Membership
PRESIDENT
MENCHETTI PIER PAOLO MARIA, MD, FRCS (US)
Orthopaedic Surgeon. Aggregate Professor Palermo University – Italy
Corresponding Fellow EFORT
Fellow Royal College Physicians and Surgeons United States of America
American Academy of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
Rome American Hospital, Via Longoni 69, www.hcir.it – Roma , Italy
NCL – Neurological Centre of Latium, Via Patrica, 15, www.nclroma.it – Roma, Italy
Email: menchetti@spineislass.org
VICE PRESIDENT
BINI WALTER, MD , PhD, FRCS(US), FMH
Chairman ISLASS Middle East Chapter
Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon, Healthpoint Hospital, Orthopaedic Dept, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: bini@spineislass.org
SECRETARY
CANERO GIANFRANCO, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Casa di Cura San Feliciano – Roma, Italy
Email: canero@spineislass.org
ADVISERS
CHIU JOHN, MD, FRCS (US)
Chief AAMISMS (American Academy minimal invasive Spinal Medicine and Surgery),
Past President ISMISS (International Society of minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery)
CALIFORNIA SPINE INSTITUTE MEDICAL CENTER, INC., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
www.spinecenter.com – Email: chiu@spinecenter.com
GAUCI CHARLES
Member of the Executive of WIP (World Institute of Pain)
Department of Anatomy, University of Malta, La Valletta, Malta
Tal-Qroqq, Malta – Email: charles.gauci@btinternet.com
OERTEL JOACHIM, Prof. Dr. med.
Chairman of Neurosurgery Dept. University Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes
Homburg-Saar, Germany
Email: Joachim.Oertel@uks.eu
RUIZ LOPEZ RICARDO
Founder e Past President WIP (World Institute of Pain)
Clinica Vertebra – Spine and Pain Surgery – Barcelona, Spain
Email: ruizlopez@gmail.com
ISLASS members, *members at large, honorary members
ALGARA CARLOS
CLINICA DE NTRA. SRA. DEL PILAR, Balmes 271 – Barcellona, Spain
Email: admon.cdelpilar@terra.es, email: carlosalgara@yahoo.es
ADDUCI ALESSIA
Istituto di Anestesiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy
Email: alessia.adduci@tiscali.it
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ABU SETTA GEHAD
Fellow Royal College of Surgeon, Glasgow, UK
Dept Orthopaedics,Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, Umm Al Quwain, UAE
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Al SHEHRI SALEM
Orthopaedics Dept. Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, Umm Al Quwain, UAE
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ASLAM UBAID
Hospital physician Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, Umm Al Quwain, UAE
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BALSANO MASSIMO
Responsabile UOC Ortopedia e Traumatologia dell’Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata di Verona, Verona, Italy
Email: massimo.balsano@gmail.com _______________________________________________________________________________________
*BARTELS RONALD
Dept Neurosurgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen – The Netherlands
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*BARZILAY YAIR
Orthopaedic Surgery, Spine Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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*BECKER STEPHAN
Chief Medical Officer iBio Health Ltd, Salzburg, Austria
Email: Stephan.becker@medimpuls.at
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BINI WALTER, MD , PhD, FRCS(US), FMH
Chairman ISLASS Middle East Chapter
Senior Consultant of Neurosurgery Healthpoint Hospital, Dept.Orthopaedics, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: bini@spineislass.org, binidr4@gmail.com
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BONALDI GIUSEPPE
Neuroradiologo, Ospedale RIUNITI DI BERGAMO. Dipartimento Neuroradiologia, Largo Barozzi 1, Bergamo, Italy
Email: bbonaldi@yahoo.com
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BURKHARDT W. BENEDIKT
Saarland University Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Homburg / Saar, Germany
Email: benedikt.burkhardt@uks.eu
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BUSA ANANDAREDDY
