Treatment in Milan (Italy)

Dr. Marco Grimaldi is the Diagnostic Neuroradiology Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital.

Medical areas of interest:

• magnetic resonance
• computed tomography
• angiography of the central nervous system, brain and spine
• study of the brachial plexus
• functional neuroradiology, in particular, study of cerebral perfusion for perfusion CT related to problems in an emergency regime
• spine dimorphism, in particular of the paediatric age and in rare diseases

He has developed full diagnostic, organizational and managerial autonomy of any problem in outpatient, hospital and emergency neuroradiology.

Research areas of interest:

• Functional imaging studies on coma
• Diagnosis and development of prognostic algorithms
• Research and development, even experimental, of new applications related to technological developments (research on new protocols for the use of the Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT), for the use of perfusion CT in vascular and emergency environments finally, study of the trachea in patients at risk of anesthesiology).

Previous experience:

1990 – 2012 Neuroradiologist at Hospital of San Gerardo in Monza, Italy

He was the Director on highly specialised activities related to functional neuroradiology. 

He worked in diagnostic autonomy, organization and management of any problem within neuroradiological outpatient, inpatient and emergency context. 

He is particularly interested in the field of functional neuroradiology, in research and experimental development of new applications also tied to technological developments and creation of new protocols for use of MDCT (use of CT perfusion imaging in the field of vascular and urgency. He was involved in the study of the trachea in patients at high anaesthetic risk), in paediatric radiology with particular reference to diagnosis and clinical management of rare diseases (consultant in the Outpatient Unit for metabolic diseases and in the Outpatient Unit for rare and genetic diseases at the Hospital). He is also interested in the study of problems related to the craniocervical junction.

Teaching experience: 

From 2002 to 2012 he has been a professor at Milano-Bicocca University of Milan.

From 2002 to 2012 : Professor of the courses "Technique and diagnostics for images I", "Technique and diagnostics for images II" and "Semeiotics neuroradiological CT" for the degree in Medical Radiology for Images and Radiotherapy.
From 2003 to 2012: Professor of the course "Functional Brain Diagnostics" for the Degree in Physiotherapy. 
From 2003 to 2012: Professor for the Degree Course in Neurotherapy and psychomotricity of the developmental age.
From 2006 to 2009: Lecturer at the School of Specialization in Radiodiagnostics.

Prof. Dr. Maria Grazia Bordoni is the Vascular Surgery Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital. She has graduated at Università degli Studi of Milan and specialised as a vascular surgeon and since then she has been interested in vascular surgery in all its aspects.

Medical areas of interest:

Her main specialties are endovascular surgery and treatment of the large vessels of the abdomen and thorax (aorta, thoracic cavity), carotid surgery, endovascular and surgical treatments for arteries of the lower limbs, preparation of complex vascular access in hemodialysis, phlebology, diagnosis and treatment of vascular malformations. 

Research areas of interest: 

When it comes to the research activity, Dr. Bordoni is mainly dealing with early treatment of acute ischemic strokes and stimulation of the carotid baroreceptors in patients with heart failure. Prof. Bordoni has performed more than 2000 surgeries as first surgeon in her Humanitas career. 

Since 2005, she is also Milan University professor: she teaches General Surgery and focuses on the topic of vascular and surgical emergencies.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=bordoni+mg

Dr. Maurizio Fornari is the Head of the Neurosurgery Unit in Humanitas Research Hospital.

After his specialization in neurosurgery in 1979 at the University of Milan, Dr. Fornari has followed courses in neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (USA) and advanced courses in Spinal Surgery and skull base at the Center St. Louis (USA) and the Center of Albuquerque (USA).

Dr. Fornari specializes in the treatment of all major diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, from the compression of the spinal nerves (lumbar and cervical disc hernias, stenosis of the cervical canal, instability of the spine, spinal cord tumors), primary and secondary brain tumors, to congenital malformations of the central nervous system. Dr. Fornari is a recognized leader in the development of computer assisted spine surgery.

Dr. Fornari is a recognized leader in the development of minimally invasive surgery, who among the first has adopted bloodless methods such as micro decompression with unilateral approach for the treatment of lumbar stenosis instead of the much more invasive laminectomy.

