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.