Arzt beiNeuro, Ortho, Trauma und Wirbelsaulenchirurgie. Erfurt, Germany
Email: reddyananda9@yahoo.com
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*CACCIOLA FRANCESCO
UOC Neurochirurgia, Ospedale Policlinico Santa Maria delle Scotte, Siena, Italy
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*CAGGIARI GIANFILIPPO
Specializzando in Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria, Sassari, Italy
Email: gianfilippocaggiari@gmail.com
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CANERO GIANFRANCO
Casa di Cura San Feliciano, via Val Cannuta, 132 – Roma, Italy
Email: canero@spineislass.org
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CAPRIOTTI GABRIELA
Professore aggregato, Medicina Nucleare – Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Roma – Sapienza Università – Roma, Italy
Email: gabriela.capriotti@uniroma1.it
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CARBAJAL BRAULIO HERNANDEZ
SOCIEDAD MEXICANADE MINIMA INVASION DE COLUMNA
Tehuantepec No. 86-302 Col. Roma Sur 06760 – Mexico City,Mexico
Email: hegb@prodigy.net.mx
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*CARBONE STEFANO
Ortopedia, Casa di Cura San Feliciano, via Val Cannuta 132 – Roma, Italy
Email: stefcarbone@yahoo.it
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*CATHREIN PHILIPPE
Orthopaedics, Dorsomed, Blumenrain 87, 2503 Biel, Switzerland
Email: cathrein@dorsomed.ch
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CECCHETTI WALTER
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI VENEZIA – DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA, Venezia, Italy
Email: ceccwalt@unive.it
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CHAABAN ABDO
CLINICA VILLACERRADA C/Caba, 22 Albacete, Spain
POLICLINICA ANDALUCIA – Marbella, Spain
Email: chaaban@ono.com
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*CHIAZZOLLA FRANCESCO
Ortopedia, chirurgia vertebrale endoscopica, Concordia Hospital, Roma, Italy
Email: francesco.chiazzolla@gmail.com
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CHIERICHINI ANGELO
Istituto di Anestesiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy
Email: achierichini@gmail.com
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CHIU JOHN
CALIFORNIA SPINE INSTITUTE MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
Chief AAMISMS, Past President ISMISS
1001 Newbury Road 91320 Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
www.spinecenter.com – Email: chiu@spinecenter.com
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DI DONATO ATTILIO
Chirurgia endoscopica vertebrale, Concordia Hospital, Roma (Italy)
President Founder Social Medical Care
Email: a.didonato@terapiadolorevertebrale.it
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DI FELICE ARIBERTO
C/O CASA DI CURA SPATOCCO, Viale Amendola, 93 – Chieti , Italy
Email: ariberto.di.felice@tiscali.it
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DORIA CARLO
Professore Associato Malattie Apparato Locomotore, Università di Sassari, Direttore della U.O.C. di Clinica Ortopedica dell’Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Email: cdoria@uniss.it; reemad@tiscali.it
*DUBOIS GILLES
Service de Neurochirurgie, Clinique de l’Union – St Jean, France
Email: gilles.dubois@clinique-union.fr
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DUNDAR MELIH
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Neuro Pain Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Email: melih@karin-schwarz-pr.de
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DUTTA ARINDAM
Anesthesiologist, Zulekha Hospital, Sharjah, UAE
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EL RAI SALAH
Head Radiology Dept, Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, Umm Al Quwain, UAE
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FABRIS MONTERUMICI DANIELE
Azienda Ospedaliera – Università di Padova Unità Operativa Complessa di Chirurgia del rachide – SANDRO AGOSTINI, Padova, Italy
Email: chirurgia.rachide@sanita.padova.it
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FINOCCHIARO FRANCESCO
Azienda Ospedaliera – Università di Padova Unità Operativa Complessa di Chirurgia del rachide – SANDRO AGOSTINI, Padova, Italy