Another dreaded disease, sometimes associated with stenosis or lumbar spondylolisthesis, which Dr. Fornari is approaching for quite a long time with the help of spinal navigation systems and intraoperative CT scan, which helps the work of the surgeon during the intervention, reducing invasiveness and risks for the patient, represent lumbar instability.

He and his team perform more than 1.300 surgeries a year, and he has one of the most important case studies in the world (data from a few years ago published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: 
http://thejns.org/action/doSearch?displaySummary=false&AllField=maurizio+fornari.) 

Since 2012, he teaches at the University of Milan. He is also Assistant Editor of "Advanced Technology in Neurosurgery" published by Sprinter Verlag Berlin Heldelberg (1988).

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=fornari%m

Prof. Enrico Arnaldi is the Arthroscopic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Knee Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital. 
He was the medical apprentice of Dr. Lorenzo Spotorno (a master and pioneer in prosthetic surgery). Since 1984, he has dedicated himself to arthroscopic knee surgery and later on shoulder surgery.

Medical areas of interest: He is specialized in degenerative and post-traumatic shoulder diseases (rotator cuff tendon injuries, glenomeral arthrosis, shoulder instability) and related surgical treatments, arthroscopic (tendon repairs, capsuloplasty, etc.) and open (latarjet stabilization, orthoprosthesis, etc.). 
He also deals with degenerative and post traumatic knee pathologies, with particular attention to the osteoarthritis of the knee (primitive or secondary), the post-traumatic complex capsule-ligamentous instabilities, the lesions of the cruciate ligaments, meniscus and cartilage, and open-air surgical treatments (such as corrective osteotomies, first implant orthoprosthesis and revisions) and arthroscopic (meniscectomies and meniscal sutures, meniscal transplants, ACL reconstruction, treatment of focal cartilage lesions). 

Research areas of interest:
There are many research interests, ranging from biotechnology to meniscal transplants and osteochondral grafts, from allogeneic grafts for reviews from failures of ligamentous reconstruction to patella stabilization.

He practiced his specialty in the US in some of the world-renowned medical institutions along with internationally famous doctors: the University of Pittsburgh (Dr. Freddie Fu, Dr. Harner, Dr. Savio Lee Wo), the Intermountain Hospital in Salt Lake City (Dr. Rosemberg, Dr. Paulos), Dr. E. Wolf (San Francisco), Dr. Helman and Dr. Morrison (Los Angeles), Dr. Nottage, Dr. Esch (San Diego), Dr. Steadman and Dr. Hawkins (Vail), Dr. P. Fowler (London Ontario Canada), and J. P. Warner in Boston University.

He has performed more than 10,000 arthroscopic knee surgeries and approximately 1,200 prosthetic reconstruction of the knee. He has always been very involved in the research works in the area of new biotechnologies, meniscal and osteochondral transplantation, allogeneic grafts for revisions by failures of ligament reconstructions, stabilization of the patella.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=arnaldi+enrico

Prof. Michele Ciccarelli is the Pneumology Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital.

He has acquired significant experience in managing infectious pneumonias, treating about 300 cases annually. 

He has also acquired a wide experience in managing respiratory allergies of bronchial asthma and COPD with over 500 patients followed in these pathologies.

Previous experience:

1988-1995 Hospital of Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Visiting doctor at the Centre for High Specialisation in Allergology and Clinical Immunology with full-time specialisation in the Department of Pneumology Piazza.

Other medical areas of interest:

• Obstructive pathology of the airways
• Pulmonary infectivity
• Bronchoscopy techniques
• Pulmonary oncology
• Interstitial pneumopathies
• Non-invasive ventilator therapy
• Sleep medicine
• Pneumopathies in the course of systemic diseases

Research areas of interest:

• Lung oncology
• Community and hospital acquired pneumonia
• Bronchial asthma
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Teaching experience: Medicine and Surgery Professor at “Università degli Studi” of Milan.

Scientific activities: Medicine and Surgery Professor at “Associazione Italiana Pneumologi Ospedalieri” (AIPO).

Prof. Raffaello Furlan is the Unit Director of the Internal Medicine Center Unit.

