Professor Pietro Mortini is Chief of the Neurosurgery and Stereotactic Radiosurgery Unit at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Full Professor at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery at George Washington University in Washington (USA). After graduating with honours and honorable mention in Medicine and Surgery in 1986, he specialized in Neurosurgery and had several experiences in various neurosurgical departments abroad. He attended the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris. In 1999 he moved to the United States where he obtained an International Fellowship at the Neurological Institute has been Director of the School of Specialization in Neurosurgery of the University Vita Salute San Raffaele and Director of Master degree of the same University and since 2015 he is Visiting Consultant at Ibn Sina Hospital in Kuwait City. He is author of more than 300 publications in scientific journals of great international relevance and serves on the Editorial Board of several journals.
Dr. Filippo Gagliardi graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Verona in 2006, and specialized with honours in Neurosurgery at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan. He also obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from the same university, dealing with research on stem cells in brain tumors, and spent some periods as research fellow at the University Ludwig Maximilian in Munich and in the US at the George Washington University. He is now working as a consultant neurosurgeon at the Neurosurgery Department of the San Raffaele Hospital and has obtained a teaching qualification in the same discipline. He is currently responsible for more than 10 international and national research projects, admitted for funding by public and private entities. He has been invited as a member of the scientific committee in numerous international courses and meetings in Europe, the United States and Australia.Dr. Gagliardi authored more than 100 publications in international journals and more than 30 chapters of Neurosurgery textbooks, published by international publishers. In 2019 he published a book entitled "Operative cranial neurosurgical anatomy" distributed worldwide.