Graduated in Medicine cum laude at the University of Bari, in 2009 he completed his Residency in Neurosurgery in the same University.
In 2004 and 2008, he received 2 international awards for a study about the effects of the combined temozolomide/carmustine treatment in the therapeutic algorithm of glioblastomas and, again, for a pilot study about the Cine Phase-Contrast MRI as a predictive parameter of outcome in patients with syringomyelia associated with Chiari 1 malformation.
In 2007 he was co-author of an International Research Project (PRI) about the high-frequency stimulation subthalamic nucleus of Luys for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
In 2009, he was Attending Neurosurgeon at Hospital “G. Rummo”, Benevento, Italy, and, in 2010, he moved to the Neurosurgery Unit of San Salvatore City Hospital, L'Aquila, Italy, under the Direction of Prof. R. J. Galzio who is still today his mentor.
He is Specialist Registrar at the General Medical Council UK since 2010 and he is currently Attending Neurosurgeon at the Neurosurgery Unit of the IRCCS Foundation Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
He is Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery f at the University of Pavia and, since 2015, professor of the Course titled “Treatment of Neurosurgical Pathologies in the Intensive Care Unit” within the Scientific-Disciplinary Sector MED/27 Neurosurgery in the First Level Master in Clinical Nursing, Critical and Emergency Area at the University of L'Aquila.
He has also been involved as Tutor and Lab faculty in several editions of the pionieristic and prestigious “Italian Course of Applied Microneurosurgery” which has been historically organized by Prof. M. Tschabitscher and Prof. R. J. Galzio.
He is regularly in the Lab Faculty of International Anatomical Dissection Courses on cadavers and has taken part in more than 40 Hands-On Cerebral and Skull Base Microneurosurgical Anatomy courses applied to trans-cranial and endoscopic approaches for the treatment of vascular and neoplastic lesions.
He has been speaker in more than 80 National and International Congresses and he is author of 32 scientific publications, of which 12 indexed, 3 book chapters and 1 monography.
He performed more than 1600 neurosurgical procedures, about 650 of which as first surgeon, mainly in the field of skull base vascular and neoplastic pathology and intra and extra-axial brain tumors.
He is Reviewer of 7 indexed scientific journals of international relevance in the field of Neurosurgery.
Within his PhD Course in “Tissues and Organs Transplantation and Cellular Therapies” D.E.O.T., University of Bari, Italy, he is currently first investigator of the research projects titled “Neuroglial Transdifferentiation of Xenogenic Staminal Cells Transplant in the Experimental Treatment of Brain and Spinal Cord Damages” and “Clinical and Histological Evaluation of Minimal Invasive Osteotomies with Piezoelectric Surgery”.
His main fields of interest and research are microneurosurgical anatomy applied to the approaches of skull base lesions and intra-axial brain tumors in eloquent areas, aneurysms and cerebral vascular malfomations, cerebral revascularization techniques and the employment of the stem cells in neuroregenerative medicine.

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