Email: fmfinocchiaro@libero.it
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FONTANELLA ANDREA
Neurochirurgia endoscopica, Casa di Cura Città di Parma, P.zza Athos Maestri, 5 – Parma, Italy
Email: andreafontanella@miaposta.it
FERRONE GIULIANO
Istituto di Anestesiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy
Email: giulianoferrone@gmail.com
FLEITES MARRERO ERNESTO
Ortopedia, Cirugia Espinal, Clinica Central Cira Garcia, Cuba
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*FRASSANITO LUCIANO
Istituto di Anestesiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy
Email: lucfras75@hotmail.com
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FREUDIGER STEFAN
Biomechanical Engineering Dept
Ingenirurburo Flugwesen und Biomechanik IFB AG – Bremgarten, Switzerland
Email: Stefan.freudiger@ifbag.ch
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*GALLO MASSIMILIANO
U.O. Ortopedia e Traumatologia, AOU Sassari, Italy
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GALVANO GIANLUCA
Responsabile U.O.S. Neuroradiologia, Ospedale Garibaldi – Catania, Italy
Email: gianlucagalvano@gmail.com
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GAUCI CHARLES
Member of the Executive of WIP (World Institute of Pain)
Department of Anatomy, University of MaltaTal-Qroqq, Malta
Email: charles.gauci@btinternet.com
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*HABERLAND NILS
Spinal neurosurgery, Spine Clinic, Frankfurt, Germany
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HELLINGER STEPHAN
Nova MED KLINIK, Münich, Germany
Email: hellinger@gmx.de
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HESS MICHAEL
Past President German Interventional Spine Society (GIW)
Consultant Orthopaedics KIMS Hospital, Kent, UK
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KAMSON SOLOMON
Spine Institute North West, Tacoma, WA, USA
Email: info@spineinstitutenw.com
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*KLEIN RALF, Dept Radi Med Laser, Bochum, Germany
Email: klein@radimed.de
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JONGH COBO ENRIQUE
Presidente Sociedad Cubana Neurologia y Neurocirugia, Clinica Central Cira Garcia, La Habana, Cuba
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KOSTERIN SERGEY
Sytenko Insitute of Spine and Joint Pathology, Orthopaedics, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Email: ortop.kosterin@gmail.com
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*LERCH A.
Service de Neurochirurgie, Clinique del’Union, St Jean, France
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*LETIZIA MAURO GIULIA
Direttore Scuola Spec. Medicina Fisica e Riabilitazione, Università di Palermo, Palermo,Italy
Email: giulia.letiziamauro@unipa.it
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LOPEZ ELIXENA
Neurosurgery Dept., Hospital Juan Manuel Marquez, La Habana, Cuba
Email: elixena@infomed.sid.cu
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*MALECI ALBERTO
Direttore cattedra di Neurochirurgia, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Email: alberto.maleci@gmail.com
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MANFRÈ LUIGI
Interventistica Spinale Mini invasiva, Istituto Oncologico Mediterraneo – Catania, Italy
Chairman of Diagnostic and Interventional Spine – ESNR (European Society of Neuroradiology)
Email: manfreluigi@gmail.com
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MARCIA STEFANO
Dipartimento Radiologia, Ospedale SS Trinità – Cagliari, Italy
Email: stemarcia@gmail.com
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MASALA SALVATORE
Responsabile Dipartimento Radiologia, Ospedale San Giovanni, Professor Associato Sapienza Università – Roma, Italy
Email: salva.masala@tiscali.it
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MENCHETTI PIER PAOLO MARIA
Rome American Hospital, via Longoni, 69 00155, Roma, Italy . Tel: +390622551 – www.hcir.it
NCL – Neurological Centre of Latium, via Patrica, 15 – Roma, Italy . www.nclroma.it
Casa di Cura Columbus, via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 48 – Milano, Italy.
