with a double approach for High grade spondylolisthesis (Sled Technique), both published in International journals.

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He contributed to develop a system patented in the United States and used internationally (US Patent App.15/044,947- 2016) for the planning and intraoperative execution of spinal deformity correction called "Bendini" and contributed to the design and planning of the "Supine ALIF" anterior retractor by Nuvasive.

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Since 2012 he has directed many cadaver labs for “Nuvasive” for teaching fusion techniques with lateral (XLIF) and anterior approaches (ALIF). He has also been a visiting surgeon in many European and EMEA countries as a consultant for different companies for the training of surgeons on anterior and lateral surgical techniques specially in complex operations.

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OTHER:

• Obtained ARGOS (France) Training License in Spinal Surgery

In 2020 he participated and won the competition for the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) of the Ministry of University and Scientific Research (MIUR), obtaining the qualification as Associate University Professor in Orthopedics and Traumatology.

FIRST LANGUAGE ITALIAN

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OTHER LANGUAGES

ENGLISH

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RELATIONAL SKILLS

EASY TO ESTABLISH WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AND COLLABORATION LOW CONFLICT IN

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

HIGH CAPACITY FOR INNOVATION, ACQUISITION OF NEW CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES FOR THE

GROUP. LEADERSHIP SKILLS.

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Since 2019 he has been a member, as a volunteer surgeon who carries out assistance activities at the hospital in the village of Afagnan in the Republic of TOGO, of a group of doctors coordinated by Prof Giuseppe Peretti of the State University of Milan.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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ADVANCED SPINE SURGERY (LEADERSHIP AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL ON THE ANTERIOR APPROACH TO THE THORACO-LUMBAR SPINE AND REVISION SURGERY) WITH THE USE OF VIDEO ASSISTANCE AND DEDICATED SOFTWARE

ORTHOPEDIC AND VASCULAR SURGERY. TRAUMATOLOGY GOOD COMPUTER SKILLS

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Assistant editorial board of European Spine Journal Author and co-author of numerous scientific articles in international journals

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Member of the "SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD" of GKSD Healthcare Management & Colsulting since January 2023.

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Member of the National Association of Italian Knights (UNCI) from which he received a diploma of Honor and Merit. Member of the UNCI Board of Directors of the provincial section of Pavia

Gold Medal for Public Health 2025 awarded by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella on 7/4/2025 at the Quirinale Palace for his original rese