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Dr. Luca Ricciardi graduated with degrees in medicine and surgery in 2013 and completed his residency in neurosurgery in 2019. In 2017, he completed a fellowship in spinal deformities at the Catholic University of Rome, Italy, and in 2018 he completed a research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Dr. Ricciardi has authored over 90 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals. He is a reviewer for more than 15

scientific journals and has conducted over 150 certified peer reviews to date. In 2021, Dr. Ricciardi was nominated as co-chair and president of the Scientific Committee at SPINE20, the World Congress on Spine Disorders at the G20 conference in Rome, Italy.

Dr. Giorgio Lofrese is a neurosurgeon specializing in cranio-cervical junction diseases and minimally invasive brain and spine surgeries. He is currently a permanent neurosurgeon at the Bufalini Hospital in Cesena, and a consultant neurosurgeon at the State Hospital of the Republic of San Marino. He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and neuro-technologies. Formerly a resident at the Catholic University in Rome, he completed his training in Milan,

Bologna, and New York, concluding it in Curitiba with an AOSpine clinical fellowship. He has been awarded the European Young Researcher Award (AOSpine) and the Young Neurosurgeon Award (WFNS). In 2021, Dr. Lofrese created a new app for iPads, Spine Fine©, for evaluating hand function impairment/recovery in patients with cervical spinal cord injury.

Dr. Andrea Perna, a specialist in orthopedics, graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, where he is in the second year of a research doctorate in oncological sciences. He also works as an orthopedist at the Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza IRCCS, in San Giovanni Rotondo (FG). His research focus is the pathologies of the spine, with particular attention to spinal deformities, traumatic surgery and infectious pathologies

such as spondylodiscitis. He has numerous scientific publications relating to spinal deformity, correction surgery, and minimally invasive surgery, with particular attention to lateral surgery. Other fields of interest are hand surgery and biomechanics applied to orthopedics.

Dr. Sokol Trungu graduated with honors in medicine and surgery in 2010, finishing his residency in neurosurgery in 2017. In 2021, he completed his Ph.D. in neuroscience and neurosurgery at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is currently a consultant neurosurgeon at Cardinale G. Panico Hospital, Tricase, Italy. His areas of special interest are minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS), complex spine surgery, spine trauma focusing on acute

spinal cord injury, primary and secondary spinal tumors, neurovascular medicine, and neuro-oncology. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals and he serves as a reviewer for different scientific journals.

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