Email: menchetti@spineislass.org, ppm.menchetti@libero.it
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MILIA FABIO
Ortopedia, dirigente medico Clinica Ortopedica, AOU Sassari, Italy
Email: fabiomilia@virgilio.it
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MOLINA GUILLERMO FERNANDEZ
Istituto Medico De Neurosciencias Columna Vertebral e Dolor 38 – 740 (1900), La Plata (BsAs), Argentina
Email: fernandezmolina@inecod.com.ar
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MORGENSTERN RUDOLF, MD, PHD
Orthopaedics Spine Surgery Unit, Centro Medico Teknon, Barcelona – Spain
Mail: rudolf@morgenstern.es
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MORGENSTERN CHRISTIAN, MD, PHD
Centrum fur Muskulosketale Chirurgie, Charitė Hospital, Berlin – Germany
Mail: christian.morgenstern@charite.de
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MURESU FRANCESCO
Specialista in Ortopedia e Traumatologia, ATS Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy
Email. francescomuresu@gmail.com
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NEGROTTO ALLYS
MEDICA URUGUAYA CORPORATION DE ASSISTENCIA MEDICA
Chairman Dept. Neurosurgery, Montevideo , Uruguay
Email: allys@mednet.org.uy
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NIN FERNANDO
PRESIDENTE SOCIETÀ ORTOPEDIA E TRAUMATOLOGIA URUGUAY
Montevideo, Uruguay
Email: ninfernando@hotmail.com
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*OERTEL JOACHIM
Chief Neurosurgery Dept Saarland University Medical Center – Homburg / Saar, Germany
Email: Joachim.Oertel@uks.eu
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ORTNER STEPHAN
Orthopaedics. Emirates Integra Medical and Surgery Center, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE
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*PERI DANIELE
Dipartimento Ingegneria Biomedica, Università di Palermo, Italy
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*PERI GIOVANNI
Dipartimento Anatomia, Università di Palermo, Italy
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*PERRINI PAOLO
Neurochirurgia, AOUP, Pisa, Italy
Email: p.perrini@ao-pisa.toscana.it
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RADCHENKO VLADIMIR
SYTENKO Institute, Dept Spinal Surgery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
www.sytenkoistitute.com, email: volod56@hotmail.com
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RICCI GIOVANNI
Centro chirurgico Toscano – Ortopedia, Arezzo, Italy
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RUIZ LOPEZ RICARDO
Founder e Past President WIP (World Institute of Pain)
Clinica Vertebra – Spine and Pain Surgery – Barcelona, Spain
Email: ruizlopez@gmail.com
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*SANFILIPPO ANTONINO
Direttore Scuola Spec. Ortopedia e Traumatologia – Università di Palermo, Italy
Email: antonino.sanfilippo@unipa.it
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*SIEMIONOW KRIS B.
Dept. Orthopaedics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
Email: Ksiem@myissc.com
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SO-HYANG IM
Consultant Neurosurgeon Dept., Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, Umm Al Quwain, UAE
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*SOMMER FRANK, Spine Unit Dept, Medical Center of Spinal Disorders, Munich/TaufKirchen, Germany
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*STURESSON BENGT
Ortopeadic Dept., Ängelholm County Hospital, Ängelholm, Sweden
Email: sturesson.bengt@gmail.com
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TACCONI LEONELLO
Responsabile UO Neurochirurgia, Ospedali Riuniti – Trieste, Italy
Email: leonello.tacconi@asuits.sanita.fvg.it
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*THOMPKINS A.A.
Orthopaedic Dept, Lakeshore Bone and Joint Institute, Chesterton, IN, USA
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TOLGAY SATANA
Orthopaedics. Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul – Turkey
ISLASS Chairman National Chapter ISLASS TURKEY 
Email: tolgay@doctor.com
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VAUGHAN THOMAS, Physio Centre – DHCC , Dubai UAE.
Email: vthomas@physiocentre.ae
Honorary Members
DESTANDAU JEAN
President World Endoscopic Spine Society (WESS)
Founding member ISLASS
Clinique Bagatelle rue de la Pelouse de Douet, 145 – Bordeaux, France
Email: docteur.destandau@wanadoo.fr
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DI LORENZO NICOLA
Past Clinical professor of Neurosurgery, Florence University, Italy
NCL – Neurological Centre of Latium, Via Patrica, 15 – ROMA (RM) – www.nclroma.it,
Email: nicoladilorenzo@outlook.it
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MC CORMACK BRUCE M.
Dept. Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Email: bruce@neurospine.org
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PIL SUN CHOI
Founder President of World Federation of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques – University San Paolo, Brasil. www.drpil.com.br.
Email: pilsunchoi@hotmail.com