Pietro Mortini
Milan, ItalyDoctor's speciality:
neuro-oncological surgeon
About the Doctor
Experience
33 years
Professor Mortini performs skull base surgeries and provides surgical treatment for cerebrovascular diseases, brain, and spinal tumors. He has conducted over 8,000 neurosurgical procedures and stereotactic radiosurgery interventions using the Gamma Knife. In 2020, he performed the world’s first surgery to remove a meningioma using a robotoscope. Under his leadership, the Neurosurgery Department has become an internationally recognized center of expertise for treating pituitary tumors.
Professor Mortini is also deeply involved in research. He has designed over 60 new instruments for microneurosurgical operations and published 230 scientific papers.
Education
1986 – Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma
1991 – Specialization in Neurosurgery, University of Verona
Professional Experience
1995–2002 – Tutor for the residency program in clinical neurosurgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
1999 – International Scholar, George Washington University Institute of Neurology
2001 – Senior neurosurgery specialist, San Raffaele Scientific Institute
2002 – Head of Skull Base Surgery Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute
2005–2008 – Head of Neurosurgery Department, Spedali Civili Hospita
2005–2008 – Consultant Neurosurgeon, San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Since 2008 – Head of Neurosurgery Department, San Raffaele University Hospital
Since 2015 – Visiting consultant, Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait
Professor Mortini has 20 years of experience teaching neurosurgery at universities in Italy and the United States.