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Prof. Franco Servadei, MD, PhD Director of NeurosurgeryNeurotraumatology, Maggiore Hospital and University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Prof. Servadei completed his Neurology residency in 1980 in the University Hospital of Bologna, Italy, and then his Neurosurgical residency in the Bellaria Hospital of Bologna, Italy. He has served as an attending neurosurgeon in the Bellaria Hospital in Bologna, Italy, in the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the Bufalini Hospital in Cesena, Italy. He has served as a Professor of Neurosurgery in the University Hospital of Ancona, Italy, the University Hospital of Catania, Italy, and the Bufalini Hospital of Cesena, Italy. He is currently the Director and the Chairman of the Departments of Neurosurgery and the Emergency Medicine of the University Hospital of Parma, Italy. He has been honorably served as a member of the executive committee of the European Brain Injury Consortium, as Chairman of the Neurotrauma Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, as National Official Delegate of the Neurotrauma Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, as well as a member of a selected group of experts of the Brain Trauma Foundation. He is the current President of the Italian Neurosurgical Society. Prof. Servadei has contributed more than 150 high-impact articles in various, highly prestigious peer-reviewed journals, several monographies, and chapters in well-respected neurosurgical textbooks, and has been awarded with numerous grants and honors. He has served as the Director of the Trauma System Committee of the Regione Emilia Romagna, as the Director of Trauma Care of Region Emilia Romagna, as Member of the Italian National Commission for Guidelines Development, while he was the organizer and the Chief Clinical Officer for the development of the telemedicine system of the Regione Emilia Romagna.
He is now elect-president of WFNS for 2015-2017.
