Visiting Professor Lectures

Prof. Marco Innocenti

• Director of the "Reconstructive Microsurgery Unit" of Careggi University Hospital in Florence (Italy)
• Clinical Professor of Microsurgery for the Plastic Surgery Department at the University of Siena (Italy) and the Paediatric Surgery Department at the University of Florence (Italy).
• Consultant for Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery at "Ospedale Pediatrico Meyer" in  Florence (Italy)
• Consultant Microsurgeon at G. Pini Orthopaedic Institute in Milan and Rizzoli Institute in Bologna.
• Fields if Interest: post traumatic and post oncological functional reconstruction of bone as well as soft tissue with a special interest in the Vascularized Proximal Fibular Epiphyseal Transfer in the growing individuals and the application of perforator flaps. Treatment of the congenital differences of the upper extremity.
• Past president of the Italian Society for Microsurgery (SIM) (2002-2005) for which he currently holds the position of European Delegate.
• Member of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM) and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH), Associate Editor for the "Journal of Hand Surgery (American)", and Reviewer for the "Journal of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery"
• Publications: 107 scientific papers and book chapters.

Prof. Pietro Ruggieri

• Confirmed Researcher and Aggregate Professor of Orthopedics, University of Bologna
• Acting Director of IV Department of Orthopedics, Instituto Rizzoli, responsible of the Unit Prosthetic Surgery in Musculoskeletal Oncology, within the IV Department of Orthopedics
• Researcher at University of Bologna, Dept. of Orthopedics, working as staff surgeon at the Istituto Orthopedico Rizzoli
• Responsible of the Prosthetic Reconstructive Surgery in Orthopedic Oncology at the Istituto Rizzoli.
• Responsible of the Unit of Prosthetic reconstructive Surgery in Musculoskeletal Oncology. Surgical Activity: more tahn 3000 surgical procedures in orthopedics, with special regard to the field of musculoskeletal oncology.
• Publications: more tahn 380 scientific papers on National or International Journals, over 190 of these on PubMed, with an Impact Factor of 311, Citations Index on ISIweb of more than 22, H Index of 20.
• Main Fields of Research: Musculoskeletal Oncology, Reconstructive Surgery