Since 1990 he has been focusing his clinical interests on hypotensive phenomena and episodes of loss of consciousness, organizing and developing a functional multidisciplinary unit called "Syncope and Posture Disorders Unit", as part of the Internal Medicine Unit where he worked (currently Medical Clinic, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, and in the past L. Sacco Hospital, Milan, and Bolognini Hospital, Bergamo). 

This unit is composed of a neurologist, an endocrinologist, a cardiologist and a psychiatrist, in accordance with clinical-care facilitated protocols. Thanks to this organizational structure, and thanks to the use a special clinical laboratory, more than 1600 tilt tests have been carried out, together with intensive work with outpatients and inpatients, which led to the care of patients also from other regions in Italy and abroad (France, Switzerland, Australia, Comoros Islands and United States).

The Syncope and Posture Disorders Unit is currently part of a worldwide network of centres that refer to the National Dysautonomia Research Foundation, an American non-profit foundation providing advice and support to patients with different types of dysautonomia and financing international research protocols on the subject.  

Research areas of interest:

From 1977 to 1984, he took an active part in studies conducted on experimental models, to clarify the nervous mechanisms of cardiac, cardio-vascular and vascular reflexes involved in the regulation of blood pressure and in the genesis of cardiac pain. He also applied techniques of direct recording of sympathetic nerve activity and spectral analysis to the study of cardiovascular variability in the physiological, pathophysiologic and pathological  fields, studying the changes in the nervous control of the cardiovascular system during postural changes, physical training, neuromediated syncope in patients suffering from dysutopianism (Pure Autonomic Failure), and in subjects with Chronic Orthostatic Intolerance, Fibromyalgia, Esophageal Reflux Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and Parkinson’s disease. 

Since January 2004, the Syncope Unit directed by Prof. Furlan has conceived, realized and coordinated some observational multicentric studies aimed at studying the short-term prognosis of syncope, to evaluate the effectiveness of risk scales in the emergency room and the role of clinical judgement (steps studies, Short Term Prognosis of Syncope). The Syncope Unit was also an active part of EGSYS2 and other multicenter syncope studies. Currently, a study is underway to assess the effects of bilateral plantar stimulation on the path and neurovegetative profile of cardiovascular regulation in Parkinson’s disease. It involves 10 hospitals sponsored by the Lombardy region on syncope costs and a multicentric European study on the use of neuronal networks for syncope management in the emergency room.

Previous experience:

2007-2012 Hospital, Seriate, Italy
Director of Internal Medicine Unit, Outpatients and Day Hospital for medicine. 
1982-2007 Hospital, Milan, Italy
• Hospital assistant of Internal Medicine (Medicine II) until 1990. During this period, he was directly responsible for 8 beds in this Department and carried out regular call duties in the A&E Department. He was also involved in invasive measurements of blood pressure.

• Co-manager assistant in Internal Medicine (Medicine II; from February 1990). During this period, he was responsible for 12-18 beds of the Medicine Department, coordinating the work of two assistants. From January 2002 to January 2005 he had the title of "High Specialisation" in the field of disorders from orthostatic intolerance. From January 2005 he was responsible for the simple structure "Unit for Syncopes and Posture Disorders". 
• Following the incorporation process of Italian hospitals (as from 1996), he was involved in programmes for the ottimization of efficiency and cost reduction of the Medicine II Department and he had an active part in the discussion of the annual budget from 1998. He was responsible for the Day Hospital in Medicine II until January 2005. 

• He followed the course for Directors of Complex Operative Units, hospital area, edition UBMDSCO0201, held at the School of Management in Health of the Lombardy Region (I.Re.F.) in 2002, discussing the final project entitled "Evaluation of diagnostic performance and cost analysis of tilt test in the diagnosis of syncopal episodes", obtaining the resulting certification.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=furlan r

Prof. Simona Marcheselli has graduated at the University of Pavia and carried out her specialisation in neuro-pathophysiology. She is the Emergency Neurology and Stroke Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital.

