Born in Bergamo in 1944
A-levels centring on humanistic subjects
Degree in Medicine and Surgery; Specialization in Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Current Posts:

•   Director, Pain and Headaches Centre, Istituto Galeazzi, Milan;
•   Director, Department of Neurology, and Director, Centre for Pain and      Headaches, Policlinico San Marco di Zingonia, Bergamo, since 1989;
•   Director, Btx Chemistry and Enervation Clinic;
•   Temporary Chair, Universities of Pavia and Milan;
•   He works both in Bergamo and Milan.

President of the A.I.ST. (Italian Association for Tourette's Syndrome).

Former posts:

•   c/o Ospedale Maggiore di Niguarda, Milan
•   c/o Northwestern University, Chicago (1 year)
•   c/o Hospital de la Salpétrière, Paris (7 years)

Author of over 200 scientific works published in national and foreign reviews.

Editor of 7 books on neurosciences.
e has long studied the use of the botulin toxin in many pain-related diseases, movement disorders and cholinergic gland disorders.
Expert in the management of intradiscal and vertebral diseases, he has performed about eighty vertebroplasties due to osteoporosis and tumours.
He is highly experienced in the medical management of Tourette's Syndrome.