Editor-in-Chief

Lavano Angelo

Lavano Angelo
Editor-in-Chief
Professor, School of Medicine and Surgery
Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy

Biography

Prof. Dr. Angelo Lavano received his Medicine and Surgery Graduate from the University of Naples, in 1981 and completed his neurosurgical training at the Neurosurgical Department of the University Hospital of Naples in 1986. He completed two years of fellowship training at Department of Neurosurgery. He joined the Division of Neurosurgery of the University Hospital of Catanzaro as an Assistant Professor and currently he is Chief of Neurosurgical Department/Functional and Stereaotactic Neurosurgery Division of the University Hospital of Catanzaro. Since 2011 is Full Professor of Neurosurgey, at the School of Medicine and Surgery , University “ Magna Graeciaâ€Â of Catanzaro and Teacher of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery at the Neurosurgical Training School of University of Catanzaro/ University Federico II of Naples. From 2011 he was President of Section of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery of Italian Society of Neurosurgery (SINch)

Research Interest

Neurosurgical treatment of pain, Surgical treatment of complicated, advanced Parkinson Disease with Motor Cortex Stimulation (MCS), Utility of the Intracranial Pressure Lumbar Monitoring in the Chronic Daily Headache , Transforamenal Sacral Nerve Stimulation (TSNS) in bladder dysfunctions an isolated pelvic pain syndrome, VNS in treatment of drug,resistant epilepsy, Cost-utility analysis of spinal cord stimulation in patient with failed back surgery syndrome, Lumbar Percutaneous Intradiscal Injection of Radiopaque Gelified Ethanol in Patients with Low Back and Radicular Pain, Deep Brain Stimulation for psychiatric disorders