She is specialised in the treatment and prevention of cerebrovascular diseases. Her main specialties are Cerebral-vascular diseases, brain tumors, epilepsy, and headaches. Prof. Simona Marcheselli treats both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in the acute phase and its complications. Specific areas of interest are those related to secondary and primary prevention of cerebrovascular disease and post-stroke epilepsy.

She is also a professor at the nursing school of Humanitas University.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=marcheselli%s

Prof. Romano Lutman is the Head Oncological and interventional radiology Unit.

Medical areas of interest: 
diagnostic and interventional oncology, in particular linked to percutaneous imaging-guided procedures.
He has performed over 3000 CT guided lung biopsies and numerous international trials on anticancer drugs.

Research areas of interest: 
advanced oncological diagnostics. Percutaneous minimally invasive imaging-guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in oncology.

Previous experience:  
- 1991-1996 Orthopaedic Institute of Gaetano Pini, Italy
Assistant Physiatrist
- 1991-1991 Hospital of the Piemonte region , Italy
Specialist doctor in sports medicine

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=lutman r

Dr. Paolo Omodei is the Unit Director of the Autonomous section of Clinical Gastroenterology.

He graduated with honors in the academic year 1988-89 at the Università degli studi of Milan. He specialized in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy in 1994. Winner of the competition for PhD in Research in Clinical Methodology in the academic year 1994-95. In 1996 he won the public competition for Assistant at the Gastroenterology Service of the Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital in Milan. He held this post until June 1997. From 1997 to 1999 he held the position of Assistant at the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit of Humanitas Clinical Institute, directed by prof. Alberto Malesci. From 2000 to 2006, he held the position of Assistant of the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit of the Humanitas Clinical Institute. Since 2006 he has been Head of the Section of Emergency Gastroenterology and Head of Gastroenterology at the Humanitas Clinical Institute. He is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan.

1996-1997 Hospital of Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Assistant in the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Services directed by Prof. Raffaele Arcidiacono

1987-1996 Polyclinic Hospital, Milan, Italy
Specialising in Gastroenterology in the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy service of the Institute of Internal Medicine directed by Prof. Nicola Dioguardi.
Volunteer medical specialist in the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy service in the Institute of Internal Medicine directed by Prof. Nicola Dioguardi.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Omodei P

Born in 1955, Prof. Paolo Emanuele Levi Setti graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan School of Medicine in 1982 and specialized in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the same University in 1988.

At the beginning of his career he was involved in the early developments of ultrasound imaging in obstetrics and gynaecology and more recently in the new applications of transvaginal and colour flow technology. From 1977 to 1982 microsurgery and endoscopy were his main interest in the investigation and treatment of female infertility.

Surgical applications in the animal model of new approaches to pelvic pathology were the first studies he published in literature. From 1985 to 1989 fetal blood sampling and prenatal diagnosis had a main role in his interest in research development. In this period, he participated in many published studies in this research area and one of the greatest experiences in the world was reported in the field of echographic surgery.

Results of in vitro fertilization, implantation, intrauterine embryo transfer, assisted reproduction in sexually transmitted diseases, evaluation of the uterine cavity in infertile patients and cryopreservation, are the main aspects of his present day scientific interest. In 1984, together with a group of colleagues, he founded one of the first centres in Italy operating in assisted reproduction. From 1988 to 1996 Prof. Levi Setti chaired the Infertility and Assisted Reproduction Unit of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology – S. Paolo Biomedical Institute – University of Milan School of Italy operating in assisted reproduction. 

From 1989 to 1996 he coordinated the first European centre for assisted reproduction for HIV serodiscordant couples. Since 1994 he is a visiting lecturer at the 1st postgraduate School in Obstetrics and Gynecology and he is a visiting lecturer in the graduate course of Obstetrics and Gynaecology – University of Milan, School of Medicine.
Involved since the earliest development of endoscopy in gynaecology, he followed the evolution of this surgical approach performing, in over 25 years of activity, more than 15.000 procedures and mentoring an impressive number of fellows in this area. His Department has run for many years one of the largest ART programs in our country and in Europe. His research interest has, over the last few years, focused on the mechanisms of implantation, on the preservation of female and male fertility and on the complications and outcome of assisted reproduction. His Department performed the probably larger number of oocyte’s freezing procedures in infertile patients in Europe and is now a recognised expert in fertility preservation in oncological and fertility deferring patients. He has been the scientific organizer of several international meetings and training courses in Reproductive Medicine. 

