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Stefano Boriani, MD
Personal information - Education and work experience
Director, Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery, Rizzoli Institute
MD degree from the University of Bologna in 1976 with 110/110 cum laude.
Specialization in "Orthopaedics and Traumatology" in 1979 (University of Bologna, 70/70)
Attending Surgeon at Rizzoli from 1978 to 1988, Senior Surgeon till 1996. Charged as responsible of sub-unit of Oncologic Spine Surgery in the Department of Bone Tumor Surgery directed by prof. Mario Campanacci.
Head of the Department of Spine Surgery at Istituto Santa Corona di Pietra Ligure (SV) from april 22nd to september 21st 1996,
Head of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology Ospedale Maggiore in Bologna from september 1996 to september 5th 2009.
Since setpember 6th 2009 Head of the Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery at Rizzoli Institute in Bologna
Fluent in english and french
Apple and Windows software for text, imaging, and scientific presentations
“Professore a Contratto” at the Post Graduate School of Reumatologia (University of Bologna) teaching SPINE PATHOLOGIES from 1997 to 2010.
“Professore a Contratto” at the Post Graduate School of Medicina Fisica e Riabilitazione(University of Bologna) teaching Systems of Fixation in Traumatology of the LImbs from 1992 to 1994
“Professore a Contratto” at the Post Graduate School of Ortopedia e Traumatologia (University of Bologna) teaching :
REPARTI di PRONTO SOCCORSO (from 1982- to 1987)
CLINICA ORTOPEDICA (from 1987 to 1992)
AFFEZIONI COLONNA VERTEBRALE (from 1992 to 1994
TRATTAMENTO CHIRURGICO DEI TRAUMI VERTEBRO-MIDOLLARI (from 1993 to 1994)
TECNICHE DI CHIRURGIA VERTEBRALE (from 1993 to 1994)
CHIRURGIA DEL RACHIDE TORACO-LOMBARE
(from 2000 to 2010)
Member of the editorial board as associat editor of:
“La chirurgia degli organi di movimento” since 1990,
Orthopaedics” since 1992,
Spine” since 1993
The spanish journal of orthopaedics and traumatology” since 2003,
European spine journal” since 2005.
Chairman since 2005 to 2009 of AO-Spine Italia, an International scientific association inclluding more than 4000 members worldwide (more than 200 members in Italy).
The Department directsd by Stefano Boriani is a Reference Center of AOSpine and receive every year many visitors and fellows
Co-Chairman of the Spine Oncology Study Group, an International multidisciplinal association of experts in the field of spine tumors
Honorary member of the Israel Spine Society
Honorary member of the Hungarian Spine Society
Invited as “Visiting Professor” at:
Massachussets General Hospital - Harvard Medical School,
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Dartmouth Medical School, Spine
Department of Sacramento (USA),
Spine Department of Xian, Hangzhou, Beijing (China).
823 scientific presentations at inational and International meetings, 547 of them concerning Spine Surgery topics
Chairman and Organizer of 15 Courses and Congresses
Chairman of Module 3 and of the Master (European Diploma Program )of Eurospine Foundation
5 monographies and many chapters of bokks
Ha pubblicato 398 articles published scientific journal 90 of which on imparte journals
The most important surgical and scientific interest concerns diagnosis and treatment of spine tumors.
Major contributions to this topic, worldwide recognized are:
- the original staging systems for primary tumors, wellknown as WBB presented in 1996 and now applied by most spine oncologic srgeons.
- the homogeneous series of cases carefully studied and published
- some original techniques of spine tumor resections and reconstruction
Other field of activity and research are:
spine fractures
post-traumatic deformities
mini-invasive approaches


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