Stefano Boriani

Dottor Stefano Boriani is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in spinal surgery at the Spinal Surgery Unit of Villa Erbosa in Bologna.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Bologna in 1976, where he later completed his specialization in Orthopedics and Traumatology in 1979.

Following his specialization, he collaborated for 20 years with the division led by Professor Campanacci at the Rizzoli Institute in Bologna, a reference center for the treatment of bone tumors. He began his subspecialty activity in the field of spinal tumors after training periods abroad.

In 1996, he became the head of the Spinal Surgery Division at Santa Corona Hospital in Pietra Ligure. He later served as the head of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Division at the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna from 1996 to 2009.

In 1997, he proposed a staging system for primitive tumors (WBB), which today serves as the primary reference in the field (with 588 citations).

After gaining extensive experience, he returned to the Rizzoli Institute in Bologna as the head of the Oncological and Degenerative Spinal Surgery Unit from 2009 to 2017, and then collaborated with the Galeazzi Hospital IRCCS from 2017 to 2023.

Currently, he is a contract professor at the University of Bologna in the Orthopedics and Traumatology specialization school, teaching vertebral oncology.

Dottor Boriani is a prolific author of scientific publications, boasting an H-index of 49 with a total of 11,401 citations from over 300 scientific articles in indexed journals.