Chief of Spine Surgery Unit (NCH4) - Department of Neurosurgery
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Neurologico “C. Besta"
Prof Francesco Costa was born in Milan the 15 January 1977. Graduated at the Medical School of the “Università degli Studi di Milano” in 2002 and he obtained the specialization in Neurosurgery in 2007 with full remarks in the same University. He obtained the European Spine Diploma in 2011.
Actually he works as Deputy Chair of Spine Surgery Unit (NCH4) of the Department of Neurosurgery of Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta in Milan. He worked as deputy Chair of Spine Oncology Section in the Department of Neurosurgery of Humanitas Clinical and Research Center till November 2021. He works mainly in the spine surgery field, performing more than 7000 spine procedures for degenerative, traumatic and oncologic pathologies. In the latest years particular effort is applied in spine oncological surgery, complex spine surgery and cervical procedures.
He covered the role of Associate Professor in Neurosurgery at Humanitas University and actually is Adjunct Professor in the neurosurgical residenship program of the “Università degli Studi di Milano”, as well for international neurosurgeons in the Complex Spine Surgery Fellowship for WFNS.
He is an active member of North American Spine Society (NASS), Eurospine, AOSpine and Italian Neurosurgical Society (SINch). He is Consulting Editor for the spine surgery section of Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences, and associate reviewer of The Spine Journal and Eurospine Journal.
He is an active member of WFNS Spine Committee since 2018 and from November 2021 he covers the role of vice-Chair.
Participation as speaker and invited speakers in several national and international meetings. He is author of more than 80 articles published in International Journals and author or co-author of 11 books chapter. He participates and collaborates with different Institution and University for research program, obtaining national and international grants.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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