Agostino Gemelli University Policlinic

Prof. Alessandro is a well-known neurosurgeon throughout the world who completed his education and training in the US. He has been a full professor at John Hopkins University in Baltimore since 2002. Prior to that, he was the director of the neurosurgery department at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and the director of the neurosurgery oncology division at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has held the positions of Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University in Chicago, Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Full Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome since 2015.

He currently treats brain tumors (meningiomas, gliomas, pituitary adenomas, acoustic neuromas, skull base tumors, metastases), spinal tumors (astrocytomas, ependymomas), and cerebral vascular malformations (angiomas, cartero-venous malformations, aneurysms) as the director of the neurosurgery unit at the A. Gemelli University Hospital Foundation in Rome, a department of excellence at the European level.

Additionally, it addresses conditions pertaining to the cervical and lumbar spine (stenosis, herniated discs). He has long been a part of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which establishes global standards for cancer therapy. Since 1991, he has completed almost 7,000 procedures, averaging roughly 300 procedures annually.

Renowned liver transplant specialist Prof. Antonio Grieco practices in Rome, Italy. He is currently Head of the Complex Operational Unit of Liver Transplant Medicine at Agostino Gemelli University Policlinic in Rome. His educational background includes a degree in medicine and surgery from the UNICATT Institute of Internal and Geriatric Medicine in Maryland, as well as the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Liver diseases, including cirrhosis, liver failure, hepatology, gastroenterology, hepatitis, liver, NASH, and medical practice, are his areas of interest.

At the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, Professor Giulio Maccauro received his degrees in medicine and surgery. He then went on to specialize in orthopedics and traumatology, earning honors and full grades in both fields. His career has been closely associated with the National Institutes of Higher Studies, which have welcomed and enhanced his preparation. He progressed from being a researcher to a lecturer, and presently holds the positions of Director of the Departmental Centre of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the IRCCS Gemelli University Hospital Foundation and Full Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. 

The surgical specialties of Prof. Maccauro are osteoarticular infections and oncological surgery. Thanks to worldwide internships with eminent professors in Oncology of the Musculoskeletal System, he has specialized in the detection and treatment of bone metastases and primary skeletal cancers.

He has completed more than 12,000 orthopaedic and traumatological procedures as First Operator, with a focus on oncological procedures for tumors that originate in the skeleton or indicate metastatic disseminations.

At the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Agostino Gemelli University Hospital Foundation IRCCS (Rome), he serves as a professor and full professor of cardiac surgery as well as the director of the institute of cardiology, the director of the U.O.C. of cardiac surgery, and the director of the cardiovascular area. Director of the Cardiac Surgery Service and Full Professor at the Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Caen (France) from 2007 to 2012. Formerly, from 2005 to 2007, an Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the "San Matteo" Foundation's Division of Cardiac Surgery in Pavia, Italy. He assumed leadership of the Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen's Division of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplantation, and Cardiac Mechanical Assistance in 2007. The same year, he was awarded the "Victoires de la Medecine" award in the field of cardiology in Paris for the "Resuscitation" project, which focused on using cutting-edge techniques and tools to enhance the prognosis of cardiac arrest patients.