Autor: Stefano Telera

Stefano Telera has been a Consultant Neurosurgeon at “Santa Corona” Hospital in Pietra Ligure (SV) since 2001, and at the IRCSS National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena” in Rome since 2002. His main field of practice and research is Cerebral and Spine Neuro-Oncology with 40 articles published in peer-reviewed international journals. He is currently the Director of the Neurosurgical Department of “Regina Elena”. Laura Raus has been jointly responsible for various research programmes on Neuro-Oncology promoted by the Italian National Research Board (CNR), Ministry of Health, and Italian League Against Cancer (AIRC). A Consultant Neurosurgeon at the IRCSS National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena” in Rome, Italy since 1992, with a particular interest in spinal oncological surgery, she holds one international patent and has published 30 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Valerio Pipola specialized in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Bologna. He spent most of the residency program dedicating himself to the study and treatment of spinal pathologies, focusing in particular on primary and metastatic spine tumors and publishing about 20 articles on the topic in international journals. Since March 2021, he is Consultant Surgeon at Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery of Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. Federico De Iure specialized in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Bologna. A Consultant Orthopedics Surgeon at “Maggiore” Hospital in Bologna, Italy since 1996, he has also been Head of the Spine Surgery Unit at the “Maggiore” Hospital in Bologna since 2009. A member of the North America Spine Society (NASS), Italian Society of Vertebral Surgery, AO Spine, and Italian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (SIOT), he is Principal Investigator for the European Study on Vertebral Trauma (SCI-POEM). He has published over 120 articlesin Italian and international journals. Alessandro Gasbarrini specialized in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Bologna. From 1998 to 2009, he   worked   as   Consultant   Surgeon   at “Maggiore” Hospital   in   Bologna, distinguishing   himself   in   the management of musculoskeletal oncology, in particular of spine. From 2009 to 2017 he was responsible for the treatment of metastatic tumor of spine at Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery of Istituto Ortopedico   Rizzoli, becoming   Director   of   the   same   unit   since   January   2018.   He   published   more   than   275 articles in national and international journals