Member of many international institutions in the field of reproductive medicine (American Society for Reproductive Medicine, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, International Society for Fertility Preservation), he was elected President of the Italian Fertility and Sterility Society (SIFES e MR) onto the board in 1999 and in 2003 and for two mandates (2009-2001 and 2011-2013). 

He is the author of more than 100 published articles, reviews and chapters in books. 

From 2004 Prof. Levi Setti collaborates with the Italian Ministry of Health in revising data of the National Medically Assisted Reproduction Register. In December 2010 he was nominated scientific coordinator of an experimental project for an ART Network in Lombardy County. Since 1996 Prof. Levi Setti works at the Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan and is currently chair of the Department of Gynaecology and heads the Division of Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine. In May 2011 he was appointed, for the period July 2011- June 2016, as Adjunct Professor at Yale University, School of Medicine. In June 2013 he supervised and is actually personally directing the Humanitas Fertility Center, where over 3.500 ART procures are performed annually.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=levi sett

Dr. Paola Maria Magnoni has graduated in general medicine and radiodiagnostics at Università degli Studi of Milan and is the Ultrasound Unit Director of Humanitas Research Hospital, where she dedicates especial attention to internal, oncological, breast, endocrinology and loop ultrasound, performing over 5000 examinations of which 500 needle biopsy annually.

Medical areas of interest: Ultrasound in all its fields of use, especially:

Diagnostic ultrasound: internal, oncological, intestinal loops, endocrinology.

Interventional ultrasound: superficial needle biopsies of areas such as breast, thyroid, soft parts; and deep needle biopsies of areas such as abdominal organs, liver, kidney pancreas; retroperitoneum; paracentesis, thoracentesis, drainage and inflections.

Research areas of interest: sarcomas, early diagnosis in oncological pathologies, iconographic study of IBD, senology, endocrinology.

Dr. Nunzio Paolo Nuzzi has graduated at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) and carried out his specialisation in neuroradiology. He is the Unit director of Interventional radiology at Humanitas Research Hospital.

Medical areas of interest: interventional neuroradiology, cerebrovascular diseases, ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke, brain aneurysms, brain and spinal arteriovenous malformations and arterial-venous fistulas (AVF), intracranial stenosis and neck stenosis.

Research areas of interest: new biomedical devices for the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Clinical research on minimally invasive endovascular procedures.

Prof. Eduardo Nobile Orazio is the Neurology Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital. 

His main areas of interest and specialisation are: diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular diseases, in particular polyneuropathies, also including those of immunological origin such as Guillain Barré Syndrome (GBS) and the different clinical variants, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN), and the polyneuropathies associated with monoclonal gammopathy, the neuropathies and paraneoplastic neuronopathies and neuropathies in the course of haematologic diseases and from chemotherapy. 

Immunological diagnosis of autoimmune diseases of the peripheral and central nervous system, diagnosis and treatment of motor neurone disease with suspected paraneoplastic or immune genesis, diagnosis and treatment of Multiple Sclerosis and other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system such as autoimmune and paraneoplastic encephalitis, diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and extrapyramidal diseases.

His areas of research are clinical and immunological diagnosis and treatment of the immune mediated polyneuropathies and, in particular, GBS, CIDP, MMN and polyneuropathy associated with monoclonal gammopathy including POEMS.

Prof. Eduardo Nobile Orazio has written over 230 scientific publications, held more than 85 university seminars or conferences. He has been a member of the SIN since 1991, of the European Neurological Society since 1989 until 2014, when he joined the European Academy of Neurology. Prof. Eduardo Nobile Orazio has also been a member of the American Academy of Neurology since 1998 and of the American Neurological Association since 2012.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Nobile-Or  

Prof. Nicola Portinaro is the Director of the Orthopaedic Paediatric and neuro-orthopaedic Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital, and is Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the University of Milan. 

He was appointed as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and from 2000 until now, Honorary Special Senior Lecturer at University of Bristol, UK. Founder and Scientific Director of "Ariel Foundation", a non profit foundation for pediatric neurological disabilities founded in 2002. 

The team of Professor Portinaro is one of the internationally recognized leading teams in the field of paediatric orthopaedics and neuro-orthopaedic surgery with an experience of over 100 bone surgerical procedures on lower limb every year, including 50 pelvic osteotomies and more than 300 surgical procedures on muscles and tendons (lightening, transfer…). He is specialized in the treatment of lower and upper limb deformities related to Cerebral Palsy, Spina Brifida, Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip, Perthes Disease, clubfoot and alteration in skeletal development. 

A considerable part of his activity is in scientific research, with several experimental works with the goal of detecting uknown anchors aspects of diseases treated by him. His research fields include the study of genomic and proteomic of extracellular matrix proteins in different diseases. 

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=portinaro 

Prof. Marco Montorsi is the Director of the Department of General and digestive surgery unit in Humanitas Research Hospital and he is Professor of General Surgery at the Humanitas University. His academic career started in the the Humanitas University of Milan, where he entered in 1980 as Assistant Professor and was appointed as Professor of Surgery in 2001.

His main interests are in the field of digestive diseases and in the surgical treatment of the related pathologies, mainly hepatico-pancreatico-biliary (HPB) and colorectal pathologies. He is indeed the Director of the Department of Surgery in Humanitas Research Hospital where a great volume of major abdominal surgeries is routinely performed. Around 250 -300 hepatic and pancreatic resections and 350 colorectal resections.
He began performing laparoscopic colorectal surgery in the early 90s and gained a lot of experience in this field. The vast majority of colorectal tumours diagnosed in the department of Surgery is submitted to laparoscopic resection thus allowing a smooth and safe disease course. A robotic approach with the new Da Vinci equipment is now available for patients with rectal tumours.

Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) with dedicated instruments is also offered to selected patient with low-sited rectal tumours so sparing major abdominal approach.

A routine policy of strict interaction with the Dept. of Oncology is active for patients needing a perioperative chemo- and radiotherapy with the aim of full integration for a better care and results.

Prof. Marco Montorsi is also Humanitas University President with over 10 years of experience in didactic and clinic teaching to medical students.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=montorsi+marco

Dr. Lucia Torracca is leading the Cardiac Surgery Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital. She received her training at Ospedali Civili di Brescia and at Ospedale San Raffaele with Professor Ottavio Alfieri, were she improved her knowledge in the mitral disease focusing in the reparative and preservative approaches. At the same institution she led the minimal invasive and robotic division before moving to Ospedali Riuniti Di Ancona to be chief of the Cardiac Surgery Complex Unit. Dr. Torracca has performed more than 55 hundred cardiac surgeries. Thanks to her surgical and academic curriculum, she has been an active member of the steering committee of the European Society editing Guidelines for the treatment of heart diseases.

Together with her team in Humanitas, she can approach every cardiac disease affecting adults, especially focusing on the minimal invasive approach to reparative valve disease. State of the art technologies are regularly explored and implemented in the Open Heart dedicated Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit to ensure best outcomes, shorter hospital stay and fewer surgical complications.

The surgical expertise of Dr. Torracca go from open heart circulatory-arrest procedure to off-pump and/or trans-catheter procedures (MitraClip or TransApical Aortic Valve Implants).

Dr. Torracca and her team can claim the highest rate of mitral valve repair in Bi-leaflet prolapse (Barlow Disease) hitting almost 99% of conservative approach in minimal invasiveness at the time of surgery, maintaining >95% success rate at long term follow up: this option is further advantageous in the youngest patient population allowing restrain from anticoagulation therapy and perfectly normal quality of life.

Author or co-author of 151 publications in national and international scientific journals.

Prof. Leonardo Maradei is specialised in orthopaedics and traumatology and is the Director of the Foot Surgery and Minimally Invasive Operations Unit in Humanitas Research Hospital. 

