Ischemic Stroke

Giuseppe Antonio D'Aliberti received his MD from Catania University School of Medicine in Italy in 1983 and then trained in Neurosurgery in Italy and overseas. He was appointed as a neurosurgeon in the Neurosurgical Department of Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan, in 1987. He served as Vice-Director of the department from 2003 to 2009 and as Chairman from 2009 to 2011. He also served as tutor in Neurosurgery at the Neurosurgical Training School of the University of Milan from 2001 to 2011. He has performed more than 3000 major surgical procedures, mostly for benign cerebral tumours, aneurysms, cerebral AVMs, and spinal tumours/AVMs. He has published 230 refereed articles and been invited to deliver lectures at over 100 national and international conferences. Marco Longoni completed his medical studies at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, in 2001 and then undertook a residency and fellowship in Neurology at the university. He has also since completed a fellowship in Radiology. He currently works at the Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital in Milan, having previously been a neurologist in the Neuroscience Department of Lecco Hospital, Italy (2007-14).

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