Professor
Geneva University Hospitals
Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Enrico Tessitore, born on 19.06.1972 in Italy, has obtained his Medical Degree at Second University of Naples (Italy) in 1996 and he has completed his neurosurgical residency in 2001 at the same University.
He has been working in Geneva since October 2001, first as chief resident and then as an Attending Neurosurgeon. Now, he serves as Deputy Chairman and he is the Chief of Spine surgery in the same Unit. Given his interest on spinal tumors, he has been appointed Director of Geneva HUG Cancer Center in December 2019.
He has focused his clinical and scientific interest on the field of spine surgery.
He has published more than 90 papers on peer-reviewed journals, mainly on spinal topics. He has been invited as speaker and chairman at several National and International Congresses.
He has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal Acta Neurochirurgica, and he is in the advisory board of European Spine Journal and Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences.
His clinical research focuses on cranio-vertebral junction, cervical myelopathy, robotic spine surgery, and Enhanced Recovery After Surgery. He has been main Editor of the book “Surgery of the Cranio-Vertebral Junction”, published by Springer in December 2019.
He is appointed in July 2020 Associate Professor in Neurosurgery at the University of Geneva. He’s involved in pre graduate teaching at the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva since 2005. He is also involved in post-graduate teaching at European level (EANS, AO Spine, Eurospine), by organizing and leading hands-on courses on spinal surgical techniques. He is President of the Swiss Spine Society.
Since the beginning of his career, he has operated on more than 4000 patients, mainly for spinal pathologies (traumatic, tumoral and degenerative). He has developed particular skills and competences in surgical procedures as: surgery at cranio-vertebral junction, robotic spine surgery, adult deformity surgery, and minimally invasive surgery.
Prof. Enrico Tessitore
Attending Neurosurgeon
Vice-Chairman Neurosurgical Unit
Director Cancer Center
Geneva University Hospitals
Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil 4
1211-Geneva 14
Switzerland
Phone: +41223728212/+41795533787
Fax: +41223728220
Email: Enrico.Tessitore@hcuge.ch
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