Prof. Leonardo Maradei performs surgery on the foot with minimally invasive techniques and arthroscopic surgery. After his specialization he deepened his studies in arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder and the knee at the Mississippi Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center (USA), under the guidance of prof. F. H. Savoie. He has developed considerable experience in shoulder prosthetic surgery as a pupil of prof. Mario Randelli. 
His research is focused on the development of new prosthetic materials for the shoulder. During his years in Humanitas he has performed more than 2000 surgeries on the foot, more than 1000 on the knee and more than a 1000 on the shoulder. 

Dr. Maradei is a professor at Università Statale of Milan where he teaches Medicine and Surgery - Lessons on minimally invasive surgery of the shoulder and knee.

Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=maradei+leonardo

Prof. Stefano Respizzi is the Head of the Rehabilitation and Functional Recovery Unit in Humanitas Research Hospital. He is specialized in orthopaedic rehabilitation and sport rehabilitation. In 1986, with some colleagues, he founded the Sports Medical Centre of Sesto San Giovanni. In 1988 he founded the GISMI (Italian Group of Study of Isokinetic Method), where he is also an advisor. 

Medical areas of interest: orthopaedic rehabilitation, traumatology and sports rehabilitation, sports medicine, physical therapy

Research areas of interest: orthopaedic rehabilitation, sports medicine, orthopaedics

Previous experience:  

• 1991-1996 Orthopaedic Institute of Gaetano Pini, Italy
  Assistant Physiatrist
• 1991-1991 Hospital of the Piemonte region , Italy
  Specialist doctor in sports medicine
   

In 1986, with some colleagues from Milan, he founded the Centro Medico Sportivo of Sesto San Giovanni, a facility recognized by Lombardia Region and dedicated to the release of certificates of fitness for practicing competitive sports.

He has been a consultant for the Italian Volleyball Federation.
In 1988 he founded GISMI (Gruppo Italiano Studio Metodiche Isokinetiche).
In 2002 he became managing director of Isokinetic Milano, one of the centers of the network of Isokinetic Sports Rehabilitation Centers.

Prof. Vittorio Quagliuolo is leading the team of Oncological Surgery and the Sarcoma Unit in Humanitas Cancer Center. His professional career started at the National Cancer Institute in Milan (under the guidance of prof. Umberto Veronesi) where he worked at the Department of Digestive & Hepatobiliary Surgery and Sarcoma Unit, chaired at that time by his mentor prof. Leandro Gennari, the pioneer of oncological hepatobiliary surgery in Italy, limb sparing surgery in sarcomas, sphincter saving surgery in colorectal cancer and liver transplantation for malgnancy.

Prof. Quagliuolo was one of the founding members of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), of the European School of Oncology (ESO), European Society of Mastology (EUSOMA), and the Italian Sarcoma Group (ISG).

His surgical expertise is particularly founded on the field of soft tissue sarcomas of limbs and retroperitoneum with more than 1000 surgical resections. This activity is featured by the highest level of safety with an overall mortality close to 0%, and by the highest complexity of the patients, who often require a multidisciplinary approach, with the assistance of other experts in the operative theatre (vascular, plastic, orthopaedic, neuro and thoracic surgeons).

The Sarcoma Unit also cooperates with the most prestigious hospitals in Italy and in Europe participating in international clinical trials. The team has great skills in colorectal, endocrinological, upper GI, and peritoneum surgery.

Prof. Marco Klinger is director of the School of Specialization in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University of Milan and Head of the Operating Unit in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at Humanitas Research Hospital.

He specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery: treatment of scars, burns, outcomes of bariatric surgery, regenerative medicine and surgery, post-oncological breast reconstruction, breast malformations and skin oncology. Aesthetic plastic surgery: augmentation mammoplasty, mastopexy, reduction mammoplasty, rhinoplasty/ rhinoseptoplasty, lifting, liposuction, abdominoplasty, blepharoplasty and otoplasty.

Research interests: Regenerative medicine and surgery.

Prof. Klinger and his team have performed more than 35,000 plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery; he is the author of over 200 scientific articles, published in national and international journals. Among his most recent and significant studies, the use of lipofilling in treatment of severe burn outcome, scleroderma and chronic pain syndromes, such as Post Mastectomy Pain Syndrome.

Scientific publications: 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=klinger%20marco