Luciano Mastronardi, specialist in Neurosurgery since 1985 and Head of the Neurosurgery of the St. Filippo Neri Hospital in [[Rome]] since July 2010.

Skull Base Surgery at the School of Specialization in Neurosurgery at the "Tor Vergata" University of Rome.

Focuses on the following fields:

microsurgery of the brain tumors and of the base of the skull, in particular of the acoustic neurinomas and of the irritative-deficient pathology of the cranial nerves such as the trigeminal neuralgia.

Co-director and tutor in microneurosurgical dissection courses in Florida (www.inerf.org), in Europe (www.friendssc.com) and in Italy.

Vertebro-medullary pathology, in particular the microsurgery of cervical hernia and spondyloarthritic cervical myelopathy, national awards (Stryker 2006 and Tagliapietra 2007) for research on the clinical-surgical application of technological innovations, and microsurgery of the herniated lumbar disc and lumbar vertebral stenosis, instrumental surgery of the spine (vertebral stabilization) and minimally invasive vertebral methods.