Matteo Zoli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical and
Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Immediately after
graduating with honors in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna in
2008, he concentrated his activity in the field of pituitary surgery and
anatomy and endoscopic surgery of the skull base. In 2013, he carried out a
research fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at
Ohio University and specialized in Neurosurgery at the University of Modena and
Reggio-Emilia in 2015. In 2018, he completed his PhD program in Biomedical and
Neuromotor Sciences at the University of Bologna. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor (RTD-b) in Neurosurgery in Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences
at Bologna University, working at Programma Ipofisi-Pituitary Unit, IRCCS
Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Italy.
Constantin Tuleasca is an FMH neurosurgeon, Privat-Docent,
and Master of Teaching and Clinical Research at the University of Lausanne. He
is a hospital executive doctor in the Neurosurgery Department. He completed his
medical studies at the “Gr. T. Popa” University and training in Neurosurgery at
the CHUV (Pr. Levivier). He worked at Marseille (Pr Régis) to specialize in
minimally invasive radio-neurosurgery from 2010 to 2011. Then, he returned to
CHUV and continued the MD-PhD program at the University of Lausanne, while
continuing clinical activity as an assistant physician, then head clinical
assistant. He subsequently returned to clinical activity at the Paris-Sud
University Hospital Center for a year. He was subsequently a neuro-oncology
fellow at the Lille University Hospital Center (Pr. Reyns) for another year. He
was the first head of the clinic in CHUV,
then appointed hospital executive doctor in May 2022. He was involved in
the development of the Gamma Knife radio-neurosurgery activity at the CHUV in
2011. He is particularly attracted to image-guided surgery, especially in the
field of neuro-oncology. He won the Prize of Excellence from the University of
Lausanne in 2019 and was twice a Laureate of the French Academy of Medicine. He is
responsible for the multidisciplinary management of brain metastases, in
collaboration with the Radiation Oncology Department.
Bipin Chaurasia is a Chief Resident at the Department of
Neurosurgery, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Shahbag, Dhaka,
Bangladesh. He is a Neurosurgeon and Senior Researcher at the Bhawani Hospital
and Research Centre in Birgunj, Nepal. His skills and expertise include
neurotrauma, spinal surgery, and neurosurgery. His research interest includes
spinal disorders. He has published more than 110 documents and his h-index is
11 (according to Scopus).
Enrico Franceschi is Director of the Complex Operational
Unit of Nervous System Oncology at the IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences
of Bologna-AUSL, at the Bellaria Hospital in Bologna. He is a recognized expert
in the multidisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of brain tumors in adults.
He is Co-Chair of the brain tumor domain of the European Reference Network on
Rare Adult Cancers (EURACAN) and leader of the medulloblastoma
subdomain. He is the Coordinator of the National Guidelines of the Italian
Association in Medical Oncology (AIOM) for Brain Tumors. He is a member of the
European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) faculty for brain tumors and
representative of the Faculty of Tumors of the central nervous system
for OncologyPRO. He is responsible for the company PDTA for brain tumors and for
the multidisciplinary meetings of oncological pathology relating to the nervous
system. He is the principal investigator of multiple experimental studies in
the field of brain tumors. He is the author and co-author of over 170
publications in international scientific journals as well as book chapters in
the field of brain tumors. His top areas of expertise are a Glioma, Gliomatosis
Cerebri, Astrocytoma, and Glioblastoma.
Raffaele Lodi is a Full-Time Professor,
Neurologist, and Radiologist at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aging and
Nephrology, University of Bologna. Since 1991, he has been using advanced MR
techniques (MR Spectroscopy, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Voxel-Based Morphometry,
Functional MRI) for clinical research and diagnoses of neuromuscular and
central nervous system diseases. In 1988, he gained a master’s degree in
Medicine and Surgery and was awarded his doctorate in Biochemistry in 1996 at
the University of Bologna. From 1995 to 1998, he worked as a Clinical Research
Fellow, using MR spectroscopy to study muscular and cardiac metabolism in
numerous neurological disorders at the Biochemical & Clinical Magnetic
Resonance Spectroscopy Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, and in
parallel working as a Senior Registrar dealing with neuromuscular diseases at
the Department of Neurology, University of Oxford. Between 1995 and 1998, he was
a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. Since
1999, he has been a Visiting Clinical Scientist at the Biochemical &
Clinical Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit in Oxford, undertaking clinical
research and studying animal models of neurological diseases with MR
spectroscopy. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the World Journal of
Radiology and of the Board of the Italian Chapter of the International Society
for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
Alfredo Conti is an associate professor of Neurosurgery at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy, and a Visiting Professor at Charité University Hospital of Berlin. He is also a lecturer of Neuroscience in the PhD program in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Messina, Italy. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Messina in July 1997 (cum laude) and completed the residency in neurosurgery in 2002. He completed a PhD in Neuro-Oncology at the University of Messina in 2007. He served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Messina from 2006 to 2015 and as an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery from 2016 to 2019. He worked as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Charité Faculty of Medicine in 2018 and he currently has a position at that institution as a Visiting Professor. He received a full professorship habilitation in 2018. For the past 15 years, he has continuatively performed surgical activity as a specialist registrar/consultant with over 1500 surgical procedures independently performed. He served as a reviewer for more than 30 scientific journals, including the most important in the field of neuroscience, and is a member of the editorial board of 5 of them. He received some of the field's major national and international awards, including the “Tagliapietra” National Award, “B. Guidetti” International Award, EANS Aesculap Prize, Best Poster ESSFN, “frameless stereotactic radiosurgery publication Competition”, and EANS